Souhair E.
Commissioning of the produced winding machines
Experience
May 2023 - Present
2 years 4 monthsWuppertal, Germany
Commissioning of the produced winding machines
Rayess for Automation and Drives
- Customer: Leimbach Maschinenbau.
- Commissioning of machines at home and abroad.
- Products and technologies used: Sinamics converters, Step 7 and TIA Portal version 17, sensors, pneumatic valves, WinCC Advanced.
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
1 monthRemscheid, Germany
Commissioning support SMS-Elotherm Remscheid
Rayess for Automation and Drives
- Customer: SMS-Elotherm.
- Commissioning support for induction furnace.
- Products and technologies used: our own high-power MW range converters for the induction furnace system, TIA Portal version 17, water pumps for cooling.
Dec 2022 - Oct 2023
11 monthsCharleston, United States
Commissioning support Bosch plant Charleston
Rayess for Automation and Drives
- Customer: Hedrich GmbH (onsite at Bosch plant Charleston).
- Impregnation machine for E-motor stators. The machine software wasn’t production-ready but had to be integrated into the line. I supported by keeping production running in case of errors by bypassing software. I was the only one working on the software daily, identified all missing error messages and implemented them.
- Products and technologies used: Siemens motors, Sinamics S120, G120, TIA Portal version 17, WinCC, load cells, sensors etc.
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
2 monthsCologne, Germany
Modernization of an exhaust system for a paint line
Rayess for Automation and Drives
- Customer: Apteg mbH.
- 26 SEW drives +37 kW and 22 kW Weg motors + differential pressure sensors measuring before and after a filter. Sensor triggers a message when filter needs replacing.
- My task was to implement all drives in software, commission and control them.
- Adapt the visualization. Two lines: basecoat and clearcoat.
- On basecoat, replaced 25 motors without drives with 15 new ones of equal power. Clearcoat had 11 drives. Implemented all pressure sensors in software and visualized each sensor value.
- Programmed and visualized a basic pressure control at customer’s request (not a real closed loop).
- Products and technologies used: SEW Eurodrive, Weg motors, TIA Portal version 14, WinCC and differential pressure sensors, CPU S7-1500.
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
2 monthsKassel, Germany
Software change of existing TIA program to VW standard
Rayess for Automation and Drives
- Customer: VW plant.
- Production line has stations where gearboxes are built and tested step by step, transported by conveyors. Each station detects the product by RFID scanner and light barriers. Other functions like lifting the belt, lowering Bosch screwdrivers and other actuators are automated. Sequences were programmed in S7 Graph. HMI Lite was used for visualization.
- Products and technologies used: S7 CPU 1500, ET200, Sinamics G120, TP Panel Comfort, Bosch screwdriver system, RFID readers, light grids and barriers, Kistler drive.
Apr 2022 - May 2022
2 monthsEssen, Germany
Software development – top cleaning machine
Rayess for Automation and Drives
- Customer: SSS Group.
- A crane brings pots up to 820 kg to a portal for positioning.
- Pots are washed and dried, then removed by crane.
- System also has a disinfection cycle starting Sunday morning and ending Monday morning.
- Products and technologies used: Siemens control, SEW converters.
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
1 monthGermany
Extension of manual mode of a lifting vehicle
Rayess for Automation and Drives
- Customer: AS Tec.
- Manual mode semi-automated so customer can lift the vehicle to a set height in manual mode under defined pressure and time.
- Products and technologies used: Siemens control, SEW converters.
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
2 monthsBottrop, Germany
Modernization from S5 cards to S7-400 CPU
Rayess for Automation and Drives
- Customer: Arcelor Mittal Prosper.
- Modernization work: replacing S5 DI/O cards with new cards compatible with S7-400 CPU. All signals were forced by the PLC during changeover to avoid production stops.
- Implemented new safety light barriers, including safety cards in the PLC rack. Entirely programmed in S7.
- Created hardware configuration in S7. Safety programming of new barriers and integration into safety logic.
- Products and technologies used: Siemens control, S7 ET200 cards.
May 2021 - Feb 2022
10 monthsNordhorn, Germany
Software development of a robot-laser deburring cell for aluminum formats
Rayess for Automation and Drives
- Customer: Wink Stanzwerkzeuge.
- Sheets of various formats move on conveyors programmed with step chain in S7 Graph.
- FANUC robot picks sheets from the last conveyor and places them on the laser table. Robot waits for PLC commands; has a safety card linked to PLC safety.
