I develop and configure control systems for custom and prototype machines, as well as for older equipment with outdated or missing controls. This includes selecting and sizing the control and drive technology, configuring axes and kinematics — including non-standard types of motion — and commissioning the machine through to a ready-to-operate handover. Where the mechanics are worth keeping but the control system is no longer maintainable, I replace it with a current system (modernisation/retrofit).

This makes it possible to operate machines reliably even when no standard control system is available, and to keep existing equipment in use rather than replacing it.

For: workshops, university workshops, machine and special-purpose machine builders, and operations with sound mechanics but an outdated control system.

I integrate production, test and measurement instruments into existing software environments and automate the acquisition, storage and analysis of measurement data. Instruments are connected via common interfaces such as network, USB, serial connections, and others. This removes the need to transfer readings by hand; the data is available in a structured, consistent form and ready for immediate analysis.

This reduces sources of error, saves time and establishes the basis for consistent digitalisation in laboratory and testing environments.

For: laboratories, research, development and testing teams, and small manufacturers with test benches and measurement technology.

I develop software that connects machine and measurement setups into working processes: coordinate and geometry transformations, the generation of machine-ready process and motion data, analysis and evaluation tools, and interfaces between instruments and data storage. Implementation is mostly in Python, and in C/C++ where required. Where it usefully extends the process, a quality check can be added that performs an automated target-actual comparison in a feedback loop — for example based on images from camera data.

This produces reliable, traceable workflows and tailored tools wherever standard software is not sufficient.

For: applications in which measurement technology, control systems and data processing have to work together.