The July Member Teleconference was held on Thursday the 19th at 2pm EDT
The COP In Person Meetings Schedule is announced! The 2012 November Meeting will be held in Dallas November 6-8, 2012 and the 2013 May Meeting will be May 14-16, 2013 at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio
The June Member Teleconference was held on Thursday the 21st at 2pm EDT
Members: 2012 May Meeting Minutes and Presentation Files are now available in the Members-Only Site
Check out the May 2012 Control Design article The Keys to Operator Performance: Operator Error Rates Double on the Ninth Day of Work After Eight Days of Consistent Performance for a recap of several interesting findings from ongoing projects
How to Build a Better Operator article by Aaron Hand of Control Design provides a summary of the Center for Operator Performance presentations at ABB Automation & Power World 2012
Update to the Recommended Reading List: Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
May 22nd Dave Strobhar offered the workshop Modularizing Emergency Procedures for Increased Ease of Use and Updating at ATPM 2012
The COP attended the ATPM 2012 Conference which was held at the Lone Star Community Building and Conference Center, The Woodlands, Texas, May 21-23. This new conference focused on applying automation and control technology in process manufacturing.
The COP hosted Booth #31 at ABB’s Automation and Power World in Houston April 23 - 26 to help others learn more about the COP and human factors research