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Beville Engineering, in conjunction with Wright State University, is proud to announce the debut of the Center for Operator Performance.

The Center is an alliance of academic and process companies to research generic issues in human factors and process operator performance. Visit the website for more information.

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Our approach is one of tailoring our services to our clients' needs, rather than trying to adjust our clients to fit our methods.

We implement an on-site, "hands-on" approach to gauge the causes of problems, and then seek to solve the problems through the manipulation of various workload and human performance variables.

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Recommended Reading List

TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER YEAR
Readings in Training and Simulation: A 30-Year Perspective Edited by Robert W. Swezey and Dee H. Andrews Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2001
New Trends in Cooperative Activities: Understanding System Dynamics in Complex Environments Edited by Michael McNeese, Eduardo Salas, & Mica Endsley Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2001
Human Engineering Guide to Equipment Design (Revised Edition) Edited by Harold P. Van Cott, Ph.D., and Robert G. Kinkade, Ph.D. McGraw-Hill 1972
The Connoisseur's Guide to the Mind Roger C. Schank Summit Books 1991
Tasks, Errors, and Mental Models Edited by L.P. Goodstein, H.B. Andersen, & S.E. Olsen Taylor & Francis 1988
The Industrial Operator's Handbook - Petroleum & Chemical Industries Edition H.C. Howlett II Gulf Publishing Company 1996
Human Factors in Engineering and Design (Sixth Edition) Mark S. Sanders & Ernest J. McCormick McGraw-Hill 1987
Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics (Second Edition) Edited by Gavriel Salvendy Wiley-Interscience 1997
Naturalistic decision Making: Implications for Design Gary Klein, Ph.D. Klein Associates, Inc. 1993
OTHER RELATED READINGS
Linked - How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Penguin Group 2003
The Tipping Point - How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell Basic Books 2000
Knowledge and Decisions Thomas Sowell Viking Penguin 1980
Chaos - Making a New Science James Gleick Warner Brothers 1987

 

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Beville is an Ohio-based human factors engineering firm that was formed in 1983.
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Alarm and display system design, configuration and management.
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
Human factors engineering is the scientific discipline dedicated to improving the human-machine interface and human performance through the application of knowledge on human strengths, weaknesses, and characteristics.

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