William Harker Email & Phone Number

Automation, Advanced Process Control, Scheduling and Discrete SimulationSpecialties: Process Optimisation and Capacity Modelling

Listed skills include Simulations, Automation, Process Optimization, Process Control, and 12 others.

• Owner

  Optimation Systems

  Aug 2007 - Present - Johannesburg Area, South Africa

  Optimation Systems, founded by William Harker in 2007, is focused on developing advanced process control solutions for the mining and manufacturing industries. The company is vendor independent and utilizes various products to improve throughput and extract efficiencies from plant processes (eg Furnaces, Mineral Separation Plants)Some of the products used include:- Gensym G2- Rockwell Contrologix/Allen Bradley PLC's- VB.NET (VB2010)- Excel/VBA- Connecting all of the above to OPC Servers or SQL databases.In addition to (Advanced) Process Control, Optimation Systems offers process modelling capabilities to model any discrete process. Before developing or expanding processes, a model can be developed to provide insights into: throughput, bottlenecks, utilization, capacity and just about any variable exposed in a dynamic simulation.The final offering of Optimation Systems is in general Process Control and Automation. Automating plant process with Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC's) and PID loop tuning is another service offered by the company. In many plants there are optimization opportunities that can be exploited by the plant PLC's. In this case automation becomes optimization or .... Optimation Systems.