Senior PLC Programmer
I am a freelancer automation engineer specialised in full stack programming and commissioning of new manufacturing machinery in the automotive sector. Based in Landshut, Bavaria.
Advantages of having me in your project:
Experience
Starting my journey in 2016, I worked on many projects for well known clients like BMW, Audi, MAN and Dräxlmaier. The bulk of my experience comes from the automotive final assembly lines, body shops, robot cells and special machinery. At first I worked at Vescon Automation in Munich for 5 years. The specialisation there was large factory wide intralogistics. This gave me a good skill base and set my bar for software quality very high, since there is zero tolerance for errors in final assembly.
Afterwards I moved to Teccad Engineering and stayed there for 3 years working on smaller but much more intricate special machinery. This widened my technological spectrum as the company small size gave me the freedom to create my own code architecture. This made me proficient in full stack PLC programming starting from the lowest level of peripheral hardware communication to the highest level of factory control over SQL Databases and other server based systems over TCP/IP.
I am always looking forward to a new challenge, the link below contains my project work so far.
Standardisation
After using standards like BMW TMO V3, TKB, PL7 and Audi VASS I understood the value of good software architecture. Reading and reusing a lot of foreign code taught me to use its best practices while developing my own. By focusing on scalability, readability and avoiding any code repetitions the human error rate is reduced, while modularity brings execution stability and ease of support. Any programming problem can be solved by breaking it apart in separate function blocks that are connected in a clear and simple way. Meanwhile using tools like TIA Portal SivArc with these blocks creates a working HMI in minutes further increasing efficiency. Applying this methodical approach in the early development stages requires effort, but it sets any project on a clear path to success.
Commissioning diversity
Every machine has its own set of hardware requirements, that brings the challenge of learning something new every time. I am most experienced and efficient in TIA Portal, but also completed projects with B&R Automation Studio, Phoenix Contact Pc Worx and S7 Classic.
My hardware commissioning history goes as follows:
Drives
SEW(Movisuite), Siemens, Festo(Automation Studio), Bosch(IndraDrive), B&R Acopos
Cameras
Keyence, Cognex with OCR, Wenglor, SensoPart, Pepperl+fuchs
Lasers
Trumpf, Gravotech
RFID Carriers
Siemens Moby, Euchner EKS, Pepperl+fuchs
Robots
KUKA
Communication
Profinet, Profibus, Powerlink, X2X, TCP/IP, RS232
Safety
Sick, Leuze, Euchner, Pilz
