Adrian A. Firmansyah · Industrial Automation

I work on every layer.

Plenty of automation projects stop at the panel. Or at the software. Management still reads yesterday's numbers. I keep going until it works, from the sensor in the pipe to the boardroom screen. For palm oil mills and water treatment plants. Based in Medan, reaching from Aceh to Sulawesi.

71palm oil mills on one corporate SCADA
5PDAM Tirtanadi water treatment plants
7mills running our own lightning sensors
35+projects delivered since 2018

Industries

Two industries I know inside out

Also worked in sugar mills · power generation · aluminium manufacturing · office buildings See projects in other industries →

Expertise

From the sensor in the pipe to the boardroom screen

Most vendors handle one or two layers. Get one wrong and the whole system is wrong. My team and I handle all four.

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Screen

PTPN IV's directors open one screen and see all 71 palm oil mills. Reports? Download them yourself, any time.

  • Web dashboards
  • Grafana
  • Automatic reports
03

Telemetry

The mills are remote, the data has to reach head office. Over VSAT and cellular. Reports used to arrive the next day; now it is every second.

  • VSAT
  • MQTT
  • Modbus
  • OPC-UA
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Logic

PLCs, interlocks, on-site SCADA. Example: turbidity goes past 5 NTU and the distribution pumps stop right away. Operators no longer chase cloudy water.

  • Siemens
  • Schneider
  • Omron
  • CODESYS
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Field

Sensors and analyzers installed, calibrated, checked. The device doesn't exist yet? We build it. Our lightning sensors log strikes and grounding resistance every second.

  • Water quality analyzers
  • Flowmeter
  • Transmitter
  • In-house hardware

Our clients

Who we have worked for

Through Xtend Integrasi Indonesia and Firmansyah.co, since 2018. Some as a subcontractor.

Adrian in a white helmet on a tank roof, palm plantation behind him

About

Electrical engineer, hands-on in the field

I am Technical Director at Xtend Integrasi Indonesia in Medan. Since 2018 I have been on site myself. Installing and calibrating instruments, programming PLCs, building SCADA, connecting remote mills to head office.

Alongside that I run my own practice, Firmansyah.co. I am also active in FIM-PII North Sumatra (young engineers' forum of the Institution of Engineers Indonesia), and JCI Medan.

I talk straight. But relax, I don't bite.

Education
Ir. (Professional Engineer Program), M.T. and S.T. in Electrical Engineering, ITS
Certification
BNSP IoT Device Engineer and IoT Platform Engineer
Writing
The book Sensor Fusion (Deepublish, 2024) and two IEEE papers
Organizations
Local Vice President, JCI Medan · Deputy Treasurer General, FIM-PII North Sumatra

Speaking

Invite me to speak. Here are the topics.

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Digitizing palm oil mills: from WhatsApp to SCADA

71 remote mills connected. What was hard, and what changed for management.

02

Clean water is a numbers game

Turbidity, pH, residual chlorine, pump interlocks. Everything measured, nothing guessed.

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Upgrade before you replace

When an old PLC just needs an upgrade, and when it really has to go.

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Industrial technology, made locally

Locally built lightning sensors, and why young engineers in North Sumatra should dare to build.

Contact

Plant still running blind? Let's talk.

Tell me how things stand. I will tell you straight which layer to fix first. Just asking around is fine too, no pressure.