Junior Automation Trainee
I worked as a Junior Automation Engineer Trainee at RML Ltd in Hamilton, New Zealand, in 2019. The work which I did there is described below:
• Understanding of Hardware Configuration for an Infant formula machine
• Camera Testing for the Infant formula machine by using Sherlock Software provided by the Camera company Teledyne Dalsa
• Understood the Sensor functionality for the Infant formula machine.
• Electrical Drawing updates for a cream cheese packing machine using EPLAN software.
• Developed Functional Descriptions for some line conveyors for feeding the Infant formula machine.
• Did PLC coding on RSLogix 5000 (Software provided by Rockwell Automation) of the conveyors based on the Functional description previously written.
• Developed HMI screen on Factory Talk Studio(Software for creating HMI provided by Rockwell Automation) for the line conveyors.
• Performed IO testing of the Infant formula machine alongside an RML Automation engineer.
• Performed Safety Validation of the Infant formal machine alongside an RML Automation engineer.
• Performed Commissioning of the Infant formula machine alongside an RML Automation engineer.
• Optimized Vision application for the Infant formula machine alongside an RML Automation engineer.
• Developed Functional Description for line conveyors around two case packing machines.
• Did PLC coding of the conveyors based on the Functional description previously written.
• HMI screen development for two case packing machine line conveyors.
• Introduction to Robot Studio. (ABB robot programming environment)
• Base code development in the virtual environment for a Robot to place lids on infant formula cans.
• Deployment of code from the virtual environment to a physical robot. • Robot code testing.