Afzal Khan

About Afzal Khan

7 years of continuous professional experience in industrial automation, with a focus on Software & Hardware design and specification, Safety control systems ESD, PLC, SCADA, and HMI.Successfully executed major projects with Customers such as Reliance Industries Ltd, Dangote Oil Refinery Corporation, Unilever, Qatar Oasis, Pepsico, Wipro Waters, Blow group etc.At Schneider Electric, I am currently employed as the Deputy Manager for Engineering projects, primarily with ESD safety systems.Mainly in charge of all Hardware & Software, system, and cabinet design and production related to ESD, as well as logic preparation and site commissioning tasks for projects. •Preparing System Definition, System installation, Engineering Workstation, Operator Workstation, etc.•Setting up the ESD control database for standard loops, complex logic loops, and refinery unit interlocks.My current key responsibilities involves -•ESD Logic development as per Cause & Effects, Interlocks Trip and its voting logic Critical and Complex Loops.•Serial Communication between Multiple ESD nodes Peer to Peer and DCS system.•Evaluate input from customers and produce TQ, coordinating technical concerns with the customer\'s engineers.•Preparing ESD logic as per Interlock and representing it graphically for the Foxboro DCS Evo control system/Control HMI, which includes Cause & Effect, data logs, alarms, trends, and process graphics.•Work method preparation, hardware and software, FAT, IFAT, SAT, and function design standards (FDS) for graphics are all included.•Conducting in the system\'s complete Factory acceptance test (FAT) •Final Commissioning at Site SAT. Software Proficiency -Safety Systems-Tristation 1131 (version 3.1.7 - 5.6.1)-Safety PLC - TRICONEX System) PLC Programming Softwares: TIA V15, V16 (Siemens), STEP-7 MicroWIN Smart (Siemens), RS Logix 500 (Allen-Bradley), Studio (Allen-Bradley) RSLogix (Allen Bradley). EcoStruxure Machine Expert (Schneider Electric), Ecostruxure Control Expert (Schneider Electric), CX-Programmer (Omron). SCADA/HMI: Simatic WINCC,TIA V15, V16 (Siemens), FactoryTalk View Studio Machine Edition (Allen-Bradley). Vijeo Designer Basic 1.2 (Schneider Electric), Vijeo Designer 6.2 (Schneider Electric). NBDesigner (Omron), DOPSoft 2.3, 4.0 (Delta) AC Drives & SERVO Drives: Siemens V90, Schneider Lexium Drives, Altivar (312, 320, 610) Danfoss Micro and Automation Drive, ABB 550 & 560 Series. Electrical Drawing: EPLAN Electric P8 2.9, AutoCAD. Communication Protocols: Modbus RTU/TCPIP, Ethernet IP, Profinet, MQTT.

Experience

1. Deputy Manager - Engineering

   Schneider Electric

   Jul 2022 — Present

Education

• Vidyavardhini's College of Engineering and Technology

  Instrumentation Engineering

  2015 — 2018

• B.V Polytechnic

  Diploma

  2012 — 2015