Automation Engineer Electrical

YASSER ELBEHIRY

B.Sc., M.Sc., P.Eng.

*** ******** ****., ******, ** K4A 1B1, Mobile: 647-***-**** Email: **************@*****.***

Electrical Engineer

Areas Of Expertise

FAT (Factory Acceptance Test), SAT (Site Acceptance Test)

Contract revision and follow-up

Risk Assessment, What if analysis

Breakdown analysis for electrical equipment

Root cause analysis

Engineering team management (Team of engineers and technicians)

Preparing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)

Spare parts management, defining criticality and Min\Max amounts

Creating/updating maintenance procedures

Organizing training on newly installed equipment

Managing the project from design until startup and commissioning

MV transformers (230KV to 13.8kv)

MV Substation Automation

Substation maintenance planning

Rienhausen tap changers

Flicker Control Operation (Combination of Saturable Reactor and Capacitors)

Automation systems design and development for steelmaking

PLC Programming, Siemens SIMATIC S7 S400, GE Proficy Machine Edition, Schnider Unity Pro

IBA Historian

Troubleshooting and maintenance

Process Control, MES (Manufacturing Execution System), analysis, design & programming)

Professional Membership

P. Eng. Member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario.

Professional Experience

Senior Electrical Engineer\Meltshop Electrical Reliability Engineer July 2015- Now

IVACO Rolling Mills Ltd., L'Orignal, ON

Responsible for maintaining the reliability of the Meltshop electrical equipment.

Asset management of the Meltshop substation electrical equipment.

Provide engineering assistance (concepts, designs, feasibility studies, preventive engineering, etc.) to the Production and Maintenance departments.

Reviews procedures to operate or maintain plant equipment, and reviews safety procedures for equipment failures and repairs.

Review practices and equipment performance. Recommends changes to the process and equipment.

For engineering projects, carries out studies and defines project scope and designs, defines materials and equipment specifications, prepares estimates and budgets, coordinates construction and directs contractors and tradespersons, prepares operating and start-up procedures, and trains operating and maintenance personnel.

Approves new equipment designs and modifications of existing practices, ensuring adherence to government codes and regulations.

Ensures that electrical drawings are updated in coordination with Drafting personnel.

Performs engineering studies and conducts non-routine tests to troubleshoot faulty equipment or to solve technical problems.

Assists maintenance departments in troubleshooting electrical/electronic-related equipment issues.

Achievements: -

New Transformers Integration into Substation

Aging transformers, T1 & T2, are being replaced with new ones. The main challenge is to integrate the new transformers in the old substation. Drawings for the existing control, protection, and paralleling circuits. A complete analysis of the existing system is being done. New interconnection drawings will be created to connect new transformers with substations. Communication between the transformers’ signals and the load controller PLC will be established. Finally, commissioning and energizing will be done.

Ladle Slag Detection Project, AMEPA

Slag detection is a major process problem in the steel-making industry. Mixing slag with molten steel deteriorates the quality of the final product and destroys refractories. I have been assigned the task of installing, commissioning, and integrating the AMEPA ladle slag detection system into the continuous casting machine process control system. PLC and HMI programming have been done to integrate the system into our industrial automation network. Communication (PROFIBUS and Ethernet) has been established between the slag detection system and process control network to exchange data. The project was a complete success. The operation was smooth. System integration was a success. We managed to exchange data and receive the status of the slag detection system during operation.

BAGHOUSE (Fume Treatment Plant) Optimization

Energy saving is the BAGHOUSE Optimization project's main target. To achieve this task, we are planning to automatically control the percentage of opening of Meltshop plant fume dampers, control the speeds of medium voltage suction motors, and burn the dioxins and furans organic particles. I have been assigned the task of reviewing PLC programming, instrumentation, and drawings of Consteel and Baghouse. The quenching tower area of the Consteel plant has been completely recommissioned, new sensors have been added, and A lot of modifications have been made in Consteel and BAGHOUSE PLCs. The drawings have been reviewed and modified. It is still an ongoing project.

