Alex Tech Bits
Railway Engineer
Programs & Tools
As an inquisitive engineer like I am, throughout my career and in my personal time, I have learnt many useful programs and tools to have better results. I always look for different options to improve my work (inside and outside of the job).
Mainly, in all of them, I have a quite good level.
SOLID WORKS
Drawings are the base of the engineering and modeling in 3D is the present. With that way of working, decrease the failures and increase the efficiency. I have two courses of Solid and thousands of hours using it. I also use it for hobbies, because with SolidWorks I can make stress test for my prototypes.
NX SIEMENS
For a client's needs I had to learn Nx, being an advanced user in Solidworks help me a lot and it was easy for me to get a good level, now I have hundreds of hours but I am still learning and improving my knowledge.
Next step, PTC Creo (y quizá Catia)
Teamcenter (SIEMENS PLM)
Teamcenter is basically a file server for 3D design programs, mainly for Nx. With Teamcenter, you can work sharing files without problems
ePLAN P8
In my jobs is very common to use electrical schemes. Also I have design them, using the best tools, like ePLAN. It is a very powerful program with which you can design huge wiring diagram
ISIS
ISIS is a very powerful program to design and simulate electronic circuits. Also can emulate the function of a microcontroller and its program.
ARES
ARES is the perfect collegue of ISIS, with it you can design the PCB of the electronic circuit and generate the Gerber to produce it.
PTC Creo
Now, I'm starting with PTC Creo an other 3D design program, as powerful as Nx or SolidWorks. I'm not going to use as frequently as I did with Nx or SolidWorks, but as usual I like to be prepare to do my job as best as I can.
AutoCAD
We cannot forget the bases of the drawings. AutoCAD is probably the most common program in technical draws and many exchange files can be open and edit in AutoCAD.
DIALux
Day by day the confort in the office and at home is more important and the lighting has its value, even in the industrial or railway field. DIALux gives you the possibility of select and distribute the lights of a space to make it comfortable.
RAIL DESIGNER
ePLAN has a lot of plugins of many manufacturers in order to help you using them products. Rail Designer helps you if you use termianal blocks in your Electric Cabinet (Weidmuller in particularly). Also generate drawings and 3D models.
SAP
MRPs and ERPs are quite common in our field. This programs, like SAP, have been implanted in companies that want to have the best performance and control. I have deal with SAP during many yeas, helping also in configuration and designing reports.
MICROSOFT NAVISION
Navision is the ERP of Microsof Dynamics. I was functional and programmer of Navision during I was in Bindar.
MICROSOFT OFFICE
Word and Excel are the usual ones, and I am quite advance in both of them.
Write Documents, Tenders, Technical Specifications,... are the work of each day.
Visio, Project, Access,... are also very familiar to me in my common work.
MICROSOFT WINDOWS
Beyond the typical use, advance configuration and knowledge in Windows help me to increase my efficiency.
