Control rooms are vital for organizations to efficiently and effectively monitor multiple information streams and make accurate mission-critical decisions. With an ever-increasing number of content ...

IDAHO FALLS — Modernizing nuclear power plants to help extend their operating lifetimes is no small task. But the endeavor offers an opportunity to improve control-room design and layout. The ...

A new virtual control room at the Idaho National Laboratory will help utilities convert old nuclear power plant control rooms running on analogue systems to digital ones. A new virtual control room at ...

The control room is the nerve center of any plant operation: the place where operational personnel makes sure the facility and everything in it runs smoothly, effectively and efficiently. The iconic ...

On-line monitoring techniques have been under development over the past decades for a variety of applications in process and power industries. In the nuclear power industry, on-line monitoring ...

Faced with the necessity of doing more with less—and less-experienced—staff, the power business increasingly is turning to simulators for reliable and efficient real-world training. Training ...

Nova Chemicals Corp. used a holistic, best-practices approach to help sustain and improve the performance of control system assets at its Joffre, Alta., ethylene plant. This article, the second of two ...