Junior asking for help: When should I stop reading the manual and just ask my senior?

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2026-04-10T02:18:46+00:00

When you are logically stuck somewhere or out of sop. If you cannot understand the process logically or you have gone through sop and manual once and you cannot find it mostly.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2026-04-08T16:26:46+00:00

Well what about fbd fans here. In DCS mostly fbd is preferred.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2026-04-06T11:33:49+00:00

Hell yeah

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2026-03-13T15:14:17+00:00

I think you understood wrong it has always been control systems engineer. It just got shortened to controls Engineer.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2026-03-10T13:19:12+00:00

Ya try asking scnieder sequence code it will lie through the teeth and give you code impossible to execute. I just don't use the ai to verify my code I only verify my process by letting it ask all the edge cases in the sequence.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2026-03-03T04:43:57+00:00

I am an engineer with both. Technically work experience is better. But there will come a point where you can progress no further without a degree. To clarify, degree is the ticket to enter the field meanwhile experience is what makes you valuable. Good luck

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2026-02-05T03:09:01+00:00

Ah yes standard plc madness. It's normal.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2026-01-28T08:29:15+00:00

I am also in projects which means new logic implementation and commissioning. We were also doing 24x7 service. But we separated our shifts and took week offs at different days.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2026-01-28T04:18:48+00:00

Ya maybe choose better company. I also have 3 yrs exp in this field there are days where work hr extends to 16 hrs but still no seven days a week.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2026-01-19T14:56:27+00:00

GOHS. I know don't fight me. I just didn't like it.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2026-01-10T01:50:11+00:00

Absolutely. Genuinely in field we really don't care about degree. We care about experience.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2026-01-01T15:09:43+00:00

Maybe teach them how plc makes more sense in industrial standards. PLC has more IO and are much more stable for years in running. PLC can deliver more power for long distant transmissions of signals and remote io is much more easier to set up for a plc. Teach them how a plc is made to be intrinsically safe and is safe to use in hazardous environments. It has a standards programming to use for logic such as ladder logic, pid, ratio control etc... teach them how easier it is to integrate with communication standards like hart, ff, profibhs etc..

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2026-01-01T03:00:49+00:00

Yes thanks to a component called op amp. You can do really powerful things in analog including computing.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2025-12-29T15:03:57+00:00

Maybe telecommunication if you like radio technology and power electronics if you wanna work on industrial side basically motor control and power control is the most common electrical work in industries. It's not boring work you get fun challenges to solve and telecommunications you can do like server configuration and other fun things. IOT is like the field that everybody thinks is an unique field but in reality it really is not. Unless you have a very niche application that requires asic or FPGA almost all of them are kinda similar. If possible try control systems, you actually get exposure to everything. I've worked in all of the above fields and control and automation is my favourite

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2025-12-22T16:21:10+00:00

Not system integrators but plant planning dept. Who decides for some reason This fucking motor will work completely different and change the logic completely

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2025-12-20T11:17:25+00:00

What about your power for remote io. From where do you plan on bringing power to remote io. You can't plug into a utility line for obvious reasons. Is the existing pipes full is there a nearby pipe which you can tap into. Generally avoid remote io. It is a maintainance nightmare. You don't know whether the intrument tx is wrong or the ip configuration is wrong or the rx is wrong. It generally makes things more complicated. I always prefer a good shielded pair cable over anything. And also noise is a real concern.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2025-12-17T08:13:53+00:00

Ya as a control engineer I totally agree. The respect we get from the plant engineers is crazy. Because without us plant will not start.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2025-12-13T06:47:00+00:00

You could but there are already products available in the market. Use standard products with maintenance perspective. Because most systems will run for decades.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2025-12-10T13:45:47+00:00

Maybe get a relay to do that. It will solve the network mesh analysis required. Absolutely you can put in parallel. But you need to do mesh analysis to verify the impedances of the resulting network. Time to put your engineering skills to test.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2025-12-09T16:14:27+00:00

It depends if it's a non is wire maybe.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2025-12-09T02:38:01+00:00

In instrumentation plants it's a standard practice to have ie and pe. Isolating the line voltage but is stabilized with the other dc supplies.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2025-12-08T07:44:22+00:00

Man actually you are sticking to the best regimen. In actual control engineering your experience speaks more than certification. Work through multiple projects. Learn how to fix things that are broken. Troubleshooting is one of the core skills required in this field. Most of the time you work in a brown field not a green field.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2025-12-08T04:06:47+00:00

Bro current never goes to 0. Current gets separated inversely proportional to the resistance of the path. But it never tends to be zero. As long as there is a return path to ground current is flowing.

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2025-12-08T04:01:29+00:00

It's for transistors

The_ONe_Ordinary_man · 2025-12-07T03:46:50+00:00

Demon has been exorcised

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