Understanding Plant Tips

**Freeman** · 12-14-2008, 05:49 AM

Understanding Plant Tips

For you chemical engineers out there who happen to become a production executive or a process engineer (or what ever position it is named after) who has the responsibility of taking care of the plant, here are some useful tips to ensure you understand the plant as fast possible.

1. Learn all the piping system in your plant. With this you can have better comprehension on the plant process.
2. Learn how to start and stop the plant. This is always the important thing to know. If the plant is having problem - you stop it. If problem solved - start it back.
3. Don't be embarased to ask the supervisors or plant operators about the plant. In most plant, they have been operating the plant for a lot of years. They have tremendous experience on operating the plant and some trouble shooting. You can asked about the plant and asked from a lot of them. Therefore, you'll get more informations from a lot of operators, and most of the time the info that you need will be common.

OK guys I will appreciate your passing the knowledge, informations, skills and tips

**ivanilych** · 12-14-2008, 06:34 AM

agreed, and never underestimate the power of operator experience

**alwaw911** · 01-31-2009, 02:14 PM

i TOTALLY agree with you both!...

**erp** · 03-09-2009, 04:03 PM

You are right. One must be humble to get the knowledge from experienced operators. You must ask them humbly and analyse what they said, think why, what, how always. Do not be arrogant. Humble with knowledge is like giving good smell to gold.