Analog and Digital Audio Amplifiers and Other Multimedia Products

Date: 2017 – 2020.Developed by Harman International.Customers: BMW, Audi, Daimler, Volvo, VW, Aston Martin, Ferrari, etc.Creators: a large team of engineers.Raúl’s contribution: director of hardware engineering in Europe. Projects supervision, team management, escalations management and other managerial tasks.Market: automotive / Tier 1 supplier / multimedia electronics.Product category: audio and other multimedia products. From 2017 to 2020 Raúl was leading the hardware department in Europe at Harman International, a Samsung Company. During this period of time the department developed many audio products and other multimedia products for most of the European OEMs. The products consisted of tenths of acoustic output channels,…

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CISIUM, Inc. Company Offering Electrical, Electronic and Software Development Services

Date: 2008 – 2015.Company owners: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and Luis Martinez.Customers: Ciephil Trading, VPI Diabetes Management, Surface Technology International Limited, Lear Corporation, Böning Automationstechnologie GmbH & Co. KG, etc.Raúl’s contribution: co-founder, co-owner, executive director, engineering manger and senior engineer.Market: automotive, consumer electronics, industrial and medical.Product category: engineering services. CISIUM, Inc. was a company that provided an extended palette of electrical, electronic and software development services, offering complete solutions for electronic products and electronic development, software development for PC and web applications, design and implementation of industrial automation infrastructures and integration of electronic instrumentation. CISIUM, Inc. was the partner of many small…

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Database with 6000 Electronic Part Numbers

Date: 2010.Company owner: Lear Corporation.Developed by Cisium, Inc. Customer: internal user of Lear Corporation.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and many others.Raúl’s contribution: engineering manager, project manager and lead engineer.Market: automotive.Product category: data codification. In the scope of the single activities related to electronic hardware engineering support, CISIUM has perform the review of an electronic component data base of more than 6000 part numbers. The database belongs to one of the biggest companies in the automotive sector. The review, supervise, wrap up in term of electronic attributes and datasheets, have been done closely with the top electronic components specialist of the company and has…

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Smart Junction Boxes for Various OEMs

Date: 2005 - 2009.Developed by Lear Corporation. Customers: Nissan, Renault, BMW and Mitsubishi.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and many others.Raúl's contribution: senior hardware engineer. Responsible of electronic design, electronic component selection, schematic design, PCB supervision and review, EMC review, DFMEA, FTA, etc.Market: automotive / Tier 1 supplier.Product category: control and power distribution. Smart Junction Box (SJB) integrates passive junction box features with electronic module functionality. It uses microcontroller based technology to switch power and control vehicle body functions. SJB technology utilizes a total systems approach by optimizing and integrating control and power distribution functions into a single module. SJB replaces relays…

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Putty Heated Pumps for OEMs Production Line

Date: 2000.Developed by ASM Dimatec.Clients: numerous vehicle manufacturers.Authors: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and other engineers.Contribution of Raúl: electrical designer. Creation of schematics in ePAN, selection of electrical elements and creation of electrical documentation.Market: automotive subsidiary.Product category: industrial machinery. The project consisted of heated pumps for the application of putty, which is applied at the junction between bodywork and glass as a sealing method. The pump is optimized for the extraction of very low viscosity fluids. All the hoses are heated, as well as the piston, valves, etc. The electrical control box is made up of PLCs, magnetothermics, electromechanical relays and solid…

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Sheet Stacker for Ford Production Line

Date: 1999 - 2000.Developed by ASM Dimatec.Customers: Ford.Authors: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and other engineers.Contribution of Raúl: electrical designer. Creation of schematics in ePLAN, selection of electrical elements and creation of electrical documentation.Market: automotive subsidiary.Product category: industrial machinery. This system consisted of a press line and the sheet unstacking system. The de-stacking was implemented using a robot, which extracted the sheets from the pile and introduced them in the first press. The security criteria were very severe: Pilz security automatons and all wiring with an emergency mechanism. The project was selected to carry out an audit of the QS9000, which is…

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Putty Glass Application for Seat Production Line

Date: 2000.Developed by ASM Dimatec.Clients: Seat.Authors: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and other engineers.Contribution of Raúl: electrical designer. Creation of schematics in ePAN, selection of electrical elements and creation of electrical documentation.Market: automotive subsidiary.Product category: industrial machinery. This machine consisted of applying putty to the car's rear window, made up of two well-differentiated blocks, one heated pumps and the other a Cartesian axle system for applying the putty. The most tedious part of the design consisted in the numbering of the terminals of the electrical cabinet, as well as the manual drawing of the same. In the illustration on the left you…

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