International Technical Consultant
Schneider Electric
Total years of experience :20 years, 9 Months
Current Key Responsibilities:
- Proposing an end user requirement specification.
- Supporting development and implementation of Digitalization / Industry 4.0 applications for end-user.
- Proposing innovation programs and lead a technical team proving the concept (POC) until actual implementation on a real site.
- Supporting R&D team in the development of new application or improvement of active applications.
- Assist in the creation of technical material, such as application preferred implementation, knowledge base articles, technical guides, system technical notes, whitepapers, etc
- Act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in supporting the end user dream become a reality.
- Act as a bridge between OT and IT departments of the client organization.
- Leading cross-border technical resources in the context of international projects.
- Own a technical part of the Schneider relationship with end users and ensure the continuity of the project with services.
- Mentoring and coaching local ESx Architects, distribute application notes and success stories.
Achievement Highlights:
1. Initiated a major capital Control System Migration project budgeted up to more than US$6 million. The scope is to upgrade almost 200 Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley PLC5 processors and their associated HMI/SCADA system into Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley ControlLogix platform and Factory Talk View Platform. The project is expected to complete within five years without dedicated plant shutdown.
2. Finished the very own blue-print documents from the scratch of a real-time automatic tracking and system reporting application that detecting, analyzing and reporting process parameters deviation for supporting operational decision making. This system runs based on PIMS hystorical data.
3. Improved company standards with regard to PLC cabinet specification and PLC logic code writing by introducing Add-On templates for motor controls.
Key Responsibilities:
- Comply with all approved engineering procedures, standards and policies in Engineering Project area with primarily focus on the aspects of Enviromental, Health and Safety (EHS).
- Perform safety audits and safety risk assessment to ensure safety standards are maintained or improved.
- Design and review of automation, control and instrumentation engineering work from initial conception and specification through commissioning phase of the project with good quality of deliverables, meets company standards and National / International codes & standards.
- Develop business case (BC), and capital appropriation request (CAR) including the feasibility studies, economic evaluation, bill of material, schedule and EHS evaluation.
- Identify, develop initiatives improvement for process plant instrumentation and automation infrastructures to be able to operate with high reliability and availability to achieve company goals.
- Identify, develop, justify and implement cost saving initiatives for engineering work & equipment in area of process plant.
- Identify system obsolescence and developing strategies for migration or replacement accordingly.
- Develop and review of Engineering Work Package (EWP), Bill of Material (BoM), Purchase Request (PR), Commissioning Procedure, Risk Assessment, HAZOP Study, and other engineering related documents.
- Resolve technical issues during project execution and complete commissioning after project is completed, to ensure the project meets the planned objectives.
- Provide technical and engineering support for process plant operation and maintenance team in keeping the sustainability of process plant operation including support on regular preventive maintenance shutdown.
- Maintain engineering drawing records (as-built), instrumentation index (loop number), and instrumentation cabinet index.
- Deliver mentoring assistance among automation junior engineers and maintenance technicians to improve design and troubleshooting method, quality and time.
Job descriptions :
1. Provided technical assistant to operational and maintenance departments for problem solving and root cause analysis.
2. Implemented engineered solution related to control optimization of process plant to achieve production target in safe and reliable manner at low cost.
3. Assisted project manager to complete operating and capital project since from initiation phase until completion within schedule, within budget and deliver within project scope.
Achievement Highlight:
1. Completed nine projects of improvement & sustainable capital, and sixteen projects of operating & maintenance. Undertook Project Engineer’s roles and engineer coordinator roles for assisting Project Manager in managing projects.
2. Involved in basic design, pre-commissioning, and commissioning of SPLC power stabilization project. This project enables the company to record the all-time highest quarterly production following another record of becoming the first smelter in the world commissioned at 90MW.
3. Continued improvement of the online electrical insulation monitoring system of furnace-roof thus successfully decrease more than 50% of unnecessary plant breakdown. The furnace-roof delay was previously the worst delay, but soon become the least significant delay after completion of the improvement.
4. Performed key roles as quality control coordinator of PLC panel assembly and software commissioning supervisor in the successfully recovery of process plant control system following a fire incident resulted burnt-out of seven PLC cabinets.
Job descriptions :
1. Provided engineering expertise in selecting, sizing and installing field-instrumentation devices (Thermocouple, Flowmeter, Transmitter, etc).
2. Collated engineering work package (EWP), BoM, material specification, engineering drawing/diagram, IO list, commissioning procedure, cable schedule, instrument loop index, etc.
3. Developed and maintained PLC logic program as well as HMI for engineering and operation.
Achievement Highlight:
1. Successfully completed six projects of improvement and sustainable capital, and seven projects of operating and maintenance. Some of the projects namely furnace side-wall cooling block installation, cooling tower repair, control room consolidation, and auto-retract camera installation at furnace smelter.
2. Successfully improved the online electrical insulation monitoring system of furnace-roof thus decreases 35% of unnecessary plant breakdown that was valued at US$ 3.2 Million.
3. Successfully implemented a HMI based automatic early warning system given control room operator an opportunity to avoid unnecessary plant breakdown.
Job Descriptions :
1. Led software development group to produce reliable software for SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) program, Distributed Control System (DCS) program, and Human machine Interface (HMI) program, according to specification provided by customer.
2. Coordinated instrumentation team and liaise with whole groups within the project organization upon activities of pre-commissioning, commissioning, and start-up.
Achievement Highlight:
1. Successfully started-up the Area-10 SC Automatic Well-test and degassing station after was abandoned for years due to prolonged technical problem of control valves.
2. Identified and resolved the prolonged technical problem of Area-10 SCADA system by developing a proprietary proxy application using Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Access and associated connections to Oracle database.
3. Developed a proprietary software for online reporting of well measurement results as part of SCADA well monitoring project.
Job Descriptions :
Work as full-time software and application developer.
Achievement Highlight:
1. Developed a web-based Academic Information System by compromising of PHP, MS-SQL database, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Crystal Reports Application.
2. Successfully developed software of retail payment and warehouse management by utilizing Microsoft Visual Basic and MySQL database.
Job Descriptions :
1. Developed web-based application.
2. Developed and maintained company intranet system.
3. Maintained Hand-Key Absence Application and Business Process and Control System (BPCS) application.
4. Maintained MS-SQL Server 2000 database.
Achievement Highlight:
1. Successfully developed a web-based employee performance application by compromising of PHP programming, Crystal Reports Application, MS-SQL database and AS400 computing machine.
RCNP Level 1 / EQF Level 7. Aligned with INCOSE (International Council of System Engineering) and TOGAF (The Open Architecture Framework)