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Mar 1 2019

How I got onto the National Engineering Register

Leave a Comment / Electrical Engineering / 5 minutes of reading

This week I managed to get myself onto the Engineers Australia National Engineering Register (NER) as a registered Professional Engineer (MIEAust) – Electrical.

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Jun 25 2018

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) in a nutshell

Leave a Comment / PLCs/PACs/DCS / 4 minutes of reading

This brief introduction will let you find out what a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) is, a quick history, and how they work.

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Jun 18 2018

Engineering Productivity is not just for Robots!

Leave a Comment / Engineering Productivity / 2 minutes of reading

My 4 favourite daily productivity tools are Confluence, Trello, 1Password, and DropBox. With these 4 combined, I can just get on with completing work tasks.

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Jun 10 2018

Welcome to the world of Industrial Control Systems Engineering

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Welcome to the world of Industrial Control Systems Engineering! I’ll be writing about PLCs, SCADA, ICS Security, Networking and Commissioning BIG machines.

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I’m Dennis Murphy, a Control Systems and Electrical Engineer based in Queensland, Australia.

I write about Industrial Control System security, safety, PLC programming, SCADA/HMI design, and commissioning.

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Recent Posts

  • How I got onto the National Engineering Register
  • Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) in a nutshell
  • Engineering Productivity is not just for Robots!
  • Welcome to the world of Industrial Control Systems Engineering

Software Expertise

PLC/PAC/DCS
Rockwell Automation (Allen Bradley) Studio 5000/RSLogix 5000, RSLogix 500, RSLogix 5,
Aveva (Schneider) Unity Pro, Concept, ProWorx, Advantys, SCADAPack Telepace/Isagraph,
GE: Proficy Machine Edition,
Koyo: DirectLOGIC,  DirectSOFT, Omron: CX Programmer, Syswin
Mitsubishi: GX Developer,
Siemens: S7 Simatic,
ABB: Harmony/Composer, Batch Data Manager

HMI/SCADA
Rockwell Automation (Allen Bradley) RSView/FactoryTalk SE/ME, Aveva (Schneider) CitectSCADA/Vijeo Citect, Wonderware Intouch/Archestra, GE Cimplicity

 

Asset Management/Version Control
Rockwell Automation (Allen Bradley) AssetCentre, MDT, Git

Virtualisation
VMWare Workstation, ESXi, VSphere, VirtualBox

Cloud/Hosting
AWS, Azure, CPanel, Local by Flywheel

Communications
Prosoft, Anybus, Redlion Crimson, AB RSLinx, RSNetworx, Freewave, Trio, AustDac, Edac, Moxa, Cisco, Ubiquity, Modbus, DeviceNet

Drives
Allen Bradley DriveLogix, Danfoss, Fuji Frenic

 

OS
Windows XP, 7, 10, Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019, MacOSX, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian

Drafting/PCB Design
OrCAD, AutoCAD

Software languages
IEC-61131-3, MATLAB, C++

Web Development
HTML, CSS, SQL, PHP

CMS/Task Management
WordPress, Confluence, Jira, Trello

IoT
LoRa

Maker
Arduino IDE, Raspbian

I’m Dennis Murphy, a Control Systems and Electrical Engineer based in Queensland, Australia.

Recent Posts

  • How I got onto the National Engineering Register
  • Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) in a nutshell
  • Engineering Productivity is not just for Robots!
  • Welcome to the world of Industrial Control Systems Engineering
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