Proposal for a Generalized Operator's Console for the Steel Industry

摘要

The purpose of this proposal is to develop an operator's console which effectively utilizes human factors considerations, is capable of accomplishing process control tasks in any area of a steel plant, and has the potential to develop into an American Steel Industry Standard. Human factors considerations are essential to facilitate use of the operator's console and to enhance the probability of its being accepted by the steel industry. Obviously, for such an operator's console design to become such a standard, it must be capable of accomplishing most if not all of the process control tasks throughout the steel plant. Standardization is desirable to ease operator training requirements, to allow operator and supervisor mobility throughout the plant, and to reduce the total system cost through larger scale production by the computer systems manufacturer. (ERA citation 11:005598)