James Kent Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tn, Us

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Development of custom SPC systems involving integration with plant quality systems, wireless measurement systems, automated sample collection and time based quality sample collection. Integration of SPC solutions at a multi plant scale with injection of plant level data into AWS Snowflake with custom defined quality reports.Requirements derivation, planning, and development of MRP type systems involving integration with customer orders from legacy ERP systems to generate hundreds of… Show more Development of custom SPC systems involving integration with plant quality systems, wireless measurement systems, automated sample collection and time based quality sample collection. Integration of SPC solutions at a multi plant scale with injection of plant level data into AWS Snowflake with custom defined quality reports.Requirements derivation, planning, and development of MRP type systems involving integration with customer orders from legacy ERP systems to generate hundreds of thousands of custom orders with high levels of customization, item and inventory dependencies, and process based execution timing and sequencing.Development of traceability solutions for manufacturers requiring operations and inventory data married between multiple independent processes across different physical locations to build out an entire history of lots of parts along with the orders and final packaged product being shipped to customer.Utilizing analytics software to build golden profiles of chemical processes to evaluate and predict process reliability and create process setpoints. Includes the development of custom communications packages to pass this data as 3 Sigma bounds into production systems.Working in a technical lead role to coordinate completion of user stories, development roadmaps, project estimating ,and stakeholder meetings to support long term development as embedded engineers within client companies utilizing Agile methods. Show less

Nashville, Tn

Custom and Sepasoft based manufacturing execution system development leveraging Ignition from Inductive Automation to provide OEE, SPC, and Recipe and Changeover management. Creating both turnkey solutions within a waterfall development cycle as well as working as an embedded development engineer in large organizations and cooperating with their existing agile based teams.Conversion of legacy SCADA systems and development of new SCADA systems, working closely with clients to develop… Show more Custom and Sepasoft based manufacturing execution system development leveraging Ignition from Inductive Automation to provide OEE, SPC, and Recipe and Changeover management. Creating both turnkey solutions within a waterfall development cycle as well as working as an embedded development engineer in large organizations and cooperating with their existing agile based teams.Conversion of legacy SCADA systems and development of new SCADA systems, working closely with clients to develop solutions meeting unique data collection, reporting, and machine control use cases across industries including Food and Beverage, Pharmaceuticals, Water and Wastewater, Consumer Goods, Aerospace, and others.Integration of existing automation assets into SCADA and MES systems including Allen Bradley, Siemens, Omron PLCs and auxiliary devices such as check-weighers, scales, wireless measurement systems, remote RTUs, barcode scanner, machine vision inspection, etc.Implementation and integration with multiple database and historian systems - focus on creation of database and schemas to support custom developed MES solutions as well as integrating SCADA systems with OSI PI and Wonderware historians. Show less

Bowling Green Area, Ky

Develop and support HMI projects for process control and diagnostics across iFix, WinCC, and Ignition.Implement process automation changes across Siemens S7 300/400/1500, GE PAC/90-30s, Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLCs, and FORTRAN based manufacturing execution systems.Diagnose and correct systemic reliability or process quality problems and implement automation programming to support process.Work with outside engineering firms to design/implement replacements for… Show more Develop and support HMI projects for process control and diagnostics across iFix, WinCC, and Ignition.Implement process automation changes across Siemens S7 300/400/1500, GE PAC/90-30s, Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLCs, and FORTRAN based manufacturing execution systems.Diagnose and correct systemic reliability or process quality problems and implement automation programming to support process.Work with outside engineering firms to design/implement replacements for deprecated automation systems as well as new installations and commissioning.Responsible for development, deployment, and maintenance of data systems that support process control and diagnostics such as SCADAs, iba products, OPC UA connections (Kepware, Matrikon), Cognex ( Ametek) SIS systems, IP Cameras & NAS, and VM Ware virtualized server cluster.Handle day to day systems administration tasks for both physical and virtualized servers including troubleshooting and maintenance of various automation or process tools such as software PLCs or Thinclients/Thinserver. Maintain up time of components across our Windows stack (.NET, IIS, SQL). Show less

Logan Area, Ky

Contribute to the operation and improvement of control systems for both finishing and reversing mills in Hot Rolling Department.Troubleshoot and maintain PLCs (Siemens, Allen Bradley) for production, safety, and testing equipment.Develop human machine interfaces (HMIs) for mill operators ,process reliability engineering teams ,and general technicians .Programming and development of Level II communications software between mill equipment and databases.

Cookeville, Tn

Maintained and operated industrial and consumer 3d printers to fulfill contracts with research organizations, private companies, and academic institutions. Taught series of beginner 3d design classes to local school system officials to help implement more technology in the classroom.Performed inventory management and resource allocation for laboratory materials and equipment.Utilized design skills to create 3d reproductions and designs of historical artifacts and… Show more Maintained and operated industrial and consumer 3d printers to fulfill contracts with research organizations, private companies, and academic institutions. Taught series of beginner 3d design classes to local school system officials to help implement more technology in the classroom.Performed inventory management and resource allocation for laboratory materials and equipment.Utilized design skills to create 3d reproductions and designs of historical artifacts and engineering equipment for university departments.Functioned as an instructor to youth for summer Maker Camp curriculum. Show less

Russellville, Ky

Focused on designing and improving existing systems on our hot rolling mill to add additional levels of validation and avoid unexpected downtime.Created controls through Siemens PLCs and Fortran subroutines. Development of 5 major Siemens S7 Programs.Designed multiple Human Machine Interface screens for mill operators and mechanics.Applied signal analysis to design new diagnostic checks in hot rolling mill. Created over 160 new checks, approximately 60 percent of the… Show more Focused on designing and improving existing systems on our hot rolling mill to add additional levels of validation and avoid unexpected downtime.Created controls through Siemens PLCs and Fortran subroutines. Development of 5 major Siemens S7 Programs.Designed multiple Human Machine Interface screens for mill operators and mechanics.Applied signal analysis to design new diagnostic checks in hot rolling mill. Created over 160 new checks, approximately 60 percent of the entire system. Show less

Collecting and Analyzing data for Electrical Component validation reportsCollecting data and utilizing statistical methods to identify and correct manufacturing line errors.Performing verification tests for suspect inventory and maintaining high levels of quality control.Building test fixtures for prototype designs.