Discover the team Project engineering

Helping user to take advantage of the power of WiDE

The project engineering team serves as the link between the client and WiDE. It relies on its expertise in industrial processes, its creativity and its mastery of WiDE to support our clients with defining, structuring and deploying applications that improve their decision-making processes.

Three main missions

Deployment
We study the needs that the modelling will respond to in-depth and define the design in the form of an application.

Then we deploy this application and validate the results. We train the client so that they are able to deploy their applications independently.

Finally, we remain available throughout the life of the application to develop and support it.

Continuous improvement
We are the first people to use WiDE and witness the challenges clients face. In light of this, we identify new expectations that users have and share them with the developer team. In this way, we help ensure that WiDE is always improving.

Business expertise
Business expertise: We are also the operational experts for WiDE. We offer this expertise to our business development colleagues during the client-discovery phase or when submitting bids.

Privileged points of contact
for our clients

As project engineers, we are the privileged points of contact for our clients. Each engineer quickly takes responsibility for projects in Europe or elsewhere.

These projects can sometimes be complex and ambitious. In this position, we act as consultants and bring an outsider’s perspective on data management and opportunities for improvement.

No two days are the same

While WiDE is still our working tool, each engineer supports a number of clients during their time at WideTech. Each client and project has a different goal. There is no room for boredom or routine.

Individuals are at the heart
of our team

The department is based around three key concepts: the team, the individual and fun.

On one hand, we encourage independence, creativity and technical and personal development, as well as individual trial and error.

On the other hand, in order to grow as a unit, we put emphasis on team spirit, sharing and intra- and inter-departmental collaborations

Finally, we are convinced that good humour, smiles and a good vibe ensure happiness in the workplace. That’s why we work on that every day ;-)

Meet Christophe

Project Engineer

“I share the same ‘top sport’ standards as the one of my colleagues, the company and our customers.”.

From the spatial industry to the IT

I’m graduated as a civil engineer specialized in the spatial technologies. Rapidly, my interest in data management has grown up and I spend the first 20 years of my career in the IT and development environment.

Top sport level as a target

For years, I have trained Belgian top sport swimmers and used my engineering education as a driver for their performance and training. Today, I apply that same level of expertise & ambitions to my day to day live and work.

We share the same standards

From my previous experience in sport and industry, I setup some standards for myself and others.

Fortunately, those are perfectly in line with WideTech’s philosophy. As a process engineer, I now commit on delivering the same standards to our customers.

I use Wide to meet the ambitions of our customers
I embrace their challenge and build custom reports to overcome them
I support WiDE users as I used to do as a trainer
I bring methodologies to my WideTech team

Results by the team

Sport made me a real team player, 20 years work as an engineer in the industry confirmed only teamwork can turn any challenge into a success.

By joining WideTech engineering team, I’m confident we turn upcoming data and technology challenges into wonderful stories.

Meet Olivier

project Engineer since 2018

“I work in five differents areas, which makes my work exciting”.

An engineer with 3 years of experience

I studied Electromechanical Engineering at University of Liège (Belgium), which focused on energy production and distribution.

I started my carreer in 2017 as a BI and IT consultant, before joining WideTech in 2018.

Enjoying flexibility

I work from home a few days a week. I meet with clients about projects on a weekly basis: sometimes remotely, sometimes on-site in Belgium or sometimes even abroad. This rhythm suits me perfectly.

A role without limits

I work in five different areas, which makes my work exciting:

using WiDE to provide clients with added value;
creating reports and working on layouts, rendering, presentations;
studying processes, the client’s business and the user’s needs – I gather operational requirements and develop my models and reports accordingly;
managing relations with my clients, operators and users;
collaborating with testers and improvers – I give my feelings about the customer experience, missing features and so on.

A team that cares

Everyone on the team has their own responsibilities and suggests improvements. What we say is always taken into consideration. Management is friendly, open to discussion and available. The atmosphere is pleasant and people are respectful of each other, of the work and of deadlines.

This all makes it a pleasasnt place to work.

What added value does Widetech offer on a daily basis compared to your previous experiences?

There are many positives aspects. Now I have a lot of freedom in my work: the atmosphere is relaxed and I can even wear the clothes I want ;-) . It’s important for me to feel comfortable.

My previous job was more rigid. Management is more casual here. There are a lot of directions I can venture into to test new things. I have an exciting job and, on top of that, it changes every day.

Would you recommend working at WideTech?

