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Welcome to the Center for Operator Performance

WHO WE ARE
Refinery Photo at SunsetOperating safely requires redundancy of many components. Operating competitively requires lack of redundancy of the human component.

We are a diverse group of industry, vendor, and academia representatives addressing human capabilities and limitations with research, collaboration, and human factors engineering. Our mission to raise the performance level of our operators and improve Health, Safety, and Environmental effectiveness is accomplished through:

  • Openly sharing knowledge and ideas
  • Putting collaboration ahead of competition
  • Including vendors in research decisions
  • Teaming with leading human factors researchers and universities

CURRENT RESEARCH

PENDING RESEARCH

Current research projects include:
  • Quantify alarm actuation rates that operators can handle
  • Develop and evaluate effectiveness of decision-based operating graphics
  • Develop systematic approach to documenting “expertise” of senior operators before they walk out the door
  • Evaluate methods of early detection of off-normal operations
  • Data Mining of Near Miss Process Incidents
  • For more details, click here.

UPCOMING EVENTS/RECENT NEWS

  • COP Spring Meeting is May 15-17, 2012 at Wright State University. Visitors are welcome!
  • November 15-17 meeting was hosted by Emerson in Austin, TX.
  • Audio Interviews with David Strobhar on Intellirights.com. Visit the News page for details.
  • October 2-5, 2011 - David Strobhar presented at the TAPPI Peers conference, Portland, OR.
  • October 27-28, 2011 - Presentations at Emerson Global Users Exchange, Nashville, TN.
 
   

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