Emerging expertise in process control

摘要

This paper presents a discussion of expertise in process control through a study of power production regulation in a French nuclear power plant. Cognitive research generally characterizes expert process control as the ability to foresee future process states, to select and time appropriate actions, to project their consequences. According to this view, expertise lies in the mental processes that prepare actin by envisioning the evolution of events and planning the future course of action to deal with the events.