Honorable Mentions
"It's all in front of me. And I still can't see how Big Data can help us save energy...." by Martin Tremblay
"The only conclusion I can come up with is, "It's 5 o'clock somewhere."" by Craig Koerner
"It was at this point that the plant manager realized the salesman may have taken advantage of him by saying he needed all those instruments at once." by Mike Hibbard
Other Submissions
"Does anybody really know what time it is. . ." by Kerwin Konecsni
"No wonder our project went over budget." by Marvin Sager
"My electrical bill will be insane!!!" by Martin Tremblay
"I must be in some kind of magnetic field. All these compasses are pointing in different directions." by Joe Davis
"Under job pressure? This is my limit!" by Martin Czebotar
"This must be a nightmare brought on by the pipe dreams screen saver." by Christopher Spoor
"I think that labelling these gauges would help." by David Debari
"This is not what I expected from the job description saying there is a "state of the art" Human Machine Interface....." by Orlando Rainey
"Operator overloaded by supurious signals.." by Qasim Shahzad
"Holy cow! Someone must've hacked us!" by Rabih Zayed
"I still don't understand how the WWI submarine commanders drove these things." by Kenneth Russell
"Every time the salesman had a new idea for R&D to try." by Ankur Patel
"If the heart of the plant is instrumentation... this panel represents Frankensteins' monster." by George Hudak
"Gauge (a)maze." by Radhakrishnan Gopinathan
".......if I only had a brain." by Joe Davis
"Fred starts to question the decision to go with 21-out-of-40 voting logic in the shutdown system instead of 2-out-of-3." by Rob Brendel
"If I could just remember the Time he told me to select..." by Jatin Shah
"They told me one of these shows the critical pressure on the reactor and not to let it get to 80% of maximum! Now which one was it?" by George Hudak
"One of these is not like the others... it shows the critical pressure on the reactor. Don't let it get to 80% of maximum!" by George Hudak
"Which one is the specific run away timer?" by Jesús Velázquez
"Thank God for distributed process control systems!" by Denise Pigula
"The only thing worse than trying to find a needle in a haystack is trying to find the correct gauge needle in this mess" by Assem Abdou
"I think that engineer said "second gauge to the right and straight on 'til morning"." by Phil Grimes
"I guess labeling things IS more than just a suggestion." by Phil Grimes
"All these are DUMMIES; how come the ACTUAL one is missing!!!" by Suresh Nama
"A feegelgirk, blazafam, chuklhunk, and what the bleep is a snorgleshlosh? These have to be Wonkametrics." by Joe Davis
"Fred starts to question the decision to go with 21-out-of-40 voting logic in the shutdown system instead of 2-out-of-3." by Rob Brendel
"Well I statistically deduced the best 15 gauges. I then used the sliding scale method to ascertain the top five. Now I will use the foremost scientific method to select the best one...EENIE.MEENIE,MIGHT MOE....." by Chuck Lewis
"The operators are right. Pressure gauge x6y3 is a bit too big and causes confusion." by Albert Walrave
"Calibrate! Calibrate! Calibrate!" by Cora Angeles
"That's the Clock, it's lunch time." by Vijay Sane
"Ok, was it three over, four down, or four over, three down for the upper explosion limit meter? If it's the latter, then we are all going to die!" by Joe Davis
""Where's the computer screen with the trends?" -A millennial looking at an old control system for the first time." by Christina Hermens
"Which one says it good?" by Mike Dolan
"In the words of Scotty, 'damage control is easy, reading Klingon, that's hard."" by Joe Davis
"Now I know why my boss wanted me to 5S these pressure gauges. I am not sure where the Diaphragm Pump A out put pressure gauge is at." by Ismael Ramon