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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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The 2024 Spring Meeting of the Center for Operator Performance will take place on April 16-18, 2024, in Pine Bend, MN/Hybrid. For more information on this and future meetings, please contact Lisa Via. Guests are always welcome!

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