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

April 25th at ABB’s Automation and Power World Dave Strobhar offered the workshop: Collaborative research to improve the performance of process control operators

The April Member Teleconference was held on Thursday the 19th at 2pm EDT