ISA Montreal: Situational Awareness

The Presenter : Meryam Youssef, Eng./Ing.

11 years automation project experience, supporting a variety of engineering activities on numerous projects (O&G, Pulp & Paper, Nuclear, Power).

Specialized in automated Foxboro engineering processes and user interfaces.

Specialization: Instrumentation, Controls and automation

Specialization: Situational Awareness Subject Matter Expert (SA SME)

The presentation:

This presentation has the purpose of explaining the WHAT and WHY questions of Situational Awareness.

What is it?

Why are my customers asking about it?

Why are we moving in this direction?

How bringing them together creates significant benefit to our customers.

Agenda:

1.   Introduction

Situational Awareness HMI Definition

Industry Standards and Guidelines

Business Impact: Why Do We Care

Case study

Process Graphics Evolution

2.   Science: Explaining Traditional HMI problems vs. Situational Awareness HMI solutions

Improving colour and contrast use (alarm colours and cool greys)

Advantages of analogue indicators

Visual Patterns

Display hierarchy (Level1, 2, 3, 4)

3.   Design Process for SA HMI

4.   Conclusion