Michael Amrhein

Current

• R&D Manager at Online Control Ltd.

Education

• Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Connections

20 connections

Industry

Industrial Automation

Michael Amrhein’s Summary

Project management:
• Project manager of more than 40 projects including subcontracting for Online Automation SA, EMG, and independent collaborators.

Data analysis (analysis and software development):
•Model-free chemometric methods for rapid reaction process development using spectral (IR, UV, LC, NMR) and other measurements (T, feeds, p, heat flux; de-velopment software product: PCM_Toolbox Modules Detection, Monitoring, Ki-netics).
•Classification strategies for raw material identification using various NIR diffusive reflectance measurement devices (Development software product: PCM_Toolbox Module Classification).
•Classification strategies for detection of boars (porcs) using data from electronic noses, sensory panels and HPLC.
•Exploratory data analysis (EDA) methods for micro-array data from pre-clinical studies.
•EDA and clustering methods for biotechnological data (IR, MS, off-line analyses).
•Blaine quality estimator for cement production (Software product: O_Mill).

Laboratory and industrial automation:
•Development and commissioning of a flexible automation system for continuous laboratory (micro-)reactors (joint patent with Lonza AG).
•Various automation projects with Online Automation SA.

Process control and optimization:
•Development and commissioning of the software systems O_Blend and O_Mill for the quality control and on-line optimization of raw mill blendings and cement mill circuits, respectively, in cement plants in Europe, America and Africa.

Sales engineering:
•Grants for over 50 projects with international biotechnological, cement, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies: project acquisition including first contact with the customer, offer submission, price negotiations and order.
•Establishment of a vendor network for O_Blend.

Michael Amrhein’s Specialties:

Cement industry, food industry, data analysis, process chemometric analysis, process automation, automatic control, process optimization, measurement system, NIR, IR, MS spectroscopy
Matlab, Siemens Step 7 S7, Siemens WinCC, OPC client/server, C, Visual basic

Michael Amrhein’s Experience

• R&D Manager

  Online Control Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Industrial Automation industry)

  October 1998 — Present (10 years 1 month)

  In addition to project-based automation services, ONLINE Control develops software systems in collaboration with our partners, ONLINE Automation and ETH Lausanne. These software systems help our customers analyze and operate their processes at new performance levels (reduction of process development time, increase in production of over 20%), thus leading to a return of investment of several months only.
  
  Currently, the following software systems are available:
  - PCM_Toolbox for the quality control of incoming and final products and the analysis of multisensor data (NIR, IR, Raman, MS, images) from chemical and biotechnological reaction processes
  - O_BLEND for the quality control and optimization of stockpiles and raw mills based on XRF and PGNA measurements in the cement industries
  - O_DISTILL for the optimization of batch distillation columns in the chemical industries
  - O_MILL for the quality control and optimization of cement mills

Michael Amrhein’s Education

• Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

  1992 — 1998

Additional Information

Michael Amrhein’s Groups:

•    EPFL Alumni

Michael Amrhein’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch