Case studies illustrating the importance of Control room design

This post is a lead-in for us to consider the arrangement and use of display boards to organise and dynamically respond to the state of a 'system'.

I'm consciously avoiding the use of the word 'design' here in referring to these supporting systems for practices. Such systems are often presented as supervisory control(*1) or decision support systems in the traditional sense.

• Flixborough (Nypro UK) Explosion (1/6/1974)
• Havkong Incident (23/1/1993)
• Shell - Stanlow (20/3/1990)
• Texaco Refinery - Milford Haven - Explosion and Fires (24/7/1994)

Footnotes:

*1. The term supervisory control is also a technical term for control systems design in process industries. Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) is a communications protocol for monitoring and controlling remote sensors and devices used in industrial plants, anything from ships, drilling rigs, and energy plants to food processing and drug manufacturing.