Control Systems Day
Albertus Richter
Albertus Richter is an APC engineer at Stone Three, with 5 years of experience.
He graduated in 2021 from the University of Pretoria with a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering then went on to specialise in control systems obtaining his master’s degree, also at Pretoria. His research focussed on automatic tuning of level controllers in a flotation bank using Bayesian Optimisation. Since then, he has worked as both a Process Control Engineer and Software Engineer in the Mineral Processing field developing, installing and maintaining Advanced Process Control systems.
Abstract
Title: APC in Practice
APC engineers are required to be all-rounders, needing working knowledge of PLCs, instrumentation, mechanical components, computer networks, OPC servers and, finally, the advanced algorithms. In this talk I will walk through what an APC engineer does on a project: analysing plant data to see what each site requires, integrating with the plant control system, commissioning on site, and maintaining the solution together with site personnel.
