News Related to the Center for Operator Performance

Members: Reserve your hotel room for the May Meeting by April 22nd to receive discounted rates

COP Semantic Procedure Analyzer (SPA) and Display Metrics Toolkit (DMT) tools in the March Control Magazine: Operator Performance Pumps Up (533KB PDF)

The March Members Teleconference was held on Thursday the 28th at 2pm EDT

March 27th Dave Strobhar offered the workshop, Put research insights to work in real world operations: Tips from Center for Operator Performance (Session 12 ID#14571), at the ABB Automation and Power World

The COP hosted Booth at ABB's Automation and Power World in Orlando, Florida March 25-28 to help others to learn more about the COP and human factors research

Reminder: We invite you to stop by the COP Booth at ABB's Automation and Power World in Orlando March 25 to 28 to learn more about the COP and human factors research

Members: New Date for the March Teleconference - Thursday the 28th at 2pm EDT

Members: The final version of the semantic procedure analyzer (SPA) tool is now available in the Members-Only Site

Save the Date: March 27 at 3PM at ABB's Automation and Power World Dave Strobhar offers the workshop: Put research insights to work in real world operations: Tips from Center for Operator Performance (Session 12 ID#14571)

2013 Summer Meeting information including presentation details and registration deadline

Details of the COP/LSU Display Metrics Project in the L'Observateur: Tech students see into the future

The February Members Teleconference was held on Thursday the 21st at 2pm EDT

Check out the January 28, 2013 Automation World article Changing Workforce Drives Control Room Modernization to learn how user-centered design and human factors are impacting control room design

Members: The 2012 Winter Meeting Video Summary has been added to COP Video Library

Members: The January Teleconference was held on Thursday the 17th at 2pm EDT

Update to the Recommended Reading List: Designing Interfaces

The December Members Teleconference was held on Thursday the 13th at 2pm EDT

Update to the Recommended Reading List: Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Third Edition

Members: COP Winter Meeting Minutes and Presentation Files are now available in the Members-Only Site

October 30th Dave Strobhar offered the workshop, Reducing Operator Error, at the Yokogawa North American Users Conference

The October Members Teleconference was held on Thursday the 18th at 2pm EDT

October 12th COP Board Representatives Dave Strobhar and Mark Nixon participated in the Meet The Expert session, Human Centered Design Principles for Optimal Operator Performance, as part of the Emerson Exchange conference in Anaheim, California.

Members: Reserve your hotel room for the November Meeting by October 15th to receive discounted rates

The COP hosted Booth #104 at Emerson Global Users Exchange in Anaheim, California October 8-11 to help others learn more about the COP and human factors research

October 10th and 11th Dave Strobhar lead the workshop, Ways to Improve Operator Performance, Session 3-1851, at the Emerson Global Users Exchange

September 25th Dave Strobhar lead the Improving Operator Performance session at ISA Automation Week. Three papers were part of the session: "Console Operator Staffing, Workload, and Automation"; "Operator Performance: How Does One Assess?"; and "Display Formatting Guidelines for Process Industries".

COP in the Wright State University Magazine: The Human Factor

The September Member Teleconference was held on Thursday the 20th at 2pm EDT

Members: Updated Status on Current Research Projects

Members: The 2012 Summer Meeting Video Summary has been added to COP Video Library

Updated Research Proposal Submission Guidelines (202KB PDF)

July 24th Dave Strobhar gave a lecture titled "Human Factors Issues in Oil and Chemical Processing" at the 8th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies

COP in the LSU College of Engineering News: LSU Students Study Petro-chemical Operators to Create Scientific Alarm Rates

2012 Winter Meeting information including presentation details and registration deadline

The August Member Teleconference was held on Thursday the 16th at 2pm EDT

Members: Dr. Chris Hale's project, Mapping Decisions to Displays, is moving forward: an update and more details available during the July Teleconference call

Members: Site visits and graphics examples are needed for the Data to Information Handbook. Send your contributions to the project via email

The 2012 Summer Meeting Summary recaps the results and project presentations of last month's meeting in Dayton (225KB PDF)

Members: The 2011 Winter Meeting Video Summary has been added to COP Video Library

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

The COP In Person Meetings Schedule is announced! The COP Winter Meeting will be held in Dallas November 6-8, 2012 and the COP Summer 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: COP Summer 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

Members: Reserve your hotel room for the May Meeting by April 16th to receive discounted rates

April 11th Dave Strobhar gave a COP presentation at the LAI/MEP Process Safety Meeting in Lake Charles, Louisiana

Update to the Recommended Reading List: Cost-Justifying Usability, Second Edition: An Update for the Internet Age, Second Edition

Congratulations COP Board Representative Mark Nixon for being in the Process Automation Hall of Fame Class of 2012

Yokogawa Electric Corporation is our Newest Member Company

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! Take a few minutes to share your thoughts in the 2012 Research Survey

How Many Alarms Can an Operator Handle? Two recent studies provide insights article by David A. Strobhar, Beville Engineering, and Craig M. Harvey, Louisiana State University in the December 2011 Chemical Processing

November 15-17 meeting was hosted by Emerson in Austin, TX.

Audio Interviews with David Strobhar on Intellirights.com.

October 2-5, 2011 - David Strobhar presented at the TAPPI Peers conference, Portland, OR. Presentation and paper available in Resources

October 27-28, 2011 - Presentations at Emerson Global Users Exchange, Nashville, TN.