Human Factors in Control Room Design: A Practical Guide for Project Managers and Senior Engineers

Human Factors in Military and Industrial Control Room Design Tex Crampin, Liveware Human Factors Ltd, UK A succinct guide to a Human Factors programme of work This book provides a reference for project managers to assist in identifying the key rudiments of good Human Factors design.  It is intended to be used in conjunction with an appointed Human Factors manager as part of a detailed design programme, read by all engineers and designers in order to establish a wide understanding across the whole team of the importance of Human Factors.  Human Factors in Military and Industrial Control Room Design offers succinct advice, tailored for rapid injection into complex Human Factors programmes, together with applicability to any control room design, military or industrial.  Applications include warship control rooms, command centres, fire and accident response centres, chemical plants, nuclear installations, oil rigs, refineries and other similar industries.  Key features: A template for a thorough Human Factors programme of work. Applicability to any control room design.  Aims to address operator workload and optimise system performance, comfort and safety. Can save significant costs by optimised system integration and enhanced system operation.       It is advised that project managers use Human Factors in Military and Industrial Control Room Design as a template to develop a control room "Operating Philosophy" and "Human Computer Interface (HCI) Style Guide" for their own purposes within the constraints of their specific industry.

Tex Crampin is the Director of Liveware Human Factors Ltd, having founded the company in 1986.  Liveware supports the MOD and Royal Navy in all aspects of human factors design, notably in Control Room Design, and advises selected major companies in Human Factors Design such as Thales, QinetiQ, Converteam and British Aerospace.  Tex has recently been working on the HF aspects of the design of key operational compartments for future RN warships including TYPE 45 and QEC Class of Aircraft Carriers.

Tex previously worked at GEC on the Nimrod and Merlin sonar systems and then moved to Singer Link–Miles where he set up the Human Factors Group responsible for military applications of the IMAGE visual system for flight simulation and training needs analysis; flying the Harrier and other military aircraft in order to establish precise military user needs for low–level ground attack; air–to–air re–fuelling; carrier deck landing; and helicopter NOE operations. 

Tex has presented on Human Factors at conferences world–wide in India, USA, Canada, UK and Holland and lectures to MOD staff on HF Control Room Design twice yearly at HMS Collingwood.