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 ...

Control rooms provide operators and decision-makers access to myriad video and audio sources with the ability to move rapidly between sources. A typical control room has a large video wall and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...