Pro-tips exist to make you a better automation professional. Or into an automation professional, as it may be.
Plant staff will realize that you can either make their jobs much safer or replace them. You should make your operators more efficient and therefore more valuable to their employers. (If you cannot pay them more, you can at least keep their jobs.) Help them make more widgets per hour, allow them to move from running equipment to maintaining it, etc.
The same could be said about training. A skilled employee is hard to replace, while a new guy is not. The employee who is the only one who can make a machine work cannot readily be replaced.
Some operators, often the older ones, will intentionally teach people the wrong thing or intentionally skip steps in training. Hence, they may not show people exactly how to do things.
If you encounter equipment that only a few of your staff can, just call the vendor. They probably know what is happening and what is being left out of the training.
Note: It may be unintentional, but you cannot really rule it out.
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