Volker — Automation Engineer

I am a passionate designer and integrator of control system applications. My goals are to form competent teams together with my clients to generate a robust but customized solution. I have more than 20 years of experience in the design of control systems for individual machines and industrial plants.
My expertise includes sampling and sample preparation systems for quality control applications in the cement industry.
I work mainly with Rockwell and Siemens based control systems.

I'm responsible for generating the proposals and executing the engineering tasks, including the startup of the machine or plant control systems. Some of my larger plant control systems projects are in the USA, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

Areas of Expertise (General):
- Project management skills
- Leading controls and instrumentation teams
- Good listener and trainer
- Performing factory acceptance tests (FAT)
- Providing startup support
- Working internationally
- German as native language

Specific Skills:
- Creating designs for machine, plant and quality control systems
- Generating proposal documents
- Creating equipment and process specifications
- Generating P&IDs
- Generating network diagrams
- Writing functional descriptions
- Generating instrumentation loop diagrams
- Designing control enclosures in ACAD / ACADElectrical
- Creating PLC applications
- Creating DCS/HMI applications
- Upgrading existing control systems
- Applying Virtual Technology like VSphere to Control System installations
- Bridging areas of Information Technology (IT) and Operation (OT)