CCD, a control room consultancy, will be featuring at ICOCO 2010 – the International Control Room Design Conference in Paris on October 25 and 26.
ICOCO 2010 is organised by the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors and comes at a critical time for the industry as many control room operators, affected by the economic environment, look to achieve both life extension of their assets and leaner operations. As well as exhibiting their latest thinking, the consultancy will present five papers:
John Wood, CCD’s Executive Chairman will speak about Designing for Future Systems – the CERN LHC and ITER fusion reactor
Managing director David Watts will review the importance of systems integration in control room design – how this brings increased levels of safety, improved efficiency and potentially leads to cost savings
Mike Stearn, Operations Director and Principal Design Consultant David Brooker will present a case study which looks at the human factors challenges and solutions in the design of a new Electronic Signalling Control Room for the UK railways.
Senior Consultant Adam Parkes and David Watts will be future gazing with a look at the potential of touch technology to revolutionise control systems, and some of the challenges, both technical and regulatory which must be overcome to allow the industry benefit
Design Director John Wilson will take a look at how Hollywood has portrayed control rooms across the decades in films such as Dr No, 2001: A space odyssey, The Matrix and Avatar…and whether the industry has anything to learn from science fiction
Visitors will have the opportunity of meeting and speaking with four of CCD’s senior staff (John Wood – Executive Chairman, David Watts – Managing Director, Mike Stearn – Operations Director and John Wilson – Design Director) to discuss industry trends and specific issues.
About CCD
CCD Human Factor’s clients include the Medical Research Council, ITER, London Underground, Transport for London, BNFL, Home Office, DLR, Texaco, RailCorp, Highways Agency.
