Malcolm Edwards Email & Phone Number

Wilton

Durham

Working with industry to implement energy savings. Design and installation of control systems / cabinets.Installation of commercial and domestic automation systems to enable energy savings

Billingham

South Wales

Lead engineering improvements across three separate manufacturing sites. Improve production output and factory facilitiesInvolved with layout and set up of new manufacturing factory in east England.

Uk, Ireland, Europe, Scandinavia And South Africa.

Commissioning and fault finding on ABB AC800m PLC's and sub components, ACS800, 550 & 355 Drives, Scada system and 800 series process panels.Project managed, installed and commissioned ABB based control systemsCarrying out energy usage monitoring working with clients to provide best solution to reduce energy on site / production equipment.Propose solution and draft recommendation to present to board.Work with Carbon trust to provide Energy Efficiency loans.Project Manage Installation of energy saving inverter drives on start delta starter systems on quench fans for Glass Toughening plants and installation and commissioning of new control systems.Worked with clients world wide.

Bishop Auckland

Carried out fault finding on PLC control systems for on site equipment. Various PLC systems in use, Siemens S5, S7, Omron, Allen Bradley and Osai equipment.Replacement of obsolete Allen Bradley control system with Osai S10 control system, replacement of Rockwell drives and motors with Osai servo drives and motors.Manage engineering and maintenance activities for large architectural glass processing plant.Design and implement new compressed air system, large enough to run convection system on new glass toughening plant.Implement power factor correction equipment.Design and implement inverter drive replacement of start / delta fan starters on glass toughening plant resulting in significant energy savings per year on, also resulting in reduced maintenance of fans.Project managed installation and commission of large architectural toughening plant on time in budget with minimum interruption to factory running.Project managed transfer of large architectural glass grinding equipment from Stuttgart to Bishop Auckland - on time in budget.Project managed transfer of large DGU line from Belgium to Bishop Auckland - on time in budget.Project managed transfer of glass toughening plant from Stuttgart to Bishop Auckland. Implemented PPM for all key equipment on site.

Darlington, United Kingdom

Management of maintenance activities on site.Improved reliability of large panel sizing and dressing line by actively promoting and putting into effect planned preventative maintenance. Reduction in downtime from 124 hours per month to less than 10 hours per month. Hands on PLC and control system fault finding and rectification. Modification of equipment plc software to improve reliability.Design and build automated stacking system including plc software for panel drilling robot.Improved compressed air reliability by carrying out monitoring usage and then sizing equipment to suit. Relocated compressors from three remote sites to one central location improving response time in event of system problems.Project managed installation of new paint line and removal from site of old paint equipment.Project managed installation of new saw line.Project managed new control system design and commissioning for clamping press.

Bishop Auckland

Electrical Supervisor for large glass processing plant, working on Glasstech and Efco furnaces along with in house designed furnaces and processing equipment.Working on a range of glass processing equipment producing products for automotive, domestic and architectural markets.Fault finding and rectification on various PLC systems, Siemens S5 & S7, Omron, Allen Bradley, Mitsubishi. Replacement of bespoke PLC with S7 200 system for glass grinding machine following system crash including writing of PLC software.