Ir. Bart Van Brabant began his career at Engie as a technical analyst within the Industrial Solution team of the IT department. With a passion for problem solving and forming the bridge between users and technology, he specialized in functional analysis and user support on the PI System and relational database systems and is currently leading the functional analysis and AF training activities at the Operational Technology team of the IS department within Engie's Business Unit Generation. He assisted in the design and integration of various OT systems with PI, such as LIMS and CEMS. Thereby focusing on the usage of AF as a modelling layer for applications. His educational background is a Master of Bioscience engineering in Cellular and Genetic Engineering and Bio-Informatics.