PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
YEAR

Production Engineering Intern @ Temporal Power

Temporal Power designs, manufactures and services flywheel energy storage technology. Temporal Power flywheels are used to improve power quality and lower costs by more accurately balancing energy on power systems. The technology is used to make renewable power more predictable which means variable generation like wind and solar can be smoothly integrated onto power grids.

During my experience as a Production Engineering Intern at Temporal Power for 16 months, I had opportunities to participate in various roles to help manufacture, assemble and service Temporal Power flywheels. My main responsibilities include:

Analyzing past flywheel performance data to generate trends and investigate performance trends to help drive continuous. improvements.
Tracking and reporting production inspection data.
Instructing and training production staff on modified and improved processes.
Documenting test results along with time and motion studies.

My specific tasks and achievements during the internship can be found below.

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TASKS AND ACHEIVEMENTS

DEVELOPMENT

Assembly Test Procedure Improvement

Digitized an assembly testing procedure by implementing a contact sensor, custom tools and fixtures.
Result: This improved reliability, accuracy and efficiency in the testing procedure. The improved testing procedure was able to save approximately 390 man-hours throughout 3 projects.

Vacuum Sensor Reading

Developed an Arduino based real-time vacuum measurement and data collection system.
Result: Measurement taken every 30 seconds resulted more accurate and reliable results compared to measurements taken every hour.
This also allowed early prediction of vacuum test success which accelerated the assembly process.

Tools & Fixture Development

Implemented developed and improved custom production and quality assurance tooling using Solidworks.
Result: Implemented tools functional and operational with other existing tools and assembly procedures.

DATA COLLECTION AND COMPARISON

Assembly Test Procedure

Collected data from a load cell and a contact probe. This data was saved and several significant measurements were summarized into an Excel spreadsheet. The Excel file allowed to create trends between the assembly testing results and flywheel performances to forecast the flywheel performance in earlier stage of the assembly.

Vacuum Pressure Test

Collected data from a Agilent vacuum sensor through Arduino. The sensor data was read every 30 seconds and the entire vacuum pressure test data was saved on Excel file to generate a graph. The accumulated trend graph allowed for early prediction of pass/fail of the flywheel component.

TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATIONS

Process Instructions

Updated Process Instructions (P.I.) documents to fit the updated procedures. These documents included pictures, specific procedure instructions (including torques required for bolts), referred to other P.I. documents and following the same structure as other documents.

O & M Manual for a Customer Site

Participated in writing a Operation and Maintenance Manual for one of the customer sites. Updated P.I. to fit the site's equipment and the flywheel version.