Given an industrial automation and/or control project, its execution involves the
following stages, namely, site survey, engineering design, prototype implementation,
factory acceptance test, field installation; site acceptance test, and commissioning.
Staff in the unit is usually graduates of electrical engineering or a physical science.
Since the job in the unit is control engineering, staff is required to improve their
knowledge of industrial processes, industrial devices, instrument networking, data
communication, controllers, human machine interface, and computer programming.

The programming and configuration of a plant automation/control system can be
implemented on diverse plat forms which vary with manufactures/supplier. However,
knowledge of these programming languages is essential, namely: Visual Basic,
Structured Query language, Structured Text, Instruction Listing, Sequential function
chart, Function Block Diagram and Ladder Logic Diagram.

The programming and configuration plat forms include: YOKOGAWA Stardom, EMMERSON
Delta V, or SMAR System302 for both human machine interface and control strategy
configuration /programming, WONDERWARE Intouch for human machine interface
implementation, ROCKWELL RSLogix for PLC Ladder Logic Programming. Basically,
these software are used to configure/implement control strategy, design
the human machine interface, and the asset management/production accounting.
Usually included in the software is a server to facilitate access to data at
a plant from field devices.

Literatures are available within the unit on some of the basic sub-disciplines
related to industrial process automation and control. In addition, there are
manufacturers manuals from YOKOGAWA, EMMERSON, SMAR, etc.