Learn how and why to create an effective (overview, level 1) graphic for your operator to maintain situation awareness of his entire span of control.
With increasing spans of control, it is essential that console operators have one graphic with all of the information they need to assess the status of operation within 4 seconds. This guide incorporates human factors principles and decades of process control experience to clearly instruct how to create such a graphic. Even if a complete upgrade of plant graphics is out of the question, overlaying a single overview can significantly improve operator situation awareness and performance.
Download the Data to Information Handbook (Refining Edition) for a deeper dive into the design of operator graphics.