PG Glass is the leading glass retailer in Southern Africa, specialising in installing new and replacement automotive and building glass. Through a branch network of 130 fitment centres, PG Glass offers a comprehensive glass installation and replacement service to insurance, fleet trade and individual customers.<\/p>\n
A challenging position exists in the Engineering Department at PFG Building Glass, Springs, for a graduate electrical\/ electronic engineer reporting to the Senior Control Engineer.<\/p>\n
Responsibilities:<\/strong><\/p>\n The float glass manufacturing process makes extensive use of PLC and SCADA control systems to do the following types of control:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Very accurate mixing of dry raw materials (such as sand and dolomite) for the glass process The engineer will be assigned an area of responsibility in one of the above areas once a good overall working knowledge of the control systems in each area of the factory has been obtained \u2022 Sc Engineering or B Engineering (Electrical\/Electronic) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PG Glass is the leading glass retailer in Southern Africa, specialising in installing new and replacement automotive and building glass. Through a branch network of 130 fitment centres, PG Glass…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\u2022 Continuous control for the glass melting and annealing process. This includes extensive use of PID control loops with scope for advanced control, such as model-based multivariable control.
\n\u2022 High-speed discrete control for the glass cutting and packaging process.
\n\u2022 Extensive use of variable frequency drives in all areas.
\n\u2022 Extensive use of Ethernet Networking, for all levels of communication.
\n\u2022 Control of the operation of large diesel generators to automatically start and switch in the event of power failure. PFG have in excess of 10MVA installed emergency generating capacity.
\n\u2022 SCADA systems for supervisory control
\n\u2022 An interface between the control system environment and the following: a data historian
\nan MIS system, SAP<\/p>\n
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\nRequirements<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 1-3 Years experrence
\n\u2022 A specific interest in industrial software and control using PLCs, variable speed drives servo system, SCADA systems and integration of specialised external systems.<\/p>\n