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Senior Automation Engineer at Flexware Innovation
Automation & Manufacturing Systems Professional building reliable data foundations for AI-ready factories.
Background spanning pharmaceutical manufacturing, site-wide PI architecture, systems integration, technical consulting, and hands-on engineering execution.
Profile
Industrial systems work with a practical data foundation.
Aldon's current and previous roles connect controls, historian architecture, validation, documentation, and manufacturing support.
Aldon P. Smith is an automation engineer whose experience combines industrial controls support, historian architecture, validation, and consulting work in pharmaceutical and manufacturing settings.
His background includes direct work with distributed control systems, SCADA and historian platforms, technical documentation, change control, troubleshooting, and manufacturing-facing support. The updated profile also shows current work around site-wide AVEVA PI systems, HighByte development and integration, and evaluating how LLM and agentic AI concepts may fit manufacturing processes.
Core Capabilities
Capabilities grounded in named systems, platforms, and responsibilities.
Historian & Industrial Data Platforms
AVEVA PI systemsOSIsoft PI ServerPI Vision 2019PI ProcessBookPI-SMTHistorian architectureRemote process monitoringHighByte
Validation & Regulated Systems
CSVVPP / IQ / OQ / PQTrackWiseGAMP 5cGMP21 CFR Part 11Annex 11
Engineering Execution
Change control documentationSoftware design specificationsAutoCAD ElectricalMicrosoft VisioMicrosoft ProjectControl panel build and wiring
Selected Work
Work themes from explicit experience, not invented case studies.
Flexware Innovation
PI architecture and integration at enterprise scale
Current role includes architecting site-wide AVEVA PI systems, serving as SME for client PI environments, and configuring PI platforms from concept through operation.
Flexware Innovation
HighByte development and connected manufacturing integration
Develops scripts for HighByte work and integrates HighByte into both new and existing client sites.
Skellig
Historian strategy leadership
Led historian strategy work by defining design principles, supervising the Historian I4.0 team, and building plans for timeline, resourcing, and capability growth.
Open Factory Initiative
An independent open-source effort kept separate from employment history.
Open Factory Initiative
Presented here as an independent open-source effort, separate from Aldon's employment history and any commercial client work.
Open Factory Initiative is included as a separate professional interest area rather than as an employer, client engagement, or commercial services company.
The current site source material does not provide dates, repository URLs, contributors, adoption claims, case studies, funding details, or client names for this effort.
Guardrails
- Keep the effort clearly independent from Flexware Innovation and other employers.
- Avoid commercial positioning unless source material explicitly supports it.
- Do not add implementation claims, users, metrics, or roadmap details without review.
- Use the effort to signal interest in open-source manufacturing systems thinking without overstating scope.
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