Key Performance Indicator for I&C Design Engineer

You should have accepted the course. It was in Vegas and had dancing girls

I actually don't get your entire set of thinking here. But I will say that when you have a disaster like we recently had in the Gulf you can't quantify efficiency. They went "faster" then they should have. They should have proceeded "slower". In this case they were pushing their technology to it's limit. There wasn't a standard, agreed upon set of indicators to use. This is how accidents and learning evolve. Codes and practices from just 10 years can be outdated long before some official body sanctions the new changes. So to reply to your question, no we can not.

The only really key criteria I've found in business is the ability to communicate clearly to anyone their ideas and concerns. Far too often people forget that everything in business hinges on clear communication. A brilliant mind that cannot explain itself is a useful as an empty flower pot in an engineering team. All to often, the questions a person asks speaks louder than the answers they've gotten right.

This is from an earlier post of yours. I'd think an instrumentation and control engineer would have some notion of, "how the control system will look like of the whole project"

Are you new to the field?

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05/18/2011 2:48 AM

Dears

I am I&C engineer, i am going to start a new project to build 3 gas turbine 50MW each with a generation voltage 22kV, then step up to 220kV, and step down to 11kV.

how the control system will look like of the whole project??

A few more inputs are required before anything can be written/proposed for standization.

If it is about a team working in a project or is a maintenance crew? Is the team responsible for design or erection and commissioning? Do the cost control measures including troubleshooting/repairing part of the maint job(I dont consider replacement a defective instrument with a completely new one, an act of maintenance.)

Answers to the above can help replying to your question,Regards, MSV

Products=Quality+Time+Cost...pick two and you can calculate the other.

KPIs are a sure route to finding a group of people that manipulate your system to work to their benefit, since those kind of people will gravitate towards a system that rewards conformance and paper progress over real progress. You can use them, but I would suggest keeping them as guidelines rather than tools for evaluating employees.

If you have an engineer that specifies the wrong type of level transmitter for a critical service ten times over but does it more quickly than another, who is going to meet their KPI? Especially since the plant won't come online for another two years. Or you may have an engineer that specifies one system over another because it saves money and says it will do the same thing but another engineer who thinks that putting in a new, untested system may not be worth saving $200,000 if it puts the $20,000,000 annual profit of the facility in doubt.

Luckily, we aren't all robots yet and thus produce items of varying quality, accuracy, and quantity so standardizing your people will be a sure way of producing a mediocre product. Conduct a rigorous hiring process that weeds out losers and then actually manage your people to help them grow in their strengths and shore up their weaknesses. They must pay these managers to do something at some point.