I'm always in the hunt for stories to tell, and had a chance hallway meeting with Emerson's Tom Wallace when he was in town a few weeks back. You may recall Tom from some of our posts on HART, Foundation fieldbus, EDDL, and FDT. Some of these posts generated quite a...
human-centered design
Human-Centered Design in Action
BayCHI, the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the ACM [Association for Computing Machinery] Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) held a BOF (birds of a feather) session on usability engineering. This session featured a presentation,...
Increased Span and Reduced Complexity in Process Automation
Pipeline magazine has an interesting article, The evolution of automation, which describes some of the ways automation technologies are changing plant environments. The article provides perspectives from several automation suppliers, including Emerson's Phillip Bond....
Human Centered Design Approach for Level Control
You may have heard about the focus on Human Centered Design (HCD) approaches across Emerson Process Management. The importance of this trend was highlighted in a recent Sound Off! blog post on Human Factors Engineering. This HCD focus over the past several years has...
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...
ARC Interview with Peter Zornio on Human Centered Design
Yesterday, I saw two tweets (here and here) from the ARC Advisory Group, from their ARC_Advisory twitter account. These tweets shared news of YouTube interview postings with Emerson Process Management's Chief Strategic Officer, Peter Zornio. In part 1 and part 2 of...
Reducing Complexity to Connect People with Useful Information
Let's close the week with a peek at a new whitepaper from Emerson's DeltaV team, Emerson Process Management's Human Centered Design Philosophy: Conquering Complexity. The team is led by DeltaV brand manager, Rune Reppenhagen. The intent of this human-centered design...
Improving Usability for Maintenance Technicians
Emerson's Adam Lund has a great article, Human Centered Design Supports Improved Job Performance, in the February edition of Maintenance Technology magazine. Adam highlights some reasons why human centered design is growing in importance for process automation...
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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