Summary
Peter Milway is an experienced industrial automation engineer and owner with over 35 years designing, coding, testing and commissioning control systems across steel, aluminum and paper industries worldwide. He specializes in PLC and HMI systems (GE Fanuc, Allen Bradley, Modicon, CIMPLICITY, InTouch/ArchestrA) and couples that with database, machine vision and custom software expertise (C/C++, C#, Objective-C, MS SQL, ASP.NET). Peter has led greenfield mill installations and complex retrofits, delivering solutions from low-level ladder logic to Level 2 model interfaces and real-time reporting/OEE systems. He regularly provides on-site global commissioning and has a track record of inventing practical workarounds—such as decompiling unsupported HMI screens—to migrate legacy systems without process changes. Based in Santa Fe, he runs Joalah Designs LLC, contracting for international ports, mills and manufacturers and integrating vision systems with enterprise reporting. His background in both hands-on trade-level collaboration and senior customer management gives him rare end-to-end ownership of industrial control projects.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BE (Hons II) Electrical and Computer Systems, BE (Hons II) Electrical and Computer Systems at Monash University