Seminar Announcement Improving Human Performance in Operations 2010 HCS Seminar Series Understand Industry Effective Operations Practices Discover Techniques to Improve Situation Awareness Learn Principles of HMI Design Attend one or more of the two seminar sessions on operations practices, team situation awareness training, and operator HMI design. Seminars to be held on: Sept.16-17, Ft McMurray AB Nov.11-12th, New Orleans LA Download .pdf for more information. To Register, contact Ric Barreth: rbarreth@applyHCS.com.
Our vision is to dramatically transform the nature of plant operations, improve the effectiveness of the business, and enhance the quality of life of the people who staff it. Our mission is to apply human factors principles and human-centered design methodologies to optimize the influence of culture, organizational structures, management systems and use of technology on operator and plant performance. In addition, we strive to pioneer advances in effective application design and operations practices and transition these innovations into the plant operations environment. Our values include improving the safety of the industrial work environment, establishing a collaborative work atmosphere with our customers and colleagues, maintaining high integrity in all relationships, and striving for a balanced, high quality of life.
HMI Development Products The HCS Advanced Operator Interface™ solution features a suite of user interface elements and techniques that embody effective human factors principles that have been demonstrated to improve console operator performance. Key features of the advanced design approach include: Multi-level, simultaneous views of increasing plant detail Linked navigation Controlled window management Integrated trending Integrated alarm information into graphics and navigation Context sensitive access to additional information Download .pdf for more information.			Workshop Announcement Building Situation Awareness An Operator Training Workshop Understanding Situation Awareness Situation Awareness Failure Modes Situation Awareness Practices Troubleshooting Techniques Upset Response Protocol Team Practice Exercises 100% of the operators who have participated in a HCS Building Situation Awareness workshop recommend that all operators receive this training. Download .pdf for more information. Contact Charles Bloom to learn how you could arrange for operator training at your site: cbloom@applyHCS.com.
	The HCS Alarm Sounds for Multi-Console Control Rooms™ feature a suite of console-specific alarm sounds that simultaneously differentiate between console locations as well as alarm priority. The HCS Alarm Sounds for Multi-Console Control Rooms™ have been designed using effective human factors principles with respect to human audition and hearing. In addition, the HCS Alarm Sounds for Multi-Console Control Rooms™ have been operator-evaluated for both the initial design parameters as well as the in-use effectiveness. Download .pdf for more information.