— The engineer / CVEdvin 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 & ConsultantSödra 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.
Read the engagementKLT Konsult
Automation EngineerSödra Cell Mönsterås
Programming of baling lines.
Yaskawa Nordic
PLC programming for robot cells.
Södra Wood Mönsterås
Electrical design and programming of oil boilers.
AFRY Advanced Manufacturing, Gothenburg
Automation EngineerSKF — FLOW 3
Turnkey delivery of a new production line with eight systems: robots, machines, conveyors, elevators. PLC & HMI programming, Siemens Motion Control, commissioning.
SKF — RK RR06
PLC & HMI programming; new buffer stations in a robot cell to eliminate a bottleneck.
Vargön Alloys
Commissioning of a new water treatment plant; PLC & HMI development.
Alfa Laval
Robot cell commissioning.
Preem, Gothenburg
Safety programming.
Klädesholmen Seafood
Program improvements and machine troubleshooting.
Holmen Timber, Norrköping
Electrical design and programming of a timber press.
Volvo Cars
Commissioning and testing of charging stations.
Assa Abloy
Troubleshooting and program improvements in production machines.
AFRY, Oskarshamn
Automation EngineerScania Industrial Maintenance
PLC responsibility: troubleshooting, improvements, and maintenance of production plants, day and night shifts.
Scania CV
Programming and commissioning of rack handling.
Högsby Municipality
SCADA programming in iFIX for a water treatment plant.
SKB
PLC replacements.
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
ETEC, Oskarshamn
Automation Engineer 4.0
Lars Kaggskolan, Kalmar
Electrical & Automation program
Siemens Simatic TIA Portal · RSLogix · ABB Robot IRC5 · iFIX HMI/SCADA · Yaskawa robot training