Pharmaceutical & Specialty Chemicals

bControl systems within this industry must be continuously monitored.

Refining & Petrochemicals

bWe have the most extensive outside operator workload and Supervisor assessment available

Mining & Minerals

bUCDS has worked in the Copper Mining, Aluminum, and Coal Mining industries.

Power & Utilities Water Treatment

bWithin this business sector we are currently working on a...

Pulp & Paper

bThe Pulp & Paper industry is going through many challenges including how to remain competitive.

Pipeline Services

bAre you thinking it's time to invest in updating your control room(s)?

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file icon Abnormal Situation Management - The Need For Good Situation Awarenesspopular
A paper presented by Ian Nimmo, September of 2004 at the symposium “Advances in Process Control 7”.  The paper discusses strategies to help operators maintain a high level of situational awareness i.e., an accurate perception of the current condition of the process and equipment, and accurate understanding of the meaning of key performance indicators.
file icon Designing a Control Buildingpopular
Written by Ian Nimmo, published by Hydrocarbon Engineering - Nov 2002.  Article discusses major aspects to designing a new control building i.e., building location, standards, selecting an architecture firm, building company, console layout and ergonomic considerations, people changes and management of change.
file icon Designing Control Rooms for Humanspopular
Written by Ian Nimmo and John Moscatelli, published in Control Magazine - July 2004.  Article discusses today’s work environment and how it has been revolutionized by PC’s and PC workstations.
file icon Operator Consoles: Growing Old Togetherpopular
Written by Ian Nimmo, published in Hydrocarbon Engineering - January 2005.  Article discusses refurbishment projects and best methodologies and standards for making the changes such as Study of Management Systems, i.e., people and performance systems; Ergonomic Design of Operating desks or Consoles; Human Computer Interface, Alarm Management, and Design of Control Rooms.
file icon Putting on a Human Face on the Design of Control Rooms popular
Written by Ian Nimmo, published by Process Control Magazine - May 2004.  Article discusses how technology has pushed Industrial processes to the limit, and why Companies should implement standards and best practices around factors such as human related incidents and Control Room Design.
file icon Russianpopular
file icon The Safety Issues of Batch (& Other) Controls popular
Written by Ian Nimmo, presented as Keynote presentation May of 2005 at the World Batch Forum. This paper discusses a new approach to safety, breaking the traditional barriers of people, organizations and culture and puts the control engineer back in the driving seat for determining performance improvements, optimizing control algorithms, people, and the way they interface with technology.
Control Rooms Blog Articles
  • Ucds Podcast 1
    Mycontrolroom.com’s first podcast. This is our overview video. Check it out and let us know what you think. The podcast can be view here on... (video/x-m4v 4.48MB )
  • Control Room Design
    Control Room Design – UCDS continues to help customers with their control rooms.  We have been working on a wide range of control rooms from...
  • Control Room Design & Building Design
    User Centered Control Building Detailed Design The Situation: You want to build a new control building. You have an idea of how many people and...
  • February 2010
    What a great January!  I must first thank Texas A&M University and the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering Department, who honored me by allowing...