Overview

The workshop will explain many of today's current challenges with control room design and how standards and best practices are currently addressing many of these issues. It will address what methodologies are being used to guide designers to meet all the requirements of both company internal and International standards. Many control rooms have contributed to Organisational Accidents and the webinar will cover how a complete design can lead to a High Performance Control Room environment addressing the practices and tools used by operators to safely and efficiently monitor highly hazardous and safety critical systems.

We will demonstrate how a simple step methodology can fix many of the gaps generated by independent designers, such as workload studies, alarm management, high performance HMI, Screen physical layout and design, console designs influence the design of the control room. We will discuss new practices that are integrating other disciplines into the control room environment found in many Integrated Operations Centers (IOCs). Finally, we will focus on what does good look like and how you can confirm you have meet today's standards and practices.

Speaker

Ian Nimmo, CEO & Founder, User Centered Design Services

Ian served 20 years with Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd At the ICI Teesside Operations Complex where he was in charge of all Process Control Systems. He moved to the USA where he was a Senior Engineering Fellow with Honeywell and was the Program Director of the ASM Consortium for ten years. He then founded UCDS Inc and has been doing Control Room Design, HP-HMI, Alarm Management, Workload studies and console layout design.

Ian is A Senior Life Fellow with ISA, Member IET, HFES, member NSPE and was inducted into the Automation Hall of Fame in 2020.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter's own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Process Management and Control Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

Time

15:00–16:00 BST.

Software

The presentation will be delivered via GoToWebinar®. Check system requirements.

You are advised to join the webinar at least ten minutes before the scheduled start time, to allow for your computer to connect.