What skills are necessary to be a meter technician?
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After working on field instrument maintenance for four years, I feel like I’m not good at it at all. When going out to look for a job, many small companies don’t distinguish between electrical and instrumentation tasks; these people claim to have no experience with electrical work at all and lack any relevant certifications. It really forces me to work entirely in the field of instrumentation, yet I don’t understand DCS; I’m not very familiar even with PLCs. I’m completely clueless when it comes to instrumentation design, and I can’t even use AutoCAD properly. I don’t have the courage to work as an instrumentation salesperson either. I feel like a useless person; I really hope to have a chance to study.
Actually, as long as one has the motivation! Improve professional skills. There’s nothing that can’t be done!
Isn’t the original poster looking for a job? It’s all my fault for not paying attention to building up my work knowledge; did I go out to eat, drink, and have fun as soon as work was over, treating my job merely as a set of routine tasks with no effort to expand my skills?
We have this situation here too; it’s mainly due to a lack of attention to details. When the master was doing it, he didn’t pay attention himself; over time, if one doesn’t make an effort, the master can’t possibly criticize that person.
There must be one's own reasons, after all. My previous company was quite large, with clear divisions of labor; there was no opportunity to learn about DCS systems related to the field instruments. For a while I even bought books to read on the subject, but I couldn’t stick with it and also didn’t have any chance to put it into practice. It feels like working only on-site is really limited, and it’s also hard to find a job.
Let me tell you a secret: at our company, we’re usually not allowed to go inside and configure the DCS, but it’s possible to sneak in during shift hours to take a look
Configuration? This must require an access password, right? Do you mean to go take a look? Are you referring to the cabinet room?
It’s just the configuration; we haven’t started working officially yet, and we don’t have a password either:lol
I have a rough idea of what the situation is like; I’ve been through this before. With the development of new projects, various instruments and valves arrive and are inspected upon unboxing, followed by individual testing and calibration. After that, all the instruments and valves are installed on-site, where further joint calibration is carried out. There are also many people in the control room who are pulling cables, adjusting wires, and so on. As a newcomer, I will also work with multimeters, signal generators, Hart handheld devices (275/375/475), and so on, studying the principles of various instruments as well as the pneumatic systems of valves. Sigh. . . .