Control rooms' design in industrial facilities

✍ Scribed by Najmedin Meshkati

• Book ID: 102243261
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 66 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1090-8471
• DOI: 10.1002/hfm.10043

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A technological system's overall performance, which is an aggregate of its safety, reliability, and efficiency indicators, is a function of its control room operators' performance. Operators' performance is also strongly determined and moderated by the design of the control room. Moreover, today's complex industrial facilities require operators to continually adapt to new and unforeseen changes in technological system and environmental demands. There is no clear‐cut distinction between system design and operation since the operator will have to match system properties to changing demands and operating conditions. Thus, this continuous process needs a cohesive and integrated framework for information gathering from the interfaces, analysis according to operators' task demand, and decision making within the organizational and regulatory contexts of the technological system. Therefore, there is a need to approach human factors in a more global and systematic manner, which includes integration of display systems design, task demands, and with operators' information processing behavior. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Hum Factors Man 13: 269–277, 2003.