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...
Operator Performance
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,...
Improving Productivity without Compromising Plant Safety
Our process safety systems team alerted me to a great study on process safety. The Automation.com site shares an Aberdeen Group December 2010 study, A Roadmap for a Safe and Productive Plant. The research study: ...surveyed more than 230 manufacturing executives to...
Human Centered Design in Operator Displays
Emerson's Juan Carlos Bravo highlights the human centered design improvements in the DeltaV version 11 release. His focus in this 5-minute YouTube video is on the DeltaV operator displays. Much of the design comes from the research conducted with the Center for...
Sharing How to Solve a Browser Security Issue
One of the things that makes some blogs so valuable is the technical expertise they can share with words, pictures, audio, and video. One example is Bruce Greenwald's Process Control Musings blog. Bruce is a VP of engineering services for the RE Mason Company, an...
Transferring Plant Operator Expertise
Chemical Processing magazine has a great article, Build Operator Expertise Faster, written by folks from the Center for Operator Performance (COPS). The article provides recommendations for how best to transfer the expertise of experienced plant operators who are...
Batch On-Line Data Analytics
At Emerson Exchange 2009, Lubrizol's Bob Wojewodka and Emerson's Terry Blevins presented, Benefits Achieved Using On-Line Data Analytics. Lubrizol and Emerson have worked together to develop on-line batch analytics as a beta test. The objective was to demonstrate...
Can DCS HMI Impact Operator Performance?
So asks one of the liveliest conversations going on the Process Automation Usability Project site. The thread begins with an observation by the Putman Media staff: Many recent accidents have clearly identified the contribution of bad alarm management practices as a...
Hot Cutovers Help Provide Operator Learning Curve Time
Today is the first of two guest blog posts this week. Aaron Crews graciously agreed to write this while I'm goofing off this week on vacation. Thanks Aaron! Jim is a brave soul to hand over the keys to the blog while he's on vacation this week. Hopefully I don't do...
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