Richard Smith

About Richard Smith

28+ years experience in the industrial automation industry in programming, troubleshooting, commissioning, installing, and helping people solve a variety of complex issues with a variety of control system technologies and architectures. One solution does not fit all issues.Specialties: HMI, PLC, VFD, Industrial PCs, Motion Control, Vision, Machine Connectivity, Analytics

Experience

1. Solution Engineer

   Beckhoff Automation

   Apr 2015 — Present · TN, US

   Covering Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee from Tennessee office as a solution engineer. Working with people to rethink the way they look at controls on industrial machines. Take one controller, one software, and one network to build a control system that will achieve higher production rates for less upfront cost and lower overall cost of ownership. Same controller can connect to databases (cloud based or locally) without additional hardware and share information to web pages locally or across the world.It\'s a whole new world for automation.Change can be a scary thing and we are here to show what you may be missing out on.

Education

• Tennessee Technological University

  BSEE, Electrical Engineering

  1988 — 1994

Skills

• Management
• Rexroth
• Engineering
• Lean Manufacturing
• Plc
• Servo
• Hmis
• Scada
• Product Management
• Electrical Engineering
• Electricians
• Fluid Power
• Indramat
• Delta Automation
• Electronics
• Sensors
• Wiring
• Industrial Engineering
• Control Logic
• Control Systems Design
• Manufacturing
• Robotics
• Pneumatics
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Dalsa
• Process Automation
• Machine Vision
• Plc Programming
• Motors
• Cnc
• Profibus
• Motion Control
• Industrial Control
• Autocad
• Automation
• Material Handling
• Hmi Programming
• Electro-Mechanical
• Allen Bradley
• Instrumentation