Udara Waraketiya
Senior Automation Engineer + Team Lead Automation
Udara is an automation engineer with 13 years of experience in Electrical, Instrumentation and Control (EIC) engineering, automation programming and commissioning in Oil & Gas industry and in automotive manufacturing industry.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Analysis and design in EIC engineering discipline
- State machine diagrams
- Machine sequence diagrams
- Machine timing diagrams
- Communication sequence diagrams
- Controls integration of automated (robotic, non-robotic), semi-automated & manual assembly cells
- Integrating safety circuits and safety instruments
- Integrating Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs)
- Integrating robot controllers, compiling interferences zones and implementing robot-to-robot and robot-to-machine interlocks
- Robot path programming – Fanuc
- Vision programming – Cognex, Banner
- Configure and commission field instruments
- Review of shut-down keys and control narratives for EIC construction
- Procurement of EIC equipment
- Scheduling, coordinating and supervising electrical construction, controls programming and robot path programming projects.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS & LICENSES
- Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
EDUCATION
- M.Sc. Electrical Engineering – University of Calgary, 2013
- B.Sc. Electrical Engineering – University of Moratuwa, 2008
- PLC-HMI certificate- Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, 2012