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Control Room Security

Hello to all our on-line friends, customers and potential customers.  UCDS welcomes you to our new website, we have been working diligently to remove the bugs and correct broken links, if you do find any please let us know.  Like you, we strive for excellence and we support continuous improvement process in all we do.…

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The Need for Good Situation Awareness

This is an excerpt the the document: Abnormal Situation Awareness The Need for Good Situation Awareness Ian Nimmo, President The goal in designing a control room is to create a work environment that promotes high levels of vigilance and situation awareness. Operators are vigilant when they are alert and prepared to act. They have a…

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Complete Control Room Solution

Happy New Year to all our friends and clients! We wish you a prosperous New Year and we pray for each of you to enjoy good health. I am starting the year recovering from Achilles heel surgery, which I can tell you is very painful and not recommended. I will be doing PT in the…

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Implementing a High-Performance HMI Philosophy and Culture

Little thought has been given to human factors in the control room layout, the operator stations and even less to the user interface design. Operators may be oriented to “normal,” steady-state plant operations, but are ill-prepared to deal with abnormal situations when they arise. This includes scheduled shutdowns and start-ups that today happen at increasingly…

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Implementing a High-Performance HMI Philosophy and Culture

Little thought has been given to human factors in the control room layout, the operator stations and even less to the user interface design. Operators may be oriented to “normal,” steady-state plant operations, but are ill-prepared to deal with abnormal situations when they arise. This includes scheduled shutdowns and start-ups that today happen at increasingly…

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High Performance HMI

This month’s focus has been High Performance HMI for me, a lot of new interest.  I joined other experts at the Emerson Exchange to discuss an alternative design without dependence on P&ID’s and PFD’s.  So, what is the alternative?  If anyone would like a copy of my slides let me or Steve Maddox smaddox@mycontrolroom.com know…

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What is the High-Performance HMI?

August is here and it is a very busy month for UCDS.  Dave and I will be gone for the whole month.  We start with the first couple of weeks doing a control room gap analysis and conceptual design for a mining customer.  We as always start the process with our Situation Awareness Workshop.  This…

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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 different industries, different sizes, and minor changes in style.  We have been working with one customer who allowed their architect and Engineering contractor to build the control room.  We are…

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New Workshop on PHMSA Rule

We want to wish our friend’s and customers a very Merry Christmas and thank you all for putting your trust in us.  It was a very different year with a lot of firsts for us.  We also transitioned leadership from CCE back to me, which was a huge step for me. We wish CCE best…

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Methodology & Tools

UCDS has had an interesting month, which included our tradition of spending Thanksgiving in Sedona, for good food, relaxation and visiting nature.  A few hikes in the Sedona country side which is very beautiful and good for the soul. We had a few firsts in November.  We introduced our High Performance HMI ladder assessment gap…

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Methodology & Tools

UCDS has had an interesting month, which included our tradition of spending Thanksgiving in Sedona, for good food, relaxation and visiting nature.  A few hikes in the Sedona country side which is very beautiful and good for the soul. We had a few firsts in November.  We introduced our High Performance HMI ladder assessment gap…

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APIRP

I just got back from a very busy trip to Texas and Louisiana, both were very hot!  It is good to get back to Arizona for some nice dry heat.  🙂 I meet up with a young, old friend in Shreveport, LA and had a good time as we checked out a new job.  We…

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PHMSA/CRM

UCDS announced a joint partnership with EnerSys and Doug Rothenberg to provide a complete solution to cover all areas of the PHMSA/CRM.  The partnership provides a one stop shop for a complete Pipeline Solution for control system, alarm management, High Performance HMI and SCADA Controls and Ergonomically Designed Control Meeting ISO 11064 Standards and the…

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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 me to give the keynote address at the 65th Instrument Symposium.  They then gave me a special luncheon with guests, this was very humbling and I was very grateful.  They…

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