Job description
Automation technicians (EFZ) move the technology and communicate with it. They develop, program, build or maintain systems with a high level of competence, great passion and creativity. In this way, they make an important contribution to economic development and quality of life.
Field of work
Automation technicians EFZ work wherever automated systems are in use. Most of them work in the industrial environment of the mechanical, electrical and metal industries (MEM industries), but also in electrical engineering, building technology or transport technology.
Thanks to their versatile and demanding training, they can be used in a wide range of applications. You will work in a networked environment and be in constant exchange with other specialists, customers and suppliers. Her everyday life includes both manual activities and work on the computer. Their workplace is in internal workshops, in the office or directly at the customer's site. Clients are internal and external customers.
Overview of Competencies
a: Development of automated systems
Duty
- a1: Create or revise production documents for automated systems
7777 A.01 - a2: Create sketches of mechanical components or parts of automated systems
7777 A.02 - a3: Planning and parameterizing networks for automated systems
7777 a.03
Compulsory voting
- a4: Dimensioning drives of automated systems
7777 A.04 - a5: create a digital twin of automated systems and put it into operation
7777 A.05 - a6: Modeling Simple Mechanical Components with Computer Aided Design
- 7777 a.06
b: Creation and commissioning of automated systems
Duty
- b1: Setting up and commissioning automated systems
7777 b.01 - b2: Machining or manufacturing mechanical components or components of automated systems
7777 b.02 - b3: Programming software and visualizations of automated systems and testing them with the hardware
7777 b.03 - b4: Installing drives in automated systems and putting them into operation
7777 b.04 - b5: Integrating sensors or intelligent components in automated systems
7777 b.05
Compulsory voting
- b6: Setting up and commissioning control systems in automated systems
7777 b.06 - b7: Complement automated systems with robots and put them into operation
7777 b.07
c: Maintenance of automated systems
Duty
- c1: Maintain or modernize automated systems
7777 c.01 - c2: Check the functions of an automated system
7777 c.02 - c3: Fix errors in the hardware or control software on automated systems
7777 c.03
Compulsory voting
- c4: Maintaining drives of automated systems
7777 c.04 - c5: Monitor process data from automated systems and initiate measures
7777 c.05 - c6: Visualize energy consumption of automated systems and optimize their efficiency
7777 C.06
d: Assumption of operational responsibility
Duty
- d1: Planning project-oriented orders in the field of automation
7777 d.0 - d2: Controlling the Progress of Project-Oriented Orders in the Automation Environment
7777 d.02 - d3: Evaluate results from project-oriented orders in the automation environment
7777 d.03
Compulsory voting
- d4: Take overall technical responsibility for the development of automated systems in an MEM industrial sector
7777 d.04 - d5: Assume overall technical responsibility for the creation and commissioning of automated systems in an MEM industrial sector
7777 d.05 - d6: Assume overall technical responsibility for the maintenance of automated systems in an MEM industrial sector
7777 d.06 - d7: Training customers in the operation of automated systems in an MEM industrial sector
7777 d.07
