Control Room Design
At User Centric Design we can help ensure your Control Room is designed and laid out to suit the capabilities of Control Room staff. Our aim is to ensure that operators are able to maintain situational awareness and to work effectively as a team with clear communication pathways both within and without the Control Room confines.
Our consultants have helped create Control Room designs in a range of locations for a range of customers in nuclear facilities, air-traffic control, terminal control and tower control.
We provide a range of services including:
Human Factors analyses that demonstrate operator workload is within tolerable limits, and that teams are able to work effectively
Helping you to realise the benefits of increased automation without the potential pitfalls of deskilling the operators as the role migrates to monitoring rather than actively controlling
Anthropometric drawings that demonstrate lines of sight and that console design is suitable for the full range of users
Control Room and console mock-ups to test early concepts with users
Advice on lighting arrangements that minimise glare discomfort
User Interface design and prototyping
Advice on alarms systems to ensure the operators are able to understand, process and respond correctly, even during potentially high workload and stressful periods
Writing Alarm Philosophies using standards, such as EEMUA 191 and ANSI/ISA-18.2, for alarm management
