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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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