Hi Guys,
I have been offered a job with a very good multinational company to maintain and troubleshoot their automated equipment. This is a tobacco processing company and uses mostly siemens S7-300's and Simatic Multipanel HMI's and alot of siemens drives mostly on ProfiBus network. They do have a couple of AB and omrons but all new equipments installed since the last 2 years are siemens because they are now trying to follow the companies global standard for automation equipments. The issue is that my experience is mostly with AB controllogix,compactlogix, SLC's, PanelView Standards, PV Plus, DeviceNet and Ethernet. I'm mostly self tought and have been working on automation systems for the past five years. Do you think that my limited knowledge with siemens will give me problems if I accept this offer? I know that this would be a challenge for me to learn a new system but would it be that difficult given that the programming concepts are the same for all brands. I know that a lot of guys here have gone through this in the past and I would like a bit of advice on how you managed a smooth transition. Its certain that this site would be a great help in my learning process but if anyone can recommend me to some other training material online which would assist me in my learning, it would be deeply appreciated. Looking forward to your recommendations and suggestions.
Cheers,
I have been offered a job with a very good multinational company to maintain and troubleshoot their automated equipment. This is a tobacco processing company and uses mostly siemens S7-300's and Simatic Multipanel HMI's and alot of siemens drives mostly on ProfiBus network. They do have a couple of AB and omrons but all new equipments installed since the last 2 years are siemens because they are now trying to follow the companies global standard for automation equipments. The issue is that my experience is mostly with AB controllogix,compactlogix, SLC's, PanelView Standards, PV Plus, DeviceNet and Ethernet. I'm mostly self tought and have been working on automation systems for the past five years. Do you think that my limited knowledge with siemens will give me problems if I accept this offer? I know that this would be a challenge for me to learn a new system but would it be that difficult given that the programming concepts are the same for all brands. I know that a lot of guys here have gone through this in the past and I would like a bit of advice on how you managed a smooth transition. Its certain that this site would be a great help in my learning process but if anyone can recommend me to some other training material online which would assist me in my learning, it would be deeply appreciated. Looking forward to your recommendations and suggestions.
Cheers,