Intro
Bringing AI to the factories of the future.
Description
I can't say much about this project without breaking my confidentiality clause, but the software we developed was related to "smart" factories.
The idea was to bring AI and IoT to improve manufacturing processes.
An example would be to do data mining on the sensors of a motor to predict when the motor is going to fail a long time before it happens, and know which parts need to be replaced when to prevent any downtime because of repairs.
The developement was on a custom chip developed by the company, but the core itself was an ARM Cortex M3 and all the developement was barebones (no operating system). I was also involved in developing automated tests in python and worked pretty close with the hardware team to get my software on their prototypes.
On top of that, the big benefit of the company was that they were very focused on inovation. They had "inovation competitions" and we were given time to come up with our own crazy ideas and experiments. That was an amazing learning oportunity.
One of my ideas gained enough traction for me to present it to the CTO, and I've been told by coworkers that stayed at the company that a few years after I left, a real project was actually started to implement that idea.
- Company: Eaton European Inovation Center
- Date: 2016-2018
- Position: C++ Software Engineer
- Duration: 2 years