Even in the early days of computing, businesses were looking at computers as tools for setting up complex simulations. Some credit Keith Douglas Tocher for developing the first discrete-event ...

Having proactively tracked operator performance since 2004, DuPont began to notice a clear trend developing a few years ago. Their operator performance was declining—an issue that coincided with an ...

Invensys Process Systems (IPS), a global technology firm, recently unveiled its Immersive Virtual Reality Process technology, a next-generation human machine interface (HMI) solution that will change ...

As the costs of virtual reality (VR) hardware and software have decreased in recent years, the technology’s use within various industries has grown. The heavy equipment industry, for instance, sees ...

Serious Labs, a leader in virtual reality (VR) solutions for training and operations of heavy equipment, announced that for the first time, an internationally accredited course in commercial heavy ...

Skill levels generally differ between plant operator shifts. Further, these differences often cause divides among the shifts that result in unequal divisions of responsibility. Comprehensive, ...

Technology developments in alarm monitoring are exciting and can improve the performance of your company. But the success of a central station still depends on the skill of the people staffing it.

Software-defined networking (SDN) is generating big interest as a technology that makes networks programmable and less expensive to build and operate. SDN is achieved by separating the control and the ...