Pharmaceutical & Specialty Chemicals

bControl systems within this industry must be continuously monitored.

Refining & Petrochemicals

bWe have the most extensive outside operator workload and Supervisor assessment available

Mining & Minerals

bUCDS has worked in the Copper Mining, Aluminum, and Coal Mining industries.

Power & Utilities Water Treatment

bWithin this business sector we are currently working on a...

Pulp & Paper

bThe Pulp & Paper industry is going through many challenges including how to remain competitive.

Pipeline Services

bAre you thinking it's time to invest in updating your control room(s)?

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file icon Operator Consoles: Growing Old Togetherpopular
Written by Ian Nimmo, published in Hydrocarbon Engineering - January 2005.  Article discusses refurbishment projects and best methodologies and standards for making the changes such as Study of Management Systems, i.e., people and performance systems; Ergonomic Design of Operating desks or Consoles; Human Computer Interface, Alarm Management, and Design of Control Rooms.
file icon Alarm Management & Graphics Projectspopular
A longer and more detailed version of the Alarm Overload paper - written by Ian Nimmo.  Paper discussing the benefits of Alarm Management and Graphics Projects i.e., focusing on life-cycle characteristics and transitioning to maintaining good alarm management practices, and best practices design methodology on how to approach graphics development.
file icon Abnormal Situation Management - The Need For Good Situation Awarenesspopular
A paper presented by Ian Nimmo, September of 2004 at the symposium “Advances in Process Control 7”.  The paper discusses strategies to help operators maintain a high level of situational awareness i.e., an accurate perception of the current condition of the process and equipment, and accurate understanding of the meaning of key performance indicators.
file icon Lessons Learned From A Disasterpopular
Written by Ian Nimmo and John Moscatelli.  Paper reflects on how learning from past experience has helped improve alarm managment systems.
file icon Organizational Accidents and Abnormal Situation Managementpopular
file icon How SAS's Finally Come Together as an HMI
A paper presented by Ian Nimmo, January of 2010 at the 65th Annual Instrumentation Symposium for the Process Industries. 
Control Rooms Blog Articles
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    Control Room Design – UCDS continues to help customers with their control rooms.  We have been working on a wide range of control rooms from...
  • Control Room Design & Building Design
    User Centered Control Building Detailed Design The Situation: You want to build a new control building. You have an idea of how many people and...
  • February 2010
    What a great January!  I must first thank Texas A&M University and the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering Department, who honored me by allowing...