About me

   In January 2022, I started working at Metal Service, a metalworking company focused in manufacturing equipment for paper and pulp industry. As I was admitted as an experienced Mechanical Engineer, and the company was facing a significant increase on its sales, since day one I worked in a wide range of projects, equipment and customizations. I can easily say that it was my most productive year so far, and I enjoyed it a lot!

   At first, I was requested to update some of the company’s most frequent sold projects. Since they were transitioning between CAD Software, many old projects needed to be recreated in the new software environment, and as many of them had unattended requests from the production sector, or were out-of-date with the current work safety regulations, I was requested update their projects in order to avoid any future problem. Besides redesigning those machines, I had to develop all operations and maintenance related documentation, such as manuals, instructions certifications etc. As a matter of fact, the company did not have a standard to its manuals, despite this kind of information is standardized by regulation in Brazil. So, after gathering the NBR standards related to equipment documentation, we scheduled a meeting in which we discuss and implemented those standards for every next manual we had to do. After some time, when the projects reach the manufacturing stage, my changes were well accepted and I received some nice compliments. Due this nice performance, the managers decided to assign me to solve a bigger problem in which they had just got into.

   Due to a failed communication between the sales team and the client, the company had just got into a bad deal. Trying to get rid of an old equipment that was stored at the yard for almost a decade, we had accepted some several modifications and customizations to meet the client’s expectation, but those modifications would be way more expensive than the price charged. However, due to the possibility of future sales, the company’s board decided to proceed with the project regardless the financial loss. The concerned equipment was a Paper Roll Cutting Guillotine, which was designed to cut paper rolls, of 1300 mm of diameter and 2300 mm of length, only until its tube i.e., it would cut only until half of the paper roll diameter. Nonetheless after the modifications promised to the client, the equipment was supposed to cut full diameter length of a 1600mm diameter and 2600 length paper roll. The project was really challenging and required me to constantly intermediate between the client and the company’s financial sector, besides the extensive Engineering work that this kind of modification requires. Simplifying, I had to redesign the whole blade and its supporter, and as the new paper roll would not fit into the structure’s opening, it had to be redesigned as well. After this first redesign stage, we manufacture the new parts, assemble them and test the equipment. Unfortunately, the increase in the load required to cut the new paper roll length has created different component forces that started to bend the blade supporter. Therefore, fearing the arise of new unforeseen force loads, I recreate the blade support in a CAE environment and undertook several simulations to evaluate the best geometry thereof. Besides that, the tests had shown some operational problems that required my attention such lubricating and safety locks. Then the new blade support modifications were undertaken, the new lubricating system was installed as the safety, mechanical and electronic, locks as well. After running some final tests, the equipment has run smoothly and received all approval to be delivered to the client, which is using it until nowadays.
  Even though this was the project I am most pride of, because the feeling of being pushed to my highest perform as Engineer, strategist, professional and person, I have designed several more machines during my time working at Metal Service. And since my results were greatly appreciated after these projects, I started receiving more and more complex projects, what made me each time more motivated.

   Unfortunately, my thirst for knowledge and experience hit me hard after the arise of possibility to work in Australia. So, knowing that my colleagues were counting on me, I insisted in notice them well in advance so I could finish every project and pending matter that depended on me. With an invitation to come back at anytime I need, and a lot of affection from all my coworkers, I left the company at the finish of April with the feeling that not only I have made a great work, but I have made a lot of great friends.