It used to be that developments in industry found their ways into our homes. Today, the reverse is true more often than not. The technologies we touch in our homes impact industrial product developments. In today's guest post, Emerson's Anand Iyer, a control systems...
Usability
How We Work-Human Centered Design for the Operating Plant
Emerson's Tom Wallace continues his series on the impact of human centered design on the technologies used by automation professionals. In previous blog posts, I shared some of the science behind Human Centered Design (HCD). In this and the next couple of blog posts,...
Are Human-Technology Interactions Solving or Causing Problems? Part 2
Last week, Emerson's Tom Wallace posed the question Are Human-Technology Interactions Solving or Causing Problems? in part one of a two-part series. Today, Tom explores this question by looking at how we learn, how we think, and how this applies to human-technology...
Are Human-Technology Interactions Solving or Causing Problems? Part 1
Process automation engineers' decisions impact everything from project cost and schedule, to uptime, throughput, quality, and safety. Instruments and valves connect the physics and chemistry of your process, and the decisions made by your automation systems and...
Simplifying Human Interfaces via Dashboards
I had a sneak peak at an upcoming article on human interface design by Emerson's Tom Wallace. You may recall Tom from some of our earlier smart device and digital communications protocol posts. In the article, Tom notes the unrelenting drive to simplify, given the...
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,...
Growing Number of Process Automation-Related How To Videos
One of the big benefits that free services such as YouTube has brought us is the proliferation of "how to" videos. Seeing a visual and audio display of someone showing how to do something really speeds up the learning process when compared to text alone, or text with...
Streamlining Automation I/O Rework
My automation-related blogs RSS feed alerted to me to a Control Engineering Asia article, Simplifying Connections, written by Emerson's Nathan Pettus. I'd not yet seen this article published a few months ago. In it, Nathan describes the challenges many project...
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...
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...
A View into the Marshalltown Emerson Innovation Center through Social Media
The big news today is the unveiling of the $30 million Emerson Innovation Center to advance Fisher technology in Marshalltown, Iowa. From the release: The world's appetite for energy is driving the development of next-generation nuclear plants, mega-train liquefied...
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