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ENGINEERING ETHICS

AutomationTop Team — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:22:25 +0000

MSc Janusz E. – electrician walking around the plant. He replaces blown fuses with a nail, and he makes jumpers from uninsulated piece of wire. Our electrician graduated from the university of technology not so long ago. Although, he really blew off his whole education, he obtained a master’s degree… Master of Science. Immediately after […]

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MURPHY’S LAW IN MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT

AutomationTop Team — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 13:40:55 +0000

I’ve been working for a long time as a maintenance specialist. During work I had so many situations and I can talk about them for hours. There are always surprising conclusions from these situations. Someone will say that it’s coincidence, fait, destiny; other will call it Murphy’s law. Here is the collection of this law […]

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STORY ABOUT CHANGING SIEMENS S5 PLC CONTROLLER TO SIEMENS S7

AutomationTop Team — Mon, 04 May 2020 11:54:51 +0000

It wasn’t easy at all! There was no good description of the program, there were no pages in the documentation, and there was no time or opportunity for efficient change. But it worked! 72 inputs and 48 outputs from the old PLC. A story about how I replaced the Simatic S5 PLC from the late […]

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EXPERIENCE DURING STUDIES – HOW TO GET IT?

AutomationTop Team — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:50:49 +0000

I will ask you a question. Do you treat your studies as a compulsory duty, or rather as investment in your future life? If you study because you think that you’re supposed to do this and you just enter the title in your resume, unfortunately you’re just going to waste your time. If you have […]

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AUTOMATION SPECIALIST IS NEVER TOUCHED BY THE CURRENT

AutomationTop Team — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:02:05 +0000

Everyone knows the saying “electrician is never touched by the current” or “electricity doesn’t’ kill an electric guy” and how is it with automation specialists? It happens that sometimes we have to bury ourselves in the wires during modernizing some kind of control system. Sometimes we have to roll up our sleeves and take care […]

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5S METHODOLOGY – CREATING AND MAINTAINING A WELL ORGANIZED WORKPLACE

AutomationTop Team — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:04:00 +0000

We spend a lot of hours at work, it’s a fact, we all want is to work pleasantly on designing, programming, machine building, diagnostics, etc. But if we do not take care of our workplace, the time in work will get longer, work will frustrate us and our productivity will fall. And what follows this […]

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STORY ABOUT CAUSING THE BREAKDOWN FROM A DISTANCE OF 350 KM

AutomationTop Team — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:24:17 +0000

I am at work and I’m doing an activity that I have done hundreds of times. There are no mistakes, because the case is extremely easy! It was easy at that time, but the situation changed the next day :). I would like to tell you a story of how, due to my carelessness and […]

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