COGNITION RELATED PROCESS VISUALIZATION WITH MFM AND EID: IMPROVEMENT OR NOT?

摘要

Continual development of industrial processes implicates an increasing strain for the operators of such plants. Furthermore, there is an increasing level of automation due to increasingly powerful and cheaper automation hardware. The consequence is a decreasing number of operators for driving a process on concurrent rise of the information to be observed by the separate operator (Thierfelder, 1997; Herbst and Rieger, 1997). The increased automation level involves a loss of manual skills in leading a process, while the area of responsibility for the operators increases. (Reinig et al, 1997; Bainbridge, 1983). The objective of this project is to check if the newer modelling techniques of MFM and EID are better than the common view (TOP) of industrial processes.