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Mechanical systems: Mechanical systems are building systems that use machines, including plumbing, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems. The incorporation of principles such as heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics are used to properly specify mechanical systems in commercial buildings. Example Article: Codes for boiler control systems and pressure vessels
Electrical power systems: Electrical power systems are a network of electrical components used to supply, transmit and use electric power. Electrical power systems can be broadly divided into the generators that supply the power, the transmission system that carries the power from the generating centers to the load centers and the distribution system that feeds the power to nearby buildings. Example Article: VFD, motor strategies for energy efficiency
Plumbing systems: Plumbing systems are the system of pipes, drains fittings, valves, valve assemblies, and devices installed in a building for the distribution of water for drinking, heating and washing, and the removal of waterborne wastes, and the skilled trade of working with pipes, tubing and plumbing fixtures in such mechanical systems. Example Article: Navigating ASME B31
Fire and life safety systems: All nonresidential buildings have a fire and life safety system to ensure safe occupancy of the building. This is one of the most complex engineering disciplines, as fire protection engineers must account for all engineered systems within the building (HVAC, lighting, alarms, etc.). Keywords: fire, life safety, fire protection engineer, NPFA (National Fire Protection Association). Example Article: Emergency notification systems: Best practices for specifying in schools
Lighting control systems: Lighting designers/engineers work toward achieving the most efficient and effective lighting design for their nonresidential building clients, while ensuring the lighting design achieves the goals of the occupied space. New trends include LEDs (light-emitting diodes) and lighting controls. Keywords: lighting, lighting control, lighting design. Example Article: Lighting control requirements: What's current and what to expect
Building automation systems: All systems within a nonresidential building need to be controlled, including the HVAC system, lighting, and fire and life safety. This topic crosses all disciplines and building types. Keywords: building automation system (BAS), building management system (BMS), building control, automated system. Example Article: Incorporate lighting controls with BAS to save energy
Energy efficiency: Sustainable nonresidential building design has and will continue to have high priority among all engineering disciplines. Designing energy-efficient systems saves energy for building owners and (in the long term) reduces the carbon footprint of the building. Several codes, standards, and organizations are geared toward achieving this goal. Example Article: Economics of energy efficiency for existing buildings
Codes and standards: All building design is dictated by codes and standards—international, national, and local. Each engineering system within the building must meet certain requirements dictated by the authority having jurisdiction and/or the building owner. Top codes/standards engineers refer to include ASHRAE, NFPA, IBC, IFC, EPA, DOE. Example Article: NFPA 92 defines design, testing of smoke control systems

Control systems: A control system is a device, or set of devices, that manages, commands, directs or regulates the behavior of other device(s) or system(s). Industrial control systems are used in industrial production for controlling an equipment or a machine. Example Article: PLC vs. PAC
Information control: Information control refers to the control and data communications found in automation environments or the manufacturing plant floor. A properly orchestrated plant floor environment will likely include a variety of communications, some for Machine to Machine (M2M) communications and some for Machine to Enterprise (M2E) communications. Example Article: The HMI of the future will look very familiar
Control equipment: Control equipment are pieces of equipment that measure the variables of a industrial automation process, direct the process according to control signals from the process computer system, and provide appropriate signal transformation. Example Article: 11 ways piezoelectric motors improve equipment performance
Industrial networking: Industrial networking provides a means to provide constant communication between components of an automated system. A network used to connect devices for factory automation and process control applications. Such networks, which are typically referred to as "buses," (Fieldbus, Modbus, PROFIBUS, etc.), are made up of sensors, actuators and controllers. Example Article: Industrial networking: One network for full enterprise connectivity
System integration: System integration is defined as the process of bringing together the component subsystems into one system and ensuring that the subsystems function together as a system. The system integrator brings together discrete systems utilizing a variety of techniques such as computer networking, enterprise application integration, business process management or manual programming. Example Article: System Integrator Giants of 2013
Education and training: Education and training provides industrial engineers with engineering best practices, how-to guides, and continuing education credits for use in the day-to-day tasks of the industrial and control engineer. Example Article: Training simulators continue to adopt gaming technologies

Plant safety and security: Describes policies and procedures in place to ensure the safety and health of employees within a manufacturing environment. Involves hazard identification and control according to government standards and ongoing safety training and education for employees. Example Article: Improving PPE usage important to ensure manufacturing safety
Maintenance strategy:Maintenance techniques are designed to help determine the condition of in-service equipment in order to predict when maintenance should be performed. This approach promises cost savings over routine or time-based preventive maintenance, because tasks are performed only when warranted.The main promise of Predicted Maintenance is to allow convenient scheduling of corrective maintenance, and to prevent unexpected equipment failures. Example Article: Meshing process safety management with total productive maintenance
Inventory management: The overseeing and controlling of the ordering, storage and use of components that a company will use in the production of the items it will sell as well as the overseeing and controlling of quantities of finished products for sale. Example Article: Don’t let the vortex freeze your maintenance operations
Material handling: Material Handling is the field concerned with solving the pragmatic problems involving the movement, storage, control and protection of materials, goods and products throughout the processes of cleaning, preparation, manufacturing, distribution, consumption and disposal of all related materials, goods and their packaging. Example Article: Staying Ahead of the Curve: Five trends in mechatronics
Labor and production: Labor & production involves all working supervisors and non-supervisory workers engaged in activities involving the production or handling of goods at a manufacturing facility. Example Article: 2013 Salary Survey: New challenges for an aging workforce
Education and training: Education and training provides production employees with engineering best practices, mentoring examples, how-to guides, and contnuing education credits for use in the day-to-day tasks of the plant professional. Example Article: Selecting the right control chart

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