AN INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
Construction, the word is familiar to everyone mainly with
the picture of civil construction in mind. How a factory is made? How a
refinery is made? How a ship is made? These all to be constructed by mechanical
process and that is mechanical construction to my definition.
Mechanical construction history dates back to metal age where
man became familiar to use metal as the medium in various activities. In the
development of new metal processing methods and inventions of new metal formulations
made the metal applicable to almost all activities.
In the development of metal and its uses necessitated the
requirement of specialized persons for performing activities in metal. The
engineering branch based on mechanical was developed and mechanical engineers
came in to scene.
When come to the mechanical engineering branch, the most
known area where a mechanical engineer can work is the automobile industry. The
requirement of mechanical engineer for refineries, cement plants,
petrochemicals, fertilizer plants, pharmaceuticals and other types of plant
construction and maintenance necessitated specialized mechanical engineer in
these areas and mechanical construction engineer came in to picture.
What are the roles of a mechanical engineer in the field of
construction? He acts as planning engineer, quality control engineer, quality
assurance engineer, erection engineer, piping engineer, structural engineer,
static equipment engineer, rotating equipment engineer, billing engineer,
estimation engineer, pressure testing engineer, commissioning engineer, box-up
engineer, welding engineer, NDT engineer etc.
The implementation of more and more refineries,
petrochemicals, cross country piping’s, pharmaceutical plants etc increased the
requirement of mechanical construction engineer. The increase in requirement
demanded more and more experts/specialists in the field.
The knowledge for working in the mechanical construction
cannot be limited to mechanical engineering related fields also. Familiarity
with Civil, electrical and instrumentation field also needed to some extend to
become successful as a mechanical construction engineer in his career.
Each and every item for this mechanical construction industry
is supplied by other mechanical/ electrical/ instrumentation industries and
those industries also require mechanical engineers for their day to day
activities. There is an interlinked system of requirements of mechanical
engineers everywhere in world where the mechanical works are happening.
A mechanical engineer working in mechanical construction
industry can be called “mechanical construction engineer”. This is to differentiate
the mechanical engineer working in other fields such as automobile industry,
production related functions, logistics related functions etc.
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