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I for Instrumentation 

The purpose of an instrumentation engineer is to Conceptualise, Design, Detail, Maintain and Traouble shoot control system for its client/ industry. Changed mindset and government’s compliance put efforts to make safety as first priority against profits and production.
When the word safety comes, I usually comapare it with a vehicle which I am driving and suddenly I have to apply brakes. A good vehicle will immidiately comes to a halt without skid and without harm to any passenger.

“ Know Thyself  ”

An instrumentation engineer- It makes eyes and ears of industry’s happenings.

Its an art and science of measurement and control. To list a few duties, the sensors selection and implementation, troubleshooting of all its funtioning instruments & amp; tuning its brain (control system) for best performance and response.

“Rewards are just tokens, its the Hard-Work that counts”

Automation is the buzz word in process industry, and automation is the core job of instrumentation engineers. Hence, the demand for instrumentation will always be there.  But, how much you can cash on your job, it entirely depends upon, where you stand in the crowd of this field. Largely on country, company and specialization.

e.g. A vendor may be paying lesser to an automation engineer than a comissioning engineer from engineering and construction consultant, though both are doing same nature of job.

“Money saved is the Money Earned – Safety=$$$$$”

Instrumentation engineers design safety system and alarms in industry and responsible for emission and pollution control monitors. If any of the system fails, industry has to face penalties and losses due to failure of compliances and loss of lives of people and image of industry in society also degrades.

“Planning for safer Future”

Most helpful thing while designing could be the lessons from the past, and techniques which didn’t work and the man-made mistakes, or the responses which didn’t work for which those were designed. These lessons could help to design a robust control system which works flawless and is flexible for more add-on control actions which workers learn from their daily activities.

“Change- Replace the existing for better, else get replace by the better, keep your sustenance”

It is one of the most versatile branch of engineering and changing are happening at very fast pace with global compitition. Technology we used to use about ten years ago are now being replaced by more reliable and high speed data communication protocols. Similarly, tecnology being used by industry are getting updated at regular intervals and responsible person should update himself for changes to understand and implement.

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