Instrumentation and Control Discipline

Based on Industrialization growth is important that one should always remember the design & development aspects to get success. 

As part of this approach any sector may be from Infrastructure, Environmental, Manufacturing Industry, Oil and Gas, Power Generation Refinery, Petrochemical and many other sectors. Understanding the aspects related to Engineering give prime importance to the approach and well planned Project Life Cycle. 

Introduction to Engineering

An Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings.

The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application.

 To carry out these Engineering activities on requires a high understanding the science – Investigate, Understand discovery of nature/composition (law of nature) and build the product /  provide services. 

The engineering discipline mainly works on the multi-discipline approach where each discipline contributes to their vertical. Following are the disciplines involves as part of multi-discipline approach.

Today, there are now six major branches of engineering: mechanical, chemical, civil, electrical, management and geotechnical, and hundreds of different subcategories of engineering under each branch.

As part of this article we are going to cover the functionality of Instrumentation and Control Discipline which includes understanding definition, working as functionality and purpose and application of Instrumentation and Control Discipline.

Overview of Instrumentation & Controls

Instrumentation and control engineering is a branch of engineering that studies the measurement and control of process variables, and the design and implementation of systems that incorporate them.

• Instrumentation and Controls – Measurement, Indication and Control of process variables within a production or manufacturing area.
• Instrumentation and Controls - Responsible for integrating the sensors with the transmitters, recorders, displays & further communication with Control Systems.
• Instrumentation discipline is part of multi-discipline engineering team, involved in complete Project Life Cycle (i.e. Engineering, Construction and Commissioning) and also interface with Operator / Clients / System Vendors and Package Vendors.

For betterment of ones understanding it is very important to understand the concept and their details based on discipline guidelines.  So help out from this we eFunda team made some useful videos to keep your basic and fundamentals right. 

Instrumentation and Control Discipline - Area of Specialization 

As Instrumentation is discipline helps to provide reliable and high efficient production due to application by using automatic control.  

• Biomedical instrumentation
• Analytical instrumentation
• Industrial instrumentation
• Opto electronic instrumentation
• Process control instrumentation
• Control and instrumentation
• Space instrumentation
• Power plant instrumentation
• Automotive instrumentation
• Instrumentation design
• Piping and instrumentation
• Fiber optics and laser instrumentation

 Industries served by Instrumentation and Control Discipline

• Oil and gas
• Steel
• Petrochemical industries
• Power plants
• Pharmaceutical
• Cement
• Fertilizer
• Water treatment plant
• Paper and pulp
• EPC companies(erection procurement construction)

With this article we have tried to cover the importance of engineering discipline and their functionality to improve reliable and accurate result. If you like this article then keep following efunda you tube channel as well this technical blog.

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