CurrySoSpicy

yes, my official job title is a process instrumentation and control systems technician. Most all of my calibrations are electronic. i do not deal with any calipers, hardness testers or anything mechanical like that. My friend who i work with handles that type of work. I have actually never been called a metrologist. In industry that is title usually reserved for the mechanical calibrations guys like my friend.

In industry they call us control systems technicians. While metrology is a major facet of my job. I am also in charge of troubleshooting and installing the equipment the sensors feed into, such as PLCs for example. Also, I work on motors, valves, pneumatic and hydraulic systems. So one day i will be checking temp probes at a food plant for accuracy, the next day i will be troubleshooting a heat treating furnace, and the following day i will going up and down manholes calibrating flow meters for sewer departments.

Basically anywhere a raw material is put through a process of steps and a finished product is made is where i will work. That could be anywhere from a waste water or water plant to a pharmaceutical factory.

I'm working on passing my industries version of "bar exams". After that, my job title will change to CCST, certified control systems technician.

zkeifer

I straight up died when I read this lol

War Eagle

Neat! Ive always wondered what 'other' things metrologists do and now i know. My company uses garber

CurrySoSpicy

Yea Garber is like a semi competitor of ours. They are strictly metrologists, they are not control system techs. We actually get a lot of business for them backhandedly, much to their chagrin.

They typically will come into a factory and calibrate some process control equipment or instruments. Find a bunch of failures and write them up. However, they only understand how to calibrate instruments and feed signals into things. They don't have a grasp on how control systems work and don't really have a clue how to fix the stuff. So the customer will end up looking for a local control system tech and find us in the yellow pages. We show up and fix the problem and the customer realizes we also provide calibrations. Then the customer will go with us and dump Garber because we are a one-stop shop: sales, service and system design.

Garber is really king when it comes to weight measurement systems like big truck scales and that sort of thing. Which genreally are not a part of control systems, so those type of instruments tend to fall out of our perview. Although, we do calibrate small lab scales and balances. They only got into process instrumentation calibrations about 12 or so years ago. Apparently, at the time they hired some dude from the military that had electronic calibration experience. I guess they gave him the ball and let him run with it. They sent out a bunch a leaflets to local industries and offered super low pricing. Like so low you wondered how they made a dime. We ending up losing one customer, a wire mill in Hanover. The day after Garber were done with their "calibrations" we had to go back in and fix a bunch stuff they ****ed up. They got into pushing buttons on temperature controllers trying to add calibration offset and ended up changing a bunch of the parameters. The wire mill went to fire the equipment up the next shift and whizzzzz some of the stuff didn't quite work right.

CurrySoSpicy

I know, I feel like such a dweeb.

Kate0III0

What r those rims. The are nice. Love it clean.

CurrySoSpicy

What post are you referring to? Make sure you use the quote button so we know what you're talking about, there are no less then 1200 pages on this thread.

War Eagle

Rockin. You might do stuff at my lab, no clue! We have lots of systems that im sure youre familiar with

thanks theyre spyderlocks!

CurrySoSpicy

Where are you workin' man?

zkeifer

lol it's okay not every one knows lol

War Eagle

I work for eurofins

CurrySoSpicy

Lancaster Labs then? Never been there, drive by it a couple times a year when I go to do PMs at Case New Holland.

Thanks, now I don't feel so bad! But it wouldn't be a "club" if we did harass each other.

War Eagle

you betcha. Its very similar to other labs ive worked in, but is growing super rapidly...i think theyre building another huge facility this spring with another walk way to it...

CurrySoSpicy

Wow that's crazy, my wife had a friend who worked there. She really liked it, I can't remember exactly what she did but she always used to talk about populating Petri dishes. Well she got pregnant with twins and quit. LOL.

War Eagle

ha thats what my gf does in microbiology dept.

its a nice place to work, im hoping that trump doesnt cut EPA spending otherwise my job goes down the toilet...