- PLC controls laser tables for positioning under the laser to cut sheets.
- After cutting, tables exit, and robot takes sheets to deburring portal.
- Products and technologies used: Siemens control with safety-S7 CPU1500, TIA Portal version 16, Festo pressure sensors, FANUC robot, RFID reader.
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
7 monthsSales representative for high-end motion system solutions
- (Pacdrive control) used in packaging machines.
May 2018 - Jun 2019
1 year 2 monthsDirector of Sales
Loick Biowertstoff GmbH
- Built a sales network for packaging fillers and granulates at home and abroad, focused on end-sales of extrusion machines for foaming granulates (Biogranulat 100).
- Managed key accounts.
- Led the sales department “Farmfill” for packaging materials with leadership role.
Apr 2013 - Oct 2017
4 years 7 monthsAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Business Development Manager for electric drives
LD CoC Siemens LLC
- Supported existing partners daily in large drive business.
- Tracked and implemented LD business strategy in Iran, Pakistan and Levant countries (Iraq-Lebanon-Jordan-Syria).
- Conducted customer presentations and marketing activities.
- Improved competence of customer service, BU and sales reps in Iran, Pakistan and Siemens partners on LD products through training and workshops.
- Prepared product inquiries on technical sizing and pricing.
- LD products include all MV and LV drives and converters.
Sep 2011 - Apr 2013
1 year 8 monthsEssen, Germany
Sales engineer for mechanical drive technology
Siemens AG
- Prepared technical offers for the complete drive chain from converter to gearbox and provided technical customer advice.
Aug 2005 - Feb 2010
4 years 7 monthsErlangen, Germany
Commissioning engineer for electric drives
Siemens AG
- Modernization of a steel plate furnace line in Spain-Alicante: supported Siemens Spain colleagues in commissioning several controlled DC drives (SIMOREG).
- Container crane Beirut/Lebanon: IBS support for automation and drive tech of a container crane.
- SPEED SURAT/India: IBS support on a fiber/polyester plant in India. Commissioned plant first uncoupled from mechanical parts, then loaded and unloaded.
- Container cranes in Valencia/Spain: IBS support commissioning container cranes. Masterdrives converter tech with parallel inverters (master-slave).
- Polyester plant in Klaipeda/Lithuania: commissioned several Masterdrives converters. I was alone on site.
- Film plant (Lindauer Dornier) in Penang/Malaysia: commissioned various Masterdrive converters for fans.
- Overhead beam furnace acceptance at Loher in Ruhstorf: commissioned a SINAMICS S120 with ALM active line module feed unit.
- Service for Remacut in Abu Dhabi/UAE: service assignment for Sinamics S150 on a barge.
- BRIC-Drive (Sinamics VM) project: converters for low-cost markets (Brazil, Russia, India, China). Participated in execution, management and testing of key functions and measurements.
- SIBAS 32 control: developed a software platform for electric locomotives.
Aug 2003 - Jul 2005
2 yearsGifhorn, Germany
System test engineer for engine control units
IAV GmbH
- Performed and programmed software tests for engine control units and lambda probes (Tcl-Tk, LabVIEW).
Summary
Many years of experience in electrical drive technology
Very good skills in
Good drive technology knowledge (induction asynchronous motors)
Converter technology (Sinamics G120, G150, S120, S150, Masterdrives, Micromaster and Simoreg DC-Master)
Simatic S7 and TIA Portal (CPU 300, 1500 and 1200)
S7_Graph, SCL, AWL knowledge
WinCC Flexible, Advanced and SCADA
SIBAS 32 control
LabVIEW knowledge
Mechanical drive technology, Flender products
Pacdrive system (ELAU control)
Robotics programming (FANUC robots)
C_Schap
Customer oriented
Marketing, sales and business development
Strategic thinking
Pricing and market understanding
Very communicative, resilient and presentable.
Languages
Arabic
NativeGerman
AdvancedEnglish
AdvancedFrench
ElementaryEducation
Oct 1998 - Jun 2003
Fachhochschule Hannover
Engineering Computer Scientist · Electrical Engineering · Hanover, Germany · good
Sep 1994 - Jun 1995
Studienkolleg Münster
General University Entrance Qualification · Münster, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Training in PLC programming with TIA Portal
WBS Training AG
Advanced training in project and process management
Rhein Akademie Düsseldorf
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