Higor Costa

• Support Vale's operations concerning railway maintenance systems; • Maintenance planning and reliability analysis; • Asset management; • Project management.

• R&D in computer vision applied to industrial automation using Python and OpenCV; • Computation of paths optimized via graph theory for autonomous robot operation; • Integration between computer vision system and robot controller in ROS (Robot Operating System).

Professor of electrical engineering for technicians (Electricity and Basic Electronics).

• Collect, analyze and summarize data resolving ambiguities to generate meaningful insights; • Create Master Plan for Maintenance, including strategy, planning, materials, and services; • Analyze budgetary scenarios to prioritize investments aiming for reliability; • Manage maintenance assets keeping correspondence among real assets and SAP PM database; • Analyze productivity data to adjust both maintenance demands and required workforce; • Develop robotic process automation (RPA) in VBA and SQL.

• Develop projects for industrial machines and equipment automation using PLC; • Perform field surveys and technological upgrades in industrial plants; • Define equipment and sensors for automation and instrumentation systems; • Estimate costs of electrical and automation projects; • Supervise project implementation in industrial environment.

• Study company’s portfolio and take part in tests of systems under development; • Perform market research focused on strategic intelligence aspects regarding new industrial installations; • Support sales engineer activities.

Telecommunications and Information Technology, Optimization, Meta-heuristics, Graph Theory, Routing, and Scheduling.

Process Control

Electronics, Microcontrollers, Information Technology