Throughout my career, I’ve learned a lot of tips. Most of the time these tips came from the school of hard knocks but sometimes I was lucky enough to have someone come beside me and share the knowledge they gained.
Well in this episode I’m doing just that! I’m going to teach you 7 of the most valuable tips I’ve learned in my career. Now at first glance, these tips may seem basic. However, their effectiveness lies in their simplicity. So sit back, relax, and get your learn on!
In this episode you will learn:
- My processes for working through almost any design or troubleshooting challenge
- Why the way you install your BAS has a tremendous effect on how you operate it
- How training your customer can massively decrease your warranty calls
- Why the as-builts you’re creating suck and what to do about it
- The most common issue BAS folks experience with IT and how to solve it
- Why it’s ok to bill your customer for 3 hours of work, even if you only worked for 15 minutes
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- My processes for working through almost any design or troubleshooting challenge
- Why the way you install your BAS has a tremendous effect on how you operate it
- How training your customer can massively decrease your warranty calls
- Why the as-builts you’re creating suck and what to do about it
- The most common issue BAS folks experience with IT and how to solve it
- Why it’s ok to bill your customer for 3 hours of work, even if you only worked for 15 minutes
Hi Phil,
I think it is great you try to give your “experience” to the people in our industry branch (from my point of view you are a still youngster!).
I started with heating control in gravityy heatings in 1960! Later as an electrical engineer (1970) I was the first product marketing manager for the very first heating time optimizer and then a project engineer with Honeywell building and programming the first fully digital BAS (DELTA 2000) in 1972, then for the first full solid state controllers (Micronic), while still doing projects with pneumatic. Then after planning and project leading the controls for the first megachip factory for IBM I could develop an IBM BAS on a Series/1. In 1979 I connected the very first DDCs vial serial communication. After that I got the task to introduce a common protocol for all DDC vendors: FACN. That was the blueprint for BACnet and in Germany the FND protcol.
So I became the project leader for the global BAS standard in ISO and Europe: ISO 16484 (including ASHRAE 135 and the German VDI 3814). I miss in the States people takeing benefit from this common work that is really helpful. In Europe I introduced some other standards that helps BAS people to get a better standing in projects. If you are interested, I can send you information via email. Just see also this:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0ek9krfqt1zl5y/2015%20ControlTrends%20Awards%20Orlando%20Laudatio%20%2B%20Interview.pdf?dl=0
https://de.pinterest.com/pin/95560823321347934/
https://de.pinterest.com/pin/95560823321428337/
Your tips are useful!
Regards
Hans