Control Room Design
TRAINING
Join us to explore the principles of human-centered design for control rooms and learn how to create efficient, user-friendly, norm-compliant and safe operational environments.
| Price | Date | location |
|---|---|---|
| 950€ – excl. VAT | Tu. May 27, June 3, June 10, 2025 each time from 13:30 to 16:30 CET | Remote/online |
The Human-Centered Control Room Design training programme is dedicated to framing the design of control rooms to optimize efficiency, safety, and user experience while ensuring compliance with industry norms and standards. Control rooms are critical operational hubs, and to be truly effective, they must align with human capabilities, support decision-making, and integrate seamlessly into broader operational strategies.
By attending this training, you will gain a deeper understanding of human factors in control room design, acquire tools to enhance your design process and learn how to create work environments that prioritize usability, safety, and performance.
What to expect
Participants will gain a broad understanding of human-centered design principles for control rooms and learn how to apply a structured design methodology, from initial research to final testing. We will explore tools and techniques to optimize control room environments, balancing technological advancements with human factors considerations. Additionally, we will discuss both modern and traditional design methods that can be adapted to meet operational and ergonomic challenges.
This training takes a hands-on approach: you will get the chance to practice design techniques on a concrete control room case.
This training also emphasizes the importance of compliance with industry norms and safety standards. You’ll explore potential risks, ergonomic considerations, and best practices to ensure that your control room designs are both effective and human-centric.
This training consists of three sessions, each covering key aspects of control room design:
- Human factors in control room design: Understanding human factors and cognitive and physical ergonomics, workload, situational awareness, human errors, teamwork, including joint-cognitive systems, and resilience.
- Designing work organization in your control room: Structuring workflows, roles, and responsibilities to enhance efficiency and safety, and how to explore them
- Control room layout and environmental factors: Exploring spatial design, physical ergonomics, lighting, acoustics, and thermal ambience to create an optimal working environment.
Key takeaways
By the end of the training session, you will:
- Understand the key principles of human-centered design for control rooms
- Identify new tools and methodologies to improve control room design workflows
- Learn to design solutions that enhance operator performance, safety, and efficiency
- Develop skills to evaluate and test control room usability effectively
- Delve into best practices for compliance with industry norms and safety standards
You should consider the following topics out of scope:
- Technical details of control system engineering and automation software development
- Back-end infrastructure and hardware configuration of control rooms
Who should attend
No previous knowledge of control room design is necessary for this course. A basic understanding of human-centered design principles is beneficial. This training is ideal for:
- Engineers involved in control room planning and optimization
- Control Room Designers
- Human Factors Specialists involved in control room design
- Ergonomists
- Operations Managers
- Safety and Compliance Officers
Format
Remote, online training, split up in 3 afternoon sessions of 3 hours.
We accept at most sixteen participants to ensure a highly interactive session.
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