Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BIBB)

Designation of occupation

Systems informatics technician
Recognized by ordinance of 3 July 2003, (BGBl. I p. 1144).

Duration of traineeship

3,5 years
The venues for training are company and part-time vocational school (Berufsschule).

Field of activity

Informatics technicians for industrial systems develop, implement and maintain industrial information technology systems.
Typical fields of activity include automation systems, signal and safety systems, information and communications systems, radio engineering systems and embedded systems.
Informatics technicians for industrial systems work independently, observe the relevant regulations and safety rules and coordinate their work with the preceding and following activities. They often work as part of a team. They are qualified electricians within the meaning of the regulations for the prevention of accidents.

Occupational skills

Systems informatics technicians

• support developers in the development and realization of solutions for customers, the analysis of required functionality, the design of systems and software solutions, the selection of data communication media and hardware and software components;

• assemble and test hardware components, install and configure information technology components and devices, install and configure sensors and actuators;

• install and configure operating systems and networks; create user interfaces and user dialogues, implement security mechanisms;

• create software components, adapt standardized software components, program interfaces;
  0 integrate programmes into systems and solve compatibility problems;

• integrate hardware and software components, analyse problems in bringing together hardware and software components and develop suggestions for solutions;

• record and evaluate measured values;

• test components in systems under various ambient technical conditions, integrate systems into existing overall systems;

• provide support in the case of malfunctions;

• analyse disturbances, determine the causes of faults in systems, analyse the source of errors to ensure quality assurance, use test software and diagnostic systems, test signals at interfaces, carry out network-specific tests; eliminate errors by modifying software or by exchanging components or subassemblies;

• also work with English-language documents and communicate in English.
  

Last modified on: July 30, 2007