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Beville's Media Coverage
| Podcasts | Year | Media |
| Unlocking Effective Alarm Management This episode delivers expert insights on overcoming misconceptions and ensuring operator efficiency in process industries |
2023 | Chemical Processing |
| Study Reveals Advanced Process Control Can Degrade Operator Skills Findings, recommendations, and interventions to maintain operator skills are explored in this latest Distilled podcast episode. |
2023 | Chemical Processing |
| Articles | Year | Media |
| Visualize Virtual Reality Blessings and Burdens Careful consideration of training objectives and challenges is necessary to maximize the benefits of virtual reality technology. |
2023 | Chemical Processing |
| Vestiges of ‘The Right Stuff’ Will curiosity and intelligence dwindle due to the pervasive availability of Google, AI, ChatGPT and the pointless distraction of social media? |
2023 | Control Global |
| Meet 2021 ISA Fellow David Strobhar ISA Fellows designation recognizes David Strobhar, for his significant contributions to the area of human factors in automation. |
2021 | International Society of Automation |
| How Good Are Techniques For Handling Abnormal Situations? A test of alarm management and upset automation with real operators provides insights |
2021 | Chemical Processing |
| COP Benchmarking Shows Wide Variance In Operator Training The Center for Operator Performance completes benchmarking on current operator training practices to better understand opportunities for improvement. |
2019 | Chemical Processing |
| Knowledge Transfer: Plants Seek The Right Recipe For Seasoning Efforts aim to more effectively gather and pass along insights of veteran personnel. |
2018 | Chemical Processing |
| The Human Factors of Panel Layout Basic tips to make your panel easier to use with fewer errors. |
2017 | Control Design |
| ISA presents standards and practices awards Five recipients lauded for outstanding efforts that resulted in ISA standards or technical reports, or significant outcomes for an ISA standards committee. |
2016 | Control Global |
| Leverage human strengths in operational design Have machines do what they do well, and do the same for your human operators. |
2016 | Control Global |
| Do You Have HMI Design Backward? Did you know background color is the least important element? |
2016 | Control Design |
| Here's What to Look for in Operator Displays Use the 4-Second Rule: Can it tell you what you need to know in 4 seconds? |
2015 | Control Global |
| Bring Your Procedures into the 21st Century |
2015 | Chemical Processing |
| Changing Workforce Drives Control Room Modernization Process industries are experiencing many challenges on many fronts: modernization projects, a younger workforce, data integration, new workflows. These drivers are asking control rooms to evolve and expand with the help of mobile and collaboration technologies. |
2013 | Automation World |
| Operator Performance Gets Better Prioritized Data, Simpler Displays, Human-Factors-Designed Equipment, Fatigue-Reduction Efforts, Alarm Planning and Other Tools Can All Improve Situational Awareness and Operator Performance. So How Much Do You Need of Each? |
2013 | Control Magazine |
| The Keys to Operator Performance Operator error rates double on the ninth day of work after eight days of consistent performance. |
2012 | Control Design |
| How to Build a Better Operator - ABB Automation & Power World Collaborative research effort looks for keys to improved effectiveness. |
2012 | Control Design |
| Human Factors Issues in Oil and Chemical Processing Presented at the American Nuclear Society Conference, San Diego, CA |
2012 | American Nuclear Society |
| Operator Interfaces: Moving from Comfortable to Most Effective Continuous process industries have spent almost 20 years analyzing how control system interfaces and alarm management policies help or hinder plant performance. So what are the best practices, and why aren’t they being implemented? |
2012 | Automation World |
| DCS Console Operator Issues in Related Industries 2011 TAPPI PEERS Conference, Portland, OR |
2011 | Center for Operator Performance |
| How Many Alarms Can An Operator Handle? Two recent studies provide insight. |
2011 | Chemical Processing |
| Modularizing Emergency Procedures for Increased Ease of Use and Updating NPRA 2011 Annual Meeting, product # AM-11-44 |
2011 | Center for Operator Performance |
| Operator Performance Research Put Into Practice |
2011 | Emerson Process Experts |
| Operator Training Gains Ground Initiatives build on established methods as well as emerging technology. |
2011 | Chemical Processing |
| Service Extraction from Operator Procedures in Process Industries 2011 DESRIST Conference |
2011 | DESRIST/Springer.com |
| Simple, Strong, and Easy-to-Use User-Centered Design Makes Operators More Aware of Their Processes and Better Able to Respond Fast |
2010 | Control Global |
| Collaboration Picks Up Speed Industry and academia pull together harder |
2010 | Chemical Processing |
| Consortium Reports New Findings on Alarm Rates New research funded by the Center for Operator Performance shows that process operators may perform better at high alarm rates when alarms are grouped by priority, rather than chronologically. |
2010 | Automation World |
| Control Systems, Oh, No...Not Again! The Process Industries Have Been Faced with a Continuing Series of Refinery, Chemical Plant, Mining and Even Food Plant Disasters. These Continue to Happen with Distressing Regularity. Who's at Fault? It's the Culture, Not the Control Systems. |
2010 | Control Global |
| Operator Performance as a Function of Alarm Rate and Interface Design WBF Make2Profit Conference, Austin, TX |
2010 | Center for Operator Performance |
| Build Operator Expertise Faster Following a few do's and don'ts can significantly speed learning. |
2009 | Chemical Processing |
| How Good is Your Operator's Mental Model? |
2009 | Emerson Process Experts |
| Succession Planning Avoid a Dumb Move: Stinting on capturing the expertise of departing employees is a false economy. |
2009 | Chemical Processing |
| Call a COP Need help staffing your operations? Consider the Center for Operator Performance. |
2008 | Automation World |
| In Pursuit of Improved Operator Performance From Fighter Planes to Nuclear Power |
2008 | Control Global |
| Operator Interfaces Expand Human Factors |
2008 | Automation World |
| Operator Performance Takes Center Stage Industry/university alliance aims to address human factors in process control. |
2008 | Chemical Processing |
| Center Aims to Boost Pipeline Controller Performance |
2007 | Pipeline & Gas Journal |
| Improving Human Effectiveness |
2007 | Automation World |
| Aiming for Operator Excellence |
2007 | Occupational Health & Safety |
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