Edvin Gottfredsson — portrait— The engineer / CV

Edvin Gottfredsson

Automation Engineer — Founder of Tekr

Automation engineer with eight years across Swedish manufacturing and process industry: PLC and HMI programming, electrical design, and commissioning. His electrical background means he can rewire and trace faults himself when troubleshooting. Since 2024 he has run Tekr, the engineering studio in Kalmar.

Based
Kalmar, Sweden
In industry since
2018
Expert
Siemens TIA Portal & WinCC
Studio
Tekr, founded 2024

— 01 / Career

Engagements before 2024 were delivered while employed at the consultancies named below.

Tekr

Founder & Consultant
2024 — present
2024–2025

Södra Cell Mönsterås

New control system for the TM5 baling line — new PLC, new code, commissioning across the line. Optimization, drives, and punch-list closeout on the two TM4 lines.

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KLT Konsult

Automation Engineer
2022 — 2023
2023

Södra Cell Mönsterås

Programming of baling lines.

2023

Yaskawa Nordic

PLC programming for robot cells.

2022

Södra Wood Mönsterås

Electrical design and programming of oil boilers.

AFRY Advanced Manufacturing, Gothenburg

Automation Engineer
2019 — 2022
2021–2022

SKF — FLOW 3

Turnkey delivery of a new production line with eight systems: robots, machines, conveyors, elevators. PLC & HMI programming, Siemens Motion Control, commissioning.

2021

SKF — RK RR06

PLC & HMI programming; new buffer stations in a robot cell to eliminate a bottleneck.

2020

Vargön Alloys

Commissioning of a new water treatment plant; PLC & HMI development.

2020

Alfa Laval

Robot cell commissioning.

2020

Preem, Gothenburg

Safety programming.

2020

Klädesholmen Seafood

Program improvements and machine troubleshooting.

2019

Holmen Timber, Norrköping

Electrical design and programming of a timber press.

2019

Volvo Cars

Commissioning and testing of charging stations.

2019

Assa Abloy

Troubleshooting and program improvements in production machines.

AFRY, Oskarshamn

Automation Engineer
2018 — 2019
2018–2019

Scania Industrial Maintenance

PLC responsibility: troubleshooting, improvements, and maintenance of production plants, day and night shifts.

2018

Scania CV

Programming and commissioning of rack handling.

2018

Högsby Municipality

SCADA programming in iFIX for a water treatment plant.

2018

SKB

PLC replacements.

2018

ABB / Volvo Torslanda

Maintenance and updates of ABB IRC5 robots.

— 02 / Platforms & skills

Expert
Siemens TIA Portal, WinCC
Experienced
CoDeSys, Rockwell RSLogix 5000, Mitsubishi GX Works2, Wonderware InTouch, iFIX SCADA, Siemens Motion Control
Robotics
ABB IRC5, Yaskawa — robot cell integration
Electrical
Electrical design, rewiring and fault-tracing, safety programming, commissioning

— 03 / Education & certificates

2016 — 2018

ETEC, Oskarshamn

Automation Engineer 4.0

2013 — 2016

Lars Kaggskolan, Kalmar

Electrical & Automation program

Siemens Simatic TIA Portal · RSLogix · ABB Robot IRC5 · iFIX HMI/SCADA · Yaskawa robot training

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