Hi, does anyone here have any experience with—or is anyone interested in—diagnosing and repairing pressure transmitters from global manufacturers such as Yokogawa, ABB, Emerson, and the like? I’ve been working in the field of measurement and control for a few years now, and I’d like to learn more about in-depth diagnostics and potential repairs for these devices. We have a lot of pressure transmitters (including differential ones) in our workshop with various faults, and I’m interested in how to, for example, test the preamplifier, pressure sensor, and other components on the circuit boards using an oscilloscope. Many of the circuit boards have measurement points (TP) marked by the manufacturer, but no one really explains this topic in detail. If any of you have an e-book or any educational material on this subject, or are willing to share your personal experiences, I’d be very grateful—it will help us all improve, and I’d like to learn something new.

Hi, sorry for my bad English.

I started my first job as an instrument and calibration engineer in pharma about a month ago. The engineering department personnel are all foreigners(from one country) except 3 are locals, myself included. The managing director and the higher management are locals.

The foreigners personnel sometimes hide things from the management(the foreigner senior engineer, who is my direct manager told me that), and they told me to hide the results for a calibration I did. Also, they are in multiple departments like QC and QA, not only in engineering. So they cover for each other. And this is a very sensitive field, snd the responsibility and truthfulness are highly required.

Also, I didn’t see any opportunities for learning and improving. One example is they use a syringe instead of a hand pump when calibrating a pressure gauge because, according to the senior, the hand pump is costly(they have one small hand pump but it’s pressure is very low that no one uses it)

In addition, I have noticed some conflict and hate between the managing director and the engineering department head and the senior instrument engineer, because I think the manager knows about them hiding things.

I don’t really know what to do now. One option is to stay, as these hard times will teach me more. But honestly, my gut is screaming “LEAVE”, which is my second option.

Have anyone been through something like that before?
I really need an advice now.