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Automation, Control & Plant Intelligence - Articles, Analysis, Reviews, Interviews & Views
If you can keep your head when the control system
Has gone berserk; they're blaming it on you,
If you can trust the algorithm when all "them" doubt you,
But (just in case) you've thought of Plan Two
If you can tune a PID algorithm in half the time an auto tune can do,
If you can size a valve or check another's
In case they've made a slip up,
As 'ere you used to do
If you can spot in someone's I/O listing
Incompatible signals, before it is too late,
You're on the way to understand the system,
While others falter, perhaps walk out the gate
If you can trust the plant and data given
Though something tells you it is all so wrong
In checking it, you're not to wall be driven
And when you're through, still raise a cheerful song
If connectivity and baud rate fit your jargon
Which last year you had hardly heard at all,
Stand up, be counted, you're on the way to bargain
A salary increment (or overshoot) not small
If you can match each minute of laser printing
With, 60 seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the system, and everything that's in it
But more than all, you're engineer, top gun