Usman Nasir is a control systems engineer and systems designer. For eighteen years he has built automation that wasn't allowed to fail — and for the last two, he has worked deep in modern AI. The value lives in the seam between them.
Usman designs systems that make operations perform better. His core is optimization — loop tuning, advanced process control, model predictive control — and system design across every layer, from a field instrument to the PLC and DCS, up through SCADA, the historian, and into MES and the business need above them.
That breadth is unusual. Most people know one layer well. Usman has commissioned control systems on an offshore platform off Angola, validated safety-critical separators in pharma plants, and now leads machining-line automation at one of the world's largest truck manufacturers. He knows what each component does, how it fails, and what the business actually needs from it.
He treats AI as the next instrument of optimization — not a pivot away from the work, but a continuation of it. Companies adopting AI want the same thing optimization always delivered: better performance, held reliably, under real conditions. The discipline that makes automation trustworthy on a plant floor is exactly what non-deterministic AI systems need.
Stockholm, Sweden
Lead Automation Engineer, Scania
Industry 4.0 machining lines, plus building AI into the engineering workflow.
A timeline of the control, automation, and optimization work behind the career — from wireless control on a cement stacker in 2007 to Industry 4.0 machining lines today. Each role lists its flagship projects and the technology behind them.
Södertälje, Sweden
Leads automation on engine and gearbox machining lines, driving Industry 4.0 — machine connectivity, production traceability, and data-driven maintenance across the machining area.
PLC programming, Ignition SCADA/HMI and MES for engine and gearbox lines. Equipment data connectivity and full production traceability over TCP/IP and OPC.
Predictive monitoring and analytics on machining equipment to move from reactive repair toward planned, data-informed maintenance.
Stockholm, Sweden
High Speed Separators department — life sciences and food & beverage projects, with software construction and validation to GMP standards.
Software design and test-bench testing, IO verification, and documentation in compliance with GMP standards across life-sciences and F&B builds.
Offshore, Angola
Senior resource responsible for supervision and maintenance of control and safety systems across multiple offshore oil & gas platforms.
Maintained and modified Rockwell and APACS DCS systems; managed the APACS safety system and verified/modified Cause & Effect logic to keep platforms safe. Supported startups and upset troubleshooting as the daily focal point for operations.
Ran the alarm-management program through PAS to cut operator alarm load, and contributed to root-cause analyses using alarm logs and OSI PI trends.
Lahore, Pakistan
Project manager and technical lead on control-system and advanced-optimization projects — owning budget, the V-model lifecycle, milestones, and delivery. This is where the optimization work delivered hard cost savings.
Designed and deployed a Pavilion 8 model predictive control solution for a cement plant, driving the process toward optimal performance and reducing operating cost.
Model predictive control and control-loop tuning at the Engro Polymer plant that reduced fuel cost by holding the process closer to its optimal operating point.
Data-acquisition and advanced-process-control projects delivered under engineering budget, executed to the V-model lifecycle with milestone and invoicing ownership.
Lahore, Pakistan
Advanced process control and optimization, plus the SCADA, historian, and reporting systems that make plant data visible and actionable.
Advanced process control and model predictive control work, with process optimization through loop tuning — the foundation for the cost-saving deployments that followed.
Design and deployment of control and SCADA projects and of historian and reporting systems, with functional specs and detailed design documentation and ongoing client support.
Pakistan
SCADA deployment and third-party system integration across industrial automation projects.
Designed and programmed SCADA systems to customer requirements, with OPC-based integration and Modbus communication, and historian connectivity through OSI PI.
Pakistan
Industrial automation projects on Omron PLC and Delta drives — including a flagship power-generation deployment.
Project lead deploying Omron redundant PLC and Trace Mode SCADA to control and monitor an entire 136 MW gas turbine power plant.
Engineering and service work across Omron PLC and Delta drive/PLC platforms.
Pakistan
Where it started — wireless control, data acquisition, and HMI work across cement, textile, and power applications.
Replaced a legacy relay system with a modular controller to operate a stacker remotely from the control room over a 2.4 GHz wireless link.
Line-speed data acquisition for a fiber-dyeing unit with PLC + HMI, and a LAN-based powerhouse monitoring and logging system with an operator HMI for turbine control.
Dalarna University
COMSATS
Anthropic
Anthropic
Siemens