O.H.E.Orhun Habib Erdogan

W-01 · Sep 2025 – Sep 2026 · Veghel · on site in UK + India

Vanderlande

International Controls Project Engineer

Vanderlande builds the systems that move bags through airports and parcels through distribution centres: conveyors, sorters, the software that runs them. Lots of steel, lots of PLCs.

My job was to make those systems work on the customer’s site. Arrive with a team of two to four, get the controls up, prove they do what the spec says, find out why they don’t, and hand it over.

Sites
UK, India
Team
2–4 engineers
Longest stint
6 months, UK
Biggest
XXL loop sorter, 800+ destinations

Fig. 1 — How it fits together · swipe →

Induct ×3Destinations: 800+ on the big oneLoopPLCs · ProfinetFlow controller (Debian)FSC safety

02What I actually did4 steps

01 · Bring-up

Power on, I/O checks, PLCs talking over Profinet, FSC safety in place, the Debian-based flow controller running.

PLCProfinetFSCLinuxCommissioning

03On the job6 figures

A loop sorter snaking through a new distribution centre in India, seen from a mezzanine
Fig. 2 — Loop sorter, India
Two laptops on a desk in front of open control cabinets
Fig. 3 — Office for the week: in front of the cabinets
A long sorter line in a UK distribution centre with yellow safety posts
Fig. 4 — XXL loop sorter, UK
Orhun in a hard hat and hi-vis next to a yellow industrial robot arm
Fig. 5 — UK site
A printed sorter layout marked up by hand with numbered areas
Fig. 6 — Layout, marked up during a shift
Orhun with the site team on a yellow mezzanine above the sorter
Fig. 7 — Site team, India