My name is Ruben van den Brink and I am founder of Brink Composite Engineering. I studied at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Aviation Studies. After my graduation at Inholland Composites (Delft) in March 2018 I’ve been working on a project at Airborne Composite Automation for six months part time. My task in this project was implementation of machine vision. During these six months I was also part time working at Inholland Composites. From September 2018 until august 2019 I’ve been working full time at Inholland Composites. During the final year of my study and my workexperience after graduation I gained experience in three main multiple disciplines which are: automation, machine vision and composites.
During my study I did my internship and graduation research back to back at Inholland Composites. First I did my internship for six months where I was tasked with professionalizing the robot area at Inholland Composites. Here I gained experience with the Fanuc M20iA-35M robot arm which I used in multiple small projects such as milling, cutting and pick and placement of composite fibers. Additionally I gained experience with safety regulations and RI&E procedures for robotics.
After my internship Inholland Composites offered me the opportunity to do my graduation with the robot arm. My assignment was the improve the vacuum infusion production process with a “smart” robot arm. This meant implementing machine vision in the robot control loop to inspect raw materials for defects before using the material in the production process.
After I finished my graduation I was approached by Airborne Composite Automation regarding a job opportunity in one of their research projects. I was tasked with the implementation of machine vision into a composite part production line. I’ve spend here six months part time where I’ve gained not only extra experience in machine vision but also working as part of a team with experienced engineers and a Lean environment. Besides my work at Airborne I was also working part time at Inholland Composites after my graduation due to my experience with automation and machine vision.
After my six months part time at Airborne and Inholland Composites I started in september 2018 full time at Inholland Composites. As a project engineer I was participating in the research programs running at Inholland Composites and supervising internship and graduation students during their projects. During the supervision and supporting of several projects I expanded my knowledge fields as automation and programming in LabVIEW. Internship and graduation project videos and my part in the projects can be seen at the bottom of this page. Next to the supervision of this projects I was involved in the First-Time-Right research project at Inholland Composites. To finish this two-year project we developed a smart mould demonstrator that would be displayed at JEC2019. During the development of this demonstrator I was project manager and responsible for the programming of smart mould. The smart mould included machine vision, thermal vision, controllable background lighting and controllable valves. All these features were programmed into a LabVIEW control program.