StripchartOPC

I began creating applications for rotating equipment as a Field Engineer for Solar Turbines. After I left Solar in 2006 I began this website with the intent to share new applications with the rotating equipment community. StripchartOPC was my first publicly distributed application. It can be used for monitoring any type of PLC controlled equipment with high speed trends.

I've developed other applications since then, mostly for rotating equipment and these are also available here. I hope you find them all useful. 

Consulting Services

I have spent the majority of my 30+ year career working in the field on gas turbines, centrifugal compressors and turboexpanders. I have significant experience solving reliability problems related to systems and control logic faults. Please contact me if I can be of assistance with equipment reliability problems, or for other rotating equipment projects. 

Areas of expertise:

• Data driven troubleshooting leveraging in depth analyses of hydromechanical system and automation designs
• Specifying rotating equipment, especially Solar Turbines products
• Project development support, including site design and equipment safety reviews
• System integration and equipment control strategies
• Process control design
• Surge control design, including dynamic simulations, valve selection and control system validation
• Commissioning services
• Field testing and tuning for process control, surge control and thermodynamic performance