If a control room is to act as the central hub of an organization, logic dictates that it should be able to process the necessary information to keep that entity up and running as efficiently as ...

As the power industry makes the shift from analog to digital control systems, power utilities are redesigning their control rooms to accommodate the digital control upgrades. The new technology has ...

Pictured: The Security Control Centre at the French terminal in Coquelles includes a 20sqm Leyard TWA Series LED, ultra-fine pixel pitch of 1.8mm video wall. Ask Jeff Von Horn, sales and engineering ...

This white paper by Winsted Corporation covers the basics of human factors and ergonomic console design in today's mission critical control room operations. Automation World covers the entire spectrum ...

I promised last month I’d talk a little more about the design of control rooms, as part of our inquiry into the care and feeding of loudspeakers. This is a complex, expensive and difficult topic. It ...

Fox Architects, the design firm behind Emerson Process Management’s $5 million Integrated Operations Center in Round Rock, Texas, explains some of the design elements that went into building a ...

As the nerve center of an organization, a security operations center (SOC) or control room receives mountains of information and data from a wide variety of systems, including video, audio, access ...

This panel will discuss factors such as ergonomics, video wall technologies, human factors & human performance, visualizations, virtual reality and other technologies that come into play to build the ...

It’s said that the only certainty is change, and that is no different for control rooms. With advancements in technology, requirements for higher quality visuals, and the need to monitor an ...

IDAHO FALLS — Modernizing nuclear power plants to help extend their operating lifetimes is no small task. But the endeavor offers an opportunity to improve control-room design and layout. The ...

Imagine monitoring a robot working more than 200,000 miles away on the lunar surface — a stressful job, and one that requires operators to be on the ball at all times while in a small control room for ...

The control room is being designed to optimize operator performance during long shifts monitoring a rover on the moon. Researchers are studying factors like room layout, lighting, and break areas to ...