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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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Overview of Workload and Staffing Analysis

Market, competitive, and regulatory pressures demand that the utilization of refinery and plant personnel be efficient and productive. These pressures are often competing, requiring that more be accomplished with less people. Having too many people is inefficient, not having enough is dangerous. In many cases, the problem is not the number of operators, but how they are being utilized. Unfortunately, evaluation of operating positions by plant personnel is too often influenced by who has worked a job in the past and over-emphasizing infrequent (yet memorable) events.

Beville provides an independent and objective method to assess refinery and process operator workload and unit staffing needs. Beville examines both steady state workload requirements and upset/off-normal workload requirements. An imbalance between the two is addressed through potential expansion of operator functions and/or automation of upset tasks.

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Board Staff for Design for
Field Design for Staff for

If upset staffing requirements are greater than steady state staffing for a unit, two sets of options are developed. One option entails increasing the steady state workload to improve personnel utilization. The other option involves automating upset tasks to reduce the workload needed to handle an upset.
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Beville is an Ohio-based human factors engineering firm that was formed in 1983.
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Staffing studies
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Alarm and display system design, configuration and management.
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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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