As businesses in the West grapple with the demographic challenge of losing experienced employees to retirement, companies are taking various approaches to capturing and transferring this expertise to their incoming personnel. Emerson's Mark Nixon pointed me to a great...
Operator Performance
Improving Operator Performance via Human Factors Research
Safe operations are a top priority for process manufacturers and producers. One major area affecting process and personnel safety is the capabilities and performance of plant operators. The Center for Operator Performance (COP) consortium brings together: …a diverse...
Refinery Goals to Improve Operator Effectiveness Achieved
Coming out of our recent global consultant meeting here in Austin, I heard a great story from Emerson's Glyn Westlake about a Spanish refinery that wanted to provide their operators with an identical and realistic environment to learn and gain familiarity with both...
iOps Command Centers Connect Experts Together
The growing need for experience and rapidly advancing high-bandwidth communications technology is driving new thinking among process manufacturers on how they manage their operations. The authors of the book, Integrated Operations in the Oil and Gas Industry noted:...
Evolving Role to Integrated Business Operator
As we make final preparations for the Emerson Exchange Americas conference in Dallas next week, I wanted to highlight article by Emerson's Jeff Dymond. The Control Engineering article, The role of the new integrated business operator in an iOps environment,...
Offshoring Control Rooms?
Update: Welcome scadasec Digest readers. Much work needs to be done with cybersecurity technology and work processes before Anand's vision might be realized. Emerson's Anand Iyer explores offshoring control rooms in today's guest post. I wonder what Elmore Leonard...
Bridging Color Sciences with Process Automation
I hate to date myself, but I remember the first color monitors coming into process automation operator workstations in the 1980s when I was a young systems engineer. Having a palette of colors was really nice when putting together displays for our operators on...
Rules for Designing Optimal Operator Interfaces
Emerson's Aaron Crews, Molly Firkins, and Jessica Graham presented, "Rules" for Designing Optimal Operator Displays at the 2012 Emerson Exchange. Their abstract:“How can I design displays in the right way?” No matter whether we are creating, migrating or optimizing...
Building an Effective Alarm Management Program
ChemicalProcessing.com has a great article on how to more effectively manage plant alarms. The article, Make Some Alarming Moves—Tackle distractions that impair operator performance and process efficiency, by exida consulting's Todd Stauffer and Emerson's Kim VanCamp,...
Improving Plant Operation through Better Alarm Management
At the ARC Industry Forum this week in Orlando, Ergon's Steve Elwart shared how they have taken a systematic approach in managing alarms at the refinery to reduce unplanned downtime, avoid equipment failure, and improve operator performance. He opened with an incident...
Operator Performance Research Put into Practice
This week, the Center of Operator Performance (COP) is meeting here in Austin, Texas. I have the opportunity to listen in, and share a few observations with you. You can follow these on my Twitter posts tagged #COPmtg. For those not familiar with the work of this...
Economic, Environmental and Safety Implications in Alarm Management
Managing the alarms in a process manufacturing plant is typically a large part of a plant operator's day. As process complexity has increased, the control system operator interface technologies have also had to improve to better communicate the abnormal conditions,...
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