What better way to begin my holidays in Australia, then to celebrate a job well done at the CSIRO National Solar Energy Centre in Newcastle Australia.
My latest project, for my long time customer, and once upon-a-time employer WAVELABS, was to develop a SIEMENS and SICK based machine automation and control system, which could be integrated into WAVELABS own GUI software and one of their incredibly impressive SINUS-3000 Advanced Solar Simulators. This is not the first of such machines I have worked on for WAVELABS, but each is slightly different, and dependent of the customers specific requests.
Originally it was planned that I should be onsite for one week during the commissioning phase, and then remotely available for another, but in the end it was only necessary for me to be there for 2 days.
This shows the real life benefits of thorough testing and FAT’s, and although I may have missed out on a few extra euros for time onsite, actually I’m more proud of the fact, that the software I developed worked, and required minimum onsite optimisation.