Process Engineering Specialist
GreyLogix Brasil, Process Engineering Specialist
FLorianópolis, SC, Brazil | August, 2018 - October, 2022
GreyLogix used to be an Industrial Automation company, but today it really is an Industrial Engineering company, doing everything from process/plant design, to industrial data analysis.
When one of my bosses at Tubanharon left the company in order to develop a Chemical Process Engineering department at GreyLogix, he invited me to join him in this new adventure.
Here I did a lot (and I mean a lot!!!) of different things, from plant design, to explosion risk assessments, to field services, and even helped develop a mechanical ventilator to fight the COVID pandemic.
However, the projects I loved the most had one thing in common: they all involved programming. I'll describe some of them below.
- COMOS-TIA Portal Integration
- COMOS and TIA Portal are two softwares sold by Siemens. They hired us to develop a COMOS plugin that made it exchange data with TIA Portal. This was done with C# and VBScript.
- Flame detector
- This was a PoC I developed for a O&G client. It detects whether a gas flaring system is lit or not, using a camera and RNN's. This was done using Python (TensorFlow) and MATLAB.
- COMOS Administration
- COMOS is an object-oriented database for industrial engineering. I am one of the admins of this system for GreyLogix.
- Digital twins
- Digital twins are digital representations of plants, which aim to rigorously predict the behavior of the plant under different conditions, or even to train plant operators. We develop digital twins using MATLAB, Simulink, and Simscape
- Scripting, lots of scripting
- I have written innumerable scripts to automate or at least facilitate mine and my colleague's works. These scripts are usually running inside COMOS and are written in VBScript
You see, the activities listed above are not the main focus of my work as a Chemical Engineering Specialist. But these projects definitely are the ones I loved the most. This is why I now want to make a shift into the technology industry and make tech my everyday.