USCG-ENG-UNL-L3.4
Automation, control and alarm management
USCG-ENG-UNL-M3 · The Management-Level Engineer · USCG-ENG-UNL-M3-A Running the plant and the department
Automation does not remove the engineer. It moves them, and it changes what they are for. In a manned space the engineer sees the plant. In an unmanned space the engineer sees **what the plant chooses to tell them** — and the difference between those two sentences is the whole discipline of alarm management.
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