Skinner Creative - Creative Consulting in Machinery and Automation

More than 30 years machinery design, software and web design and industrial automation experience. Specializing in:

System Design
Machinery Design
Control System Design
Software and Web Design
Process Design
Plant Design
Vendor Qualification
Installation & Service
Servo Systems & Motion Control

Some recent projects:

www.3ringlongboards.com Web Site Design and Application

Designed and developed this web site using extensive PHP and MySQL programming which allows the site to interface to Google Maps and display longboard runs.

www.CompositesConsultants.com Web Site Design and Applications

Composites Consultants is a web site dedicated to the composite industry. It has categorized listing of companies involved in the industry. Free listings are provided for suppliers, developers and consultants that provide services to the composites industry. The site contains a selection of free on-line tools for resin formulation, pultrusion, and filament winding. It also has a news page with news from all of the composites industry media players, a calendar page with links to important composite industry events, and much more information of use to composite industry professionals. The web site is written in PHP and uses a MySQL data base.

Revision and enhancement of SCADA software

Developed controls package for a fiber placement machine

Developed a distributed ethernet based control package for a client's fiber placement machine. The control package consisted of three separate controlled subsystems (two PLCs and one computer) all connected via ethernet. The main control console used Labview to integrate the subsystems and provide a very user friendly interface.

Developed a web and browser based Data Collection System

Developed a data collection package based on a web server with PHP/MySQL. The data collection system was designed for collecting data during several steps of the client's manufacturing process. Data collection consisted of automated collection from process controllers and manually entered data from the operators. The data was made available to users via a ODBC server.

Medical device test unit

Designed embedded microprocessor control for medical device test unit. Wrote software for microprocessor. Designed housing and mechanical fixture for unit and developed main PC controller software in Windows C++.

Designed Composimate™ machine controller

Design of machine controller including hardware and software development. Labview based interface. Based on common, readily available software and hardware. Easy to maintain and upgrade.