John Schwab, apprentice instrumentation technician, in the control room at Leland Olds Station.
Many processes and systems within a plant happen so automatically that it’s easy to forget someone had a role in getting everything set up just right. Cue the instrumentation technicians.
The instrumentation techs at Leland Olds Station are in charge of the logic, or programming, that controls the plant. While the control room operators monitor screens and run the actual processes throughout the entire plant, the instrumentation technicians manage the logic working in the background.
“The logic might say that a certain system has to be working before another can run, or it could say that a motor has to be running a certain amount of time before a system can begin running,” John Schwab, apprentice instrumentation tech at Leland Olds Station, says. “Everything is programmed so that when it’s time to run a system, everything runs smoothly just like it should.”
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