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Grey Screens Save Lives: IEC 63303, ISA-101 and Control Room Design
Diego Ferrer, the EPC's lead instrument and control engineer, inherited a graphics specification that said only "graphics to be agreed with the client". Noor Haddad, the control room shift lead at the Al Sahil Gas Complex, has spent nine years looking at screens full of bright green pumps, red valves and three-dimensional tanks. Together they redesign the operator's window on the new gas trains: they start from a nuclear accident in Pennsylvania, work through the HMI lifecycle in IEC 63303 and ISA-101, test a grey screen against a colourful one in the simulator, and lay out a control room…
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