Instrumentation Engineering

Instrumentation Engineers are responsible for planning, installing, monitoring and maintaining control systems and machinery within manufacturing environments. They typically work with control processes that use sensors to provide feedback. As a result, that can also have a role in designing and developing customer products that utilize such processes, such as blood glucose meters or smoke detectors.

Instrumentation engineering focuses on control processes that use sensors as an input.

This field of engineering can be concerned with equipment processes using sensors to observe many types of variables including pressure, pH, voltage, temperature and many more.

Feedback from such sensors can be used throughout the manufacturing process. They can measure and monitor things such as specific machine outputs, the efficiency of systems and, most importantly, safety parameters. They can also play an extremely important part in the monitoring and recording of quality data to ensure the safety and reliability of the final product.

In addition to simply monitoring, the feedback given from these systems and processes can be fed back into the system to alter and control the manufacturing process – optimizing efficiency and safety.

The ultimate aim of instrumentation engineering is to ensure that control machinery and processes are working to achieve maximum productivity in an optimally efficient, safe and reliable manner.