Metallurgical Engineer · Shift Supervisor · Abu Dhabi

Raymond P.
Capisinio

Ten years on the plant floor. Now I write about the operator's view of industrial data — and I'm teaching myself to build the tools that view deserves.

NOW — writing on shift handover and the operator's view of plant data
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The idea

Plants don't have a data problem. They have a capture problem.

The richest source of operational truth — what operators see, hear, and do on shift — is rarely captured in a form any system can use. It's spoken over radios, held in memory, scattered across spreadsheets. And lost.

I call it the capture layer — turning what the floor already knows into structured data, at the moment it happens. Not bigger models. Better capture.

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Capture at the moment

The watch-item, the half-finished job, the warning at handover — logged when it happens, not reconstructed after.
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The model never decides

Language captures and classifies; a deterministic engine stays the system of record. A design an operating plant can trust.
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Built on the floor

Designed from the shift, not from a spec sheet. It works because the person who built it has stood where you stand.

The shift log — writing

The three most recent entries are published here in full. Newer and earlier pieces first appear on LinkedIn — full versions land on this page.

Learning in public

Alongside the writing, I'm teaching myself to build automations that take the manual busywork out of operations — reports, summaries, the paperwork around a shift — and sharing what I learn, in plain terms, for other operators. A few of the things I'm building:

About

I'm not a software vendor who read about plants — I've run them. Ten years on the floor: gold processing in the Philippines, then alumina refining — the Bayer process — at a Gulf refinery, as a licensed metallurgical engineer and shift supervisor who issues the permits and leads the crew.

I build the tools I wished I had at the 6 a.m. handover. Whatever I make works because the person who made it has stood where you stand.

Bayer ProcessHydrometallurgyGold CIL / CIPDCS OperationPermit to WorkProcess SafetyRoot Cause AnalysisLean Six SigmaPython

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