In the minds of Instrumentation Engineer

As an instrumentation engineer, there are few things that we need to know to work in our workplace. the major thing being the process of the plant in which we work. it can be a small shopfloor to a huge oil field. We may be part of a product development group which develops automation products for machines or we may be part of the design and development team which does the detailed engineering for a plant likte sugar plant, power plant, O&G plant, etc. Our job lies somewhere in every aspect of a process as long as it need process control. to control, maintain and sustain process through instruments, we need to understand the process which gives a better edge in the work we do. Instrumentation has its reach from simple valve on/off control to comples logic implementation for closed loop analysis which puts the instrumentation team in control of the whole process. there is also the usage of PLC/DCS in recent times to ease the plant operations which again is partof the instrumentation team's job as only an instrument engineer knows about the process in and out. So an instrumentation engineer should know: 1. process 2. calibration and measurement 3.DCS/PLC 4. PID control analysis and tuning.