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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Update: OPC Xi is now called OPC .NET 3.0. Original post: It's been a while since I've shared an update from Emerson's Lee Neitzel on the OPC Xi standard. If you're not familiar with this new addition to the OPC Foundation's family of communications standards, here...
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...
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