Imanol Padillo Cruz

Management and controlling of manufacturing and logistics processes at Mercedes-Benz factory in Vitoria-Gasteiz (W157).

Systems engineer responsible for managing new requirements associated to on-board railway monitoring system in order to design critical software (SIL4) according to railway regulation.

Soft/Hardware engineer in the sectors of metrology, test engineering and automation technology. Developer of custom electronic modules to be implemented in automotive and non-automotive systems. Currently I am working on the development of workbenches for testing quality and reliability of new electronic devices and sensors that must be integrated in complex systems (automotive sector, home appliance, new products...).

Participation in R&D projects focused on the development of innovative ICT solutions to face the industrial systems innovation challenge through data acquisition, analysis and processing for production optimization at shop floor level. These activities also involve integration of wired and wireless networked sensors and actuators, communication technologies, and local data pre-processing through embedded computing.

Participation in R&D projects mainly focused on the integration of sensors solutions to be used in the Industrial Sector with the aim of introduce safety improvements and automation. Monitoring of workers' physiological parameters, environmental parameters and industrial measurements through data acquisition and software development. Use of Wireless Sensor Networks so as to communicate raw data from distributed sensors.

(Theory of control; automation of processes and robotic; modelling and simulation of industrial processes; information technology and industrial communications (CANbus, PROFIBUS, etc); mechanical systems; electronic industrial systems; pneumatic, hydraulic and electrical activation; articial vision)

(Fundamentals of electrical technology and computer science; electronic instrumentation; digital buses and protocols (I2C, SPI, RS-232, RS-485, GPIB, etc); microelectronics; C for microcontrollers; programming of FPGAs using VHDL; power electronics; design of PCBs; Matlab; Labview)