-: So, my name is Katie Heideman
and I start up water treatment plants
for General Electric.
So, what that means is
there are customers around the world
who want to use our water
so, say your drinking water
or your sewage,
Where does your toilet flush to?
Intel uses a lot of
our water for Ultrapure water
and so, what I would do is go in
and the plant would be sold already
and I would go ahead and set it all up.
That includes, like,
making sure pumps start correctly,
making sure the processes
set up correctly,
and troubleshooting electrical issues
in the design.
I use a lot of, like,
referencing of engineering documents,
so all that
all that reading you had to do for labs
actually paid off.
I also make sure that
there's no bugs or anything.
So, if the software is incorrect,
different things can happen.
Like, pipes can blow up
or you can get really poor quality of water.
So, I guess my main descriptor
or my main, like, benchmark
is how good of water are we getting
and how much wear and tear
is on the equipment.
So, I'll have some preliminary tests
to make sure that
the conductivity is correct
and just some other basic things like pH.
Are theses things kind of working as we expect?
But, at the end of the day,
depending who the customer is,
is who is gonna be in charge of testing.
So, wastewater plants have to meet
certain city requirements
so that they can discharge into lakes and rivers.
Big microchip companies
want to have their own testing,
because they really need very pure water
and they don't want to trust anyone
to their design.
And drinking water customers,
we do some testing,
but once again,
the city does as well.
My biggest tool would be a virtual machine
that has Allen-Bradley software on it.
So, this is something I didn't do in college.
At all, actually.
But I'm actually surprised
since it's pretty big in the world nowadays.
It's called ControlLogix
and using PLCs as controllers
to do work with machines, essentially.
So, that's like my biggest tool,
is the software that runs the PLC,
which runs the rest of the plant.
So, that's what I would say
the biggest one is.
Just some other things,
general chemistry is always helpful to know.
Basically, how water works
is a lot of general chemistry things.
And then, there's also just some basic tools
like screwdrivers and hammers and what not.
All things I didn't necessarily
pick up in school,
but you know,
if you've ever fixed stuff before.