With no hesitation. If you are looking for a fast-growing company, if you want to be versatile and if you are ready to face challenges, it is absolutely a good place to apply for a job.

testimony

Mansoor Ali AL-ABDALI

Vice President of Gas Network at OQ says:

“The AGR system has improved the reliability of the gas measurement process as well as provided assurance on the quality of the data. The performance of hardware and software systems are continuously monitored therefore minimizing or even suppressing bad actors. Process efficiency and effectiveness are key business objectives, which are very much satisfied by the WiDE software solution. It also provides transparency and auditable trail.”

Aurélien FLAMME

Site Technical Manager at Yara Tertre says:

“Compared with other time series data analysis tools, WiDE no code software platform has many features allowing operators, engineers and plant managers to monitor and analyze industrial process data very efficiently (for all kinds of purposes: site wide material balances, process performance monitoring, emissions monitoring, etc.), to in the end decide if process optimization or maintenance activities are needed or not.

WiDE user friendly web-based interface ensures an easy onboarding and acceptance of users (with minimum knowledge transfer). The all-in one user interfaces eases applications maintenance activities: users are free to update their applications to reflect changes in the processes (new measurements, new equipment, new receipes, etc) and/or match their own business needs.”

Bernard Simons

Chemical Process Engineer at Chemium says:

“WideTech offers a powerful no code software solution with a tailor-made approach and a qualitative relation to its clients.”

Ali HAOURAJI

Global Platforms and Infrastructure, Yara France says:

“From an IT view, WiDE software platform is very easy to install, integrate and deploy into OT/IT environments. We have developed with WideTech team a production accounting system based on WiDE. It makes the bridge between operations and business in an efficient way so that people are best informed.

In few words, it collects and aggregates measurement data from the process, generates information (KPIs, etc.) and escalates that information into our ERP system, all this in an automated way. On top of that, WideTech technical support (IT and business wise) is simply first class… So just “Think WiDE, start small and scale fast!”

Denis GAUDER

Team Lead Digital Assets, IPCOS Belgium says:

“In an increasingly complex landscape of digital solutions for industry 4.0, WiDE offers a great, user-friendly solution for plant users to compile their production reports easily, as well as following plant performance. The combination of a state-of-the-art integration with data historians, user manual inputs and figures approval mechanisms makes it a favourite for the end users.

The integration with ERP’s allows supporting corporate workflows while keeping a great user experience for the factories. Last but not least, WideTech takes an approach where the product is complemented with significant training to ensure that the users can maintain the solution on their own, which is often the secret ingredient for long-term acceptance.”

Fabrice DELFOSSE

Specialist Engineer, John Cockerill Environment Belgium says:

“We deployed WiDE on a pilot unit installed in a container, to monitor and fine tune a new waste water treatment process. We found sereval advantages in using WiDE with respect to the “old way” of gathering and analysing data: ease of connection to the SCADA and its database, friendly dashboards completely configurable by the user, use of Python scripts to derive data and KPIs from the system sensors and raw data,...

The learning curve was also quite fast due to the good support from WideTech’s team and the comprehensive help interface of the software. There is definitely an added value in using such a solution to monitor and understand an industrial process.”

William Freyermuth

Energy & CO2 Coordinator says:

“As suggested by the name, WiDE software allows step by step development for a large range of applications.

The Energy monitoring deployed ensures a common vision for operators, engineers and plant managers to view our Refinery efficiency with a dedicated and user friendly interface.

With WiDE we have saved working time which has enabled it to be spend on real added value tasks. Additionally, we have improved our monitoring system of refinery assets and on top of that made data more reliable and available to all employees.”

Sylvie Francès

Manufacturing expertise department director says:

“WiDE est un outil qui nous a permis de simplifier notre processus de reporting incluant suivi de stock, production, mises au mille, manques à produire,... Il est simple d’utilisation, évolutif voire sans limites. Une équipe projet très à l’écoute et disponible.

L’interfaçage avec nos outils PI/PIAF est très simple à mettre en place. Nous avons restructuré nos données en amont afin de les consolider et maintenir l’outil de façon simple, ce qui a du bon aussi.

2 déclarations SAP en 1 clic ! Et le reporting part en automatique !”

Etienne Claisse

Process Engineer says:

“The WiDE platform has been selected by Inovyn to improve its plant energy performance monitoring system. After a short training, we can say that WiDE is easily configurable and usable and allows to calculate the requested parameters.

At Inovyn, WiDE is used on daily basis to quickly detect any deterioration of plant energy consumptions (steam, electricity, etc.). The main objective is to check whether the plant is in an optimized configuration and if not, take actions in view of improving its energy efficiency and thus its profitability.

From a workflow view, WiDE gathers an aggregates the process measurement data, performs energy indices calculations and alarms in case of deviation, all this in an automated way. It eases the internal monitoring process and allows to get rid of the many Excel files developed by different people, never easy to decode, use and implement when dealing with live data in a production environment.”