Operator Effectiveness
Effective, Intuitive and Insightful
Human Factors Engineering and Abnormal Situation Management are a critical part of ensuring operator effectiveness. Cogent offers a set of solutions to help operators improve their effectiveness, thereby helping businesses increase profits and reduce risks.
> Control Room Design
Effectively operating your plant starts with the control room design. Ensuring that operators can easily and intuitively navigate, command and control the processes is critical to the successful and safe operation of your plant. Cogent’s experience in human factors engineering deliver the control room designs that are optimal to your plant operator needs.
> Intuitive HMI and Alarms
Leveraging our in-depth experience with process equipment and our relationships with equipment suppliers, Cogent develops comprehensive alarm/events management strategies that properly prioritize and reduce nuisance alarming. Ensuring that only actionable alarms/events are delivered to operators ensures that abnormal situations are handled correctly, reducing the risk to the operations and increasing the effectiveness of operators.
> Operator Information Systems
HMIs provide a very useful function for operator command and control, however, when upsets occur, operators need information to guide them through these events. With Cogent’s Operator Information Systems, plant operators can have a fully integrated information system that captures lessons learned and delivers guidance to remedy abnormal situations.
> Training and Performance Monitoring
Operator confidence and performance is directly correlated to training. Ensuring operators perform procedures correctly is a measurement of success. Cogent has the solutions and expertise to deliver training systems that monitor competency to ensure the safe, sustainable and profitable operation of your plant.
