Next Generation Control Room Technologies

Plant Engineering
Matko Papic CTO - Evans Consoles Corp. 


Control rooms are becoming more appealing and useful for the next generation of mission critical plant and system operators. Technology is changing control room designs.

Those helping with control room design should be involved from an early planning stage including technology assessment and operational planning, through to detail design, development and implementation.

Control room design and integration can consider distributed control systems (DCSs), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), information technology (IT) management systems, human factors and ergonomics, strategic planning, global program development, first principles design, development of control room operational models and implementation. (Full Article)