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Engineering across disciplines.

Robotics, advanced manufacturing, design, and quality inspection — four overlapping domains, applied from research labs to the factory floor.

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Robotics & Automation
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Advanced Manufacturing
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Design & Analysis
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Quality Inspection
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Robotics & Automation

Applied automation across production, packaging, and in-line inspection systems — with robotics and integrated computer vision.

Cobot-driven Roboforming demonstrator

I work hands-on across the robotics and automation stack — from high-level TP programming on commercial platforms (UR, KUKA, ABB) to low-level control with ROS 2, MoveIt, and Gazebo — bridging applied industrial deployment and research-grade development.

In my current EngD work with the Fraunhofer Innovation Platform, I'm developing a robotic alternative to traditional, expensive, and time-consuming metal forming, coined as Roboforming Digital Twin. The core goal — using low-payload collaborative robots for fast, cost-effective prototyping and low-volume manufacturing — has already been achieved.

Capabilities
Robot Control & Programming
High-level & low-level
Intelligent Path Planning
AI integration
Multi-Robot Coordination
Multi-arm control
Toolkit
UR, ABB, YASKAWA
URScript, RAPID, INFORM
ROS 2 stack
MoveIt, Gazebo, Python, RViz
Path Planners & IK Solvers
OMPL, Trac-IK, TrajOpt, Pilz
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Advanced Manufacturing

Where engineering drawings become production reality — design-for-manufacturability, line integration, and additive prototyping.

Advanced manufacturing overlaps deeply with the robotics and automation work above — but it carries its own logic of design-for-manufacturability, line integration, and additive prototyping. This section is dedicated to that side of my engineering practice.

In industrial settings, I designed parts and processes for automated X-ray inspection lines for the automotive and e-mobility sectors — with strict DFM compliance and full handoff from CAD to shop floor. I've also simulated assembly lines in Visual Components for early-stage line concepting, and used additive manufacturing to prototype custom end-effectors and fixtures.

Capabilities
Design for Manufacturability
DFM principles & shop-floor handoff
Process Integration
Layout simulation & virtual commissioning
Production Engineering
SOPs · technical documentation · lean
Toolkit
Software
Visual Components, SolidWorks, Creo, Inventor, Fusion 360, Abaqus
3D Printing
PrusaSlicer, Meshmixer
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Design & Analysis

Five years of hands-on engineering design and analysis — adapting to any problem and translating it into a complete, simulation-validated solution.

A long-standing core of my engineering practice. Across these years I've worked across parametric and surface CAD, structural and thermal FEM, and CFD analysis — comfortable taking on any design problem and seeing it through from concept to validated solution.

Capabilities
CAD & Modeling
Parametric, surface & assembly
Structural & Thermal FEM
Concept to validated solution
CFD Analysis
Flow & thermal
Toolkit
Design
SolidWorks, Creo, Inventor, Fusion 360
Analysis
Abaqus, ANSYS Mechanical, Fluent, CFX
Simulation
MATLAB, Simulink, Keyshot, SW Visualize
Selected Work in Design & Analysis
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Quality Inspection

Validation and inspection systems — from prototype test benches to industrial production lines.

AI-based production inspection line — concept presentation
AI-based production inspection line — concept presentation

My inspection work spans both prototype and production scales. During and after my master's studies, I worked on the design and development of a hydraulic engine test bench — covering mechanical design, instrumentation, and PLC-based data acquisition via NI cRIO and LabVIEW Real-Time.

Then, I moved into industrial-scale inspection — designing high-resolution X-ray and CT systems for automotive components. I also contributed to xis.ai's market positioning of AI-driven defect detection across EU and US manufacturing sectors.

Capabilities
Test Bench Engineering
Engine & powertrain validation rigs
Industrial Inspection
X-ray & CT design · in-line integration
Quality Methods
FMEA · SPC · AI-driven defect detection
Toolkit
Acquisition & Control
NI cRIO, LabVIEW Real-Time
Inspection Hardware
Industrial X-ray / CT systems, Basler cameras
Analysis
Python, R, MATLAB

Let's build something worth building.

Thinking together is difficult, but building together is something I believe in.

marij4000@gmail.com