In this presentation given at the 2008 ExperTune - TiPS User Conference, Ian Nimmo, from User Centered Design Services (www.mycontrolroom.com) shares important paradigm shifts in the evolution of control rooms, and makes the case for a change in the way we measure safety in the context of process operation in contrast to measuring "Lost Time Incidents".

50 Years of People Automation and Control Rooms
Ian Nimmo, User Centered Design Services
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Ian was a founding member of the ASM® Consortium, representing Honeywell as a Senior Engineer Fellow. He has unprecedented insight into how the characteristics of a control room impact the human operators responsible for running a facility.

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