Automation

Maintain and optimize technology in support of process or manufacturing equipment and systems.

Critical Work Functions

• 4.3.1 Support the installation, customization, or upgrading of equipment

• 4.3.2 Utilize predictive maintenance techniques

• 4.3.3 Apply preventive maintenance to ensure production or industrial process runs smoothly

• 4.3.4 Identify, diagnose, and/or repair equipment problems

• 4.3.5 Communicate with others to ensure maintenance and repairs meet operational needs

• 4.3.6 Maintain hands-on knowledge of equipment operations

• 4.3.7 Maintain equipment, tools, systems, and workstations

• 4.3.8 Understand maintenance impact on critical operations

• 4.3.9 General skills
• • Basic disassembly/assembly skills
  • Installation and calibration of instrumentation
  • Design and document equipment/system/process improvements
  • Equipment/system/process troubleshooting
  • Installation of parts for industrial equipment
  • Schematic drawings, models, and control documents
  • Use of hardware and software tools

• 4.3.10 Maintenance, installation, and repair skills (including but not limited to a basic knowledge of)
• • Networking and communications systems
  • Programmable/configurable systems
  • Electrical/electronic systems
  • Hydraulic/pneumatic systems
  • Mechanical power transmission systems
  • Mechanical systems
  • Piping operations and equipment installation best practices

• 4.3.11 Reliability and maintainability
• • Analysis of failure data
  • Root cause analysis
  • Basic reliability models
  • Documentation requirements
  • Investigative techniques
  • Alarm and event analysis