The whereabouts of the job of an automated product design engineer.

Average salary: $73983 per year

Roles and responsibilities:

The field of automation involves the creation and application of technology to monitor or control the production and delivery of products and services by the International Society of Automation and the Automation Federation. Automation engineers design, program, simulate and test automated machinery and processes to complete exact tasks. They typically are employed in industries such as car manufacturing or food processing plants, where robots or machines are used to perform specific functions. Automation engineers are responsible for design specifications and other detailed documentation of their creations.

Qualifications:

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that automation engineers must have the following qualities:

• Solid understanding of computer programming and software development
• Ability to troubleshoot equipment problems and perform complex system tests
• Creative thinking skills
• Detail-oriented personality
• Excellent manual dexterity
• Ability to communicate well to other members of the development team

Top online courses:

RPA Lifecycle: Introduction, Discovery, and Design at Coursera:

In this course, the students will be introduced to RPA and see how it is combined with cognitive solutions and analytics to enable organizations to adopt the model of a "Digital Workforce" and help them transform the nature of their work. They will also learn about the first two phases of the RPA implementation lifecycle: Discovery and Design. In the Discovery phase, the students will have to take a set of business processes and identify those that are suitable and beneficial for automation. In the Design phase, they will create a plan for their RPA project. The learning will be reinforced through concept description and guided practice.

Introduction to ONAP: Complete Network Automation at edX:

Open source networking projects are transforming how service providers and enterprises develop, deploy, and scale their networks and next-generation services. The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) project orchestrates and manages physical and virtual network services to bring agility, higher customer satisfaction, and lower costs. This course provides:

The basics of Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

An introduction to The Linux Foundation ONAP project

The challenges ONAP solves

Overview of the ONAP project's architecture, subprojects, and demos

This course is designed to provide a high-level understanding and business perspective of the ONAP project and a guide for navigating, participating, and benefiting from the ONAP community. The course is also meant for vendors who wish to determine how to position or sell their products into the ONAP ecosystem.

Datamine Studio Op: Mine Design Basics at Udemy:

Datamine Studio OP is a complete design and scheduling product for short and medium-term planning of open-pit mines. Packed with functionality for automated reserve generation, pit design, and scheduling, Studio OP makes generating and mine plans simple. This course is for geologists, mining engineers, and geoscientists who are willing to learn a new mining package. Basic knowledge in mining or geology is going to help you a lot to get the most of this course. We will use the latest version of determining and we will cover the basics of the automated pit and dump design in datamine studio op.

Top institutes offering the program:

• LPU Jalandhar – Lovely Professional University: Lovely Professional University is a private university situated in Phagwara, Punjab, India. The university was established in 2005 by Lovely International Trust, under The Lovely Professional University Act, 2005, and started operation in 2006.
• College of Engineering, Trivandrum: The College of Engineering Trivandrum, commonly known as CET, is the first engineering college in Kerala, situated in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala. It was founded in 1939 during the reign of the Travancore King, Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma.
• Manipal Institute of Technology: Manipal Institute of Technology is a private constituent institution of Manipal Academy of Higher Education that specializes in engineering. MIT contains 17 academic departments and awards undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees.

Top recruiters for this job:

Siemens: Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad.

Rockwell Automation: Rockwell Automation, Inc. is an American provider of industrial automation and information technology. Brands include Allen-Bradley and FactoryTalk software. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs over 23,000 people and has customers in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Schneider Electric: Schneider Electric SE is a multinational company providing energy and automation digital solutions for efficiency and sustainability. It addresses homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure, and industries, by combining energy technologies, real-time automation, software, and services.

Honeywell Process Solutions: Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) helps industrial customers around the world operate safe, reliable, efficient, sustainable, and more profitable facilities. We offer leading technologies from the plant floor to the boardroom as well as comprehensive lifecycle services that help to ensure more productive and stable operations. A business unit of Honeywell International, HPS has pioneered process automation control for more than 40 years with a continuous evolution from legacy process control systems to today's leading innovations such as Experion® PKS, protecting our customers' investments in automation assets. With more than 12,000 employees around the world, HPS has the global expertise and breadth of resources to execute projects of every size and complexity in the oil and gas, refining, pulp and paper, industrial power generation, chemicals and petrochemicals, biofuels, life sciences, and metals, minerals and mining industries.

Mitsubishi Electric: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, established on 15 January 1921, is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment manufacturing company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the core companies of Mitsubishi.