Operating hot billets in the billet conditioning machine

The main target is to be able to operate hot billets until they reach the final inspection table. The main challenge is the very high temperature of the hot billets. It can reach up to 470 C. Such a temperature can easily destroy photoelectric cells, which define the exact location at which the billet will be stopped on the inspection roller table. We had to investigate the options for new types of sensors that can measure the distance of the approaching hot billet. A laser distance sensor has been employed. A laser beam comes out from the sensor and the reflection of it from the billet cross-section of the hot billet defines the distance traveled by the billet on the roller table. At a certain set-point billet is stopped.

IBA Historian

Participated with the IT team in the implementation of the IBA system. IBA is a historian server to keep the process variables for long periods, prepare process tag lists, do the PLC programming to enable IBA historians to read from PLC, and participate in configuring plant PLCs and controllers on the IBA server.

Automation & Instrumentation Engineering Manager April 2006- June 2014

AlRajhi Steel, Jeddah, KSA

Led Automation & Instrumentation team (Junior Engineers, Foremen and technicians)

Developed and enhanced the performance of MES, SCADA, PLC, and Instrumentation with the team

Determined requirements (Technical Specs, Modifications and Data)

Managed projects, defined technical specifications and test procedures, reviewed contracts

Wrote work standards for non-routine automation and instrumentation tasks as a part of the company's ISO system

Worked closely with other departments to confirm the success of the integration of the required modifications

Achievements: -

Supervised Meltshop plant startup, FAT, SAT, commissioning, proposed modifications, and test procedures for MES, SCADA, PLCs, and instrumentations

Enhanced and modified PLC programs and stations (software & hardware)

Enhanced the performance of the existing InTouch SCADA stations, added new functionalities, modified existing pages, and wrote programming code under the InTouch development environment

Built Customized InTouch SCADA monitoring stations for management

Proposed, defined technical requirements and commissioned Wonderware Historian server 10.0: One of the main problems was the retention period of the process data (30 days) on each HMI station

Extended plant Industrial Ethernet networks (TCP/IP) to the administration offices: Wireless network technology was employed to get over the obstacle of the long distance between the plant and the management offices. Managers had access to the plant network

Designed customized production reports as requested by the production department. Delphi 7 code of the MES reporting tool (Rep_Creator) was modified to add report creation subroutines and functions

Built Customized MES monitoring and report generation stations for management.

Participated in upgrading the FTP (Fume Treatment Plant) in the MS plant revised contracts, defined technical specs, transferred MCC, and PLC panels, re-commissioned all the panels and instrumentations, added necessary modifications (New functionalities, and new pages) to the SCADA system and connected the new PLC to the plant Industrial Ethernet network.

Participated in efforts to successfully acquire occupational health and safety management systems OHSAS 18001 for health and safety. Risk assessment had been done. Standard forms and procedures had been prepared.

Chief Automation Engineer July 2001- April 2006

ALEZZ STEEL, Egypt, Sadat City,

Designed, developed, and commissioned MES of rolling mills plant

Designed, developed, and commissioned new HMI\SCADA stations of rolling mills

Trained operators and engineers on the new applications

Achievements

SCADA Projects

Designed complete preparation terminals (SCADA& Process control stations) for mill areas, to replace the old SCADA stations. Access 2000 and iFix Dynamics were used to achieve this task. The programming language was VBA (Visual Basic for Application) under the iFix Dynamics development environment. The project included plant mimics graphic design and rewriting VBA codes. These stations were programmed, tested, commissioned and operated in ALEZZ steel. Also, training was organized and given to the operators.

MES project

The MES Project had been developed from scratch by the automation team. I had the honor to be a member. iFix server had been employed to build MES. VBA under iFix had given us the facility to build VB code to communicate with the MES ORACLE database through ADO. Communication with the real-time data in Siemens PLC was done by the iFix I/O driver. All MES clients’ stations had been designed through iFix using VBA controls

Developed an automatic labeling system. iFix Server Scheduler was employed to achieve the task. An automatic labeling system generates the final product labels. Product data printed on the label was acquired from final product data stored in the MES Oracle database server

MES client stations were developed using VBA under iFix dynamics for all plant areas. Starting from basic material tracking in PLC, up to designing and developing final user interfaces in client stations

Upgraded the roll shop (Rolling Rings Workshop) application, built with VB6. This project enabled the workshop people to track all the movement of rolling rings. It also enabled them to create reports

Equipment installation and commissioning and the startup of ALEZZ STEEL REBARS rolling mills

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