I was wondering if anyone here has/or currently uses SCADA? If you have used it or currently do what was your job and did it pay as well as some people claim? Most importantly where did you learn to use it? I have a few follow up questions but I think those are good enough for now, thank you in advance. :beer:
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I assume you mean in the utility industry. I do get paid well. I was taught to use it after college with on the job training. I'm an operator, but if your looking for how to program it then that I have no idea lol.
I use it in my job to monitor sewer pump lift stations at various locations around my city.
That's that we sell, We sell units to monitor sewer lift stations.
My friend works for a large bakery, and they use a plc to SCADA program from Rockwell. So he showed me how they use it and I just thought it was interesting enough to follow up with. I really do appreciate the responses guys, thank you.
Kool, the best part is when SCADA calls me I start making alot of money :beer:
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Who do u work for? We have an office on TN. And just purchased another company in TN.
Who do u work for? We have an office on TN. And just purchased another company in TN.
I am a design engineer for a firm who's main client is a good sized IOU. I do the engineering for replacing and adding SCADA remote terminal units. Unfortunately I hav don't programmed them, the utility takes care of that.
I am a plc programmer/control systems specialist. I program anything from oilterminals, to pipeline sites, municiple water, coal mines, anything you could think of we do. Most of the guys I work with have electrical engineering degrees worked into process engineers and a few have electronically degrees. There are some of the newer guy who have automation degrees from tech schools that specilize in that type of stuff. Let me know what type of questions you have.
City of Mount Juliet, we are just outside of Nashville. I think we deal with Wascon. I manage the camera line inspection crew and don't have much to do with the lift stations unless I'm on call.
I guess my first question would be without going to college is there a way to get into a field that uses this programming on say an entry level? Or is it if you don't have a college degree you won't get looked at and there is no on the job training for these types of jobs? Oh and how long have you been doing what you do and do you still like it?
It all depends. You can do it without a degree. But having experience in the electrical field is a must as in experience with pressure, temperature, and level transmitters along with variable frequency drives, flow meters so on and so forth. A basic knowledge of analog signals and how they work either 4-20ma or 0-10v. The programming side of it has lots of different languages the most common being ladder logic and function block they are realitivly easy to learn if you know what you are controling. Your best bet is to look into some plc programming classes a lot of community colleges have them as well as courses in electronics get some back ground then apply as an I and E tech at some sort of mill or plant and get all the experience you can. Then you can move onto a programming position and already be familiar with what is going on and the basics of process control.
I have been doing this for about 5 or 6 years and love it. I get to make peoples lives easier and I make pretty good money doing it. The downside is that I do have travel a week or so every month or two.
Also a warning And the accountability and responsibility can be down right spooky of something you programmed were to go wrong we are talking millions of dollars in equipment and peoples lives.
Do you have any background in the things I mentioned?
I really don't have the experience BUT my friend that works at the Bakery does and has been teaching me a few things. So I do have a very basic understanding of these things. Last night he let me hop on his computer and use ladder logic, I got to write the program using the ladder logic and I thought it was cool I picked up on it quick and didn't really have a problem...then again it was a basic run/stop switch. Then i got to use a program called logixpro to experiment with what I just learned. I took some pictures too.
My first attempt using ladder logic
and this is the logixpro
My first attempt using ladder logic
and this is the logixpro
That is logix 500. A great way to learn ladder logic. There is aa website that teaches the basics see if you can do some of the projects on there.
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Yeah if you enjoy that take some courses it is a great field to be in but like I said lots of responsibility.
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Yeah if you enjoy that take some courses it is a great field to be in but like I said lots of responsibility.
Awesome thank you I'll be checking that out tonight. I'm use to responsibility in my current job and stressful conditions. But I know this will be on a new level of responsibility.
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