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RECENT NEWS
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.

OUR METHOD
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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One day on-site plant audit now available. View info.
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Steady State Job Samples

Number of Samples by Job Type
Unit Board Operators Head/Chief Operators Unit Operators
Alkylation 29 14 36
Aromatics 22 8 12
Boiler 10 6 23
Chemical 30 2 27
Coker 34 10 32
Crude 56 26 60
FCC 52 19 46
General 0 6 46
Hydrocracker 16 7 9
Hydrogen 13 16 12
Hydrotreater 73 40 80
Isomerization 12 6 13
MTBE 12 7 2
Oil Movements 16 16 82
Reformer 77 28 58
Sulfur 30 24 37
Utilities 18 11 18
Water Treater 0 0 15
Waste Water Treater 7 7 26
TOTAL 507 253 634
Note: This list is not complete. We have many other samples for different units and job types.
staffing, workload, modernization, consolidation, display design, alarm management  OUR SERVICES
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ABOUT US
Beville is an Ohio-based human factors engineering firm that was formed in 1983.
OUR EXPERTISE
Workload
Staffing studies
Modernization  studies
Alarm management studies
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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