What is the future of the instrumentation industry? I hope everyone can offer their suggestions!
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This post was last edited by Wang Tianze on 2017-2-26 at 13:49. After graduating, I worked for 11 years at a flow meter manufacturing company, handling tasks related to production, calibration, after-sales service, and sales. After leaving the company, I founded a trading company with some friends; it deals mainly in industrial automation products such as flow meters and level gauges. Since last year, the company’s performance has not been very good. Since I only have knowledge of industrial automation instruments and nothing about other industries, I now want to establish a professional after-sales service company for such instruments, aiming to serve two types of customers: 1. Instrument manufacturers (many of whom do not have technicians in various locations, so they face the need to travel to different places; my company can provide them with services), and 2. Instrument users (when there are problems with the instruments and the users are unable to adjust them, my company can offer on-site support). There are currently no companies that provide this kind of service, and I’m not sure if everyone thinks this is feasible. Another concern is the staff – I’m worried that those working remotely may not have sufficient technical expertise. Please suggest
Didi Chauffeur in the instrumentation industry?
Outsourcing the maintenance of instruments seems to be the trend of the future; many small factories these days focus only on production and outsource all maintenance tasks. I also want to start a company. If I can build good relationships with calibration laboratories, enabling me to carry out repairs, adjustments, and issue certificates, it will definitely have a promising future.
The choice of instrument manufacturers should be more reliable; given the current situation in China and various institutional issues, users are not optimistic about this
It seems that for instrument maintenance, we are now relying on engineers to handle it, while leaving the rest to the maintenance service providers. If the company has sufficient resources, it would be more reliable to establish its own instrument maintenance team
The main challenge for companies in the instrument maintenance sector is the issue of qualifications. What kind of qualifications determine what kind of work one can take on. It’s difficult to get into larger companies for maintenance work without higher qualifications. And it’s extremely difficult to obtain such qualifications. You know, in this bureaucratic society, it’s hard to get anything without money as a prerequisite. The instrument maintenance company that came to our company to bid for projects reportedly spent over 10 million to obtain a higher-level qualification.
I’m not very familiar with the instrumentation industry, but I support the original poster’s entrepreneurial efforts.