Publications

These articles have been written by ASM members to share our findings, recommendations, and ideas for further research with industry and academia.

Managing Human Reliability: An Abnormal Situation Management Historical Perspective
October 31, 2015
Arousal and performance in a process monitoring task using signal detection theory
October 31, 2015
Using eye tracking for live measures of workload in a refinery control room process monitoring task
October 31, 2015
Effective HMI Design for Safety-Instrumented Systems: Key Challenges and Requirements for Console Operator Situation Awareness
September 30, 2015
An Evaluation Framework for Handheld Devices within the Refinery Industry
July 31, 2015
Operator Situation Awareness and Delivering ASMcompliant High Performance HMIs: Failure Modes and Success Factors
March 31, 2015
Addressing the Process Safety Challenges associated ith Heater Operations in the Process Industry
November 20, 2014
Improve safety and performance: Abnormal Situation Management Consortium celebrates 20 years
October 01, 2014
Properly Handle Abnormal Situations_ChemProcessing2013
January 24, 2013
ASM Feb QRM Press Release
April 02, 2012
Human Reliability in future operations
December 31, 2011
Common Operations Failure Modes in the Process Industries.
November 30, 2011
ASM Compliant HMI Graphics Design for Honeywell Experion at Sasol Synfuels
October 31, 2011
Alarm Management: Wasn’t that problem solved years ago?
October 31, 2011
Towards Improving Operator Alarm Flood Responses: Alternative Alarm Presentation Techniques.
October 31, 2011
Alarm Management
October 28, 2011
Process Safety through Operational Management
September 30, 2011
Advances in Abnormal Situation Management
September 30, 2011
Effective Shift Handover
July 31, 2011
Structured Approach to Shift Handover Improves Situation Awareness at Engen Oil
June 30, 2011
From Incident Reporting to Rule Based Management
May 31, 2011
Operator reliability : taking automation to the next level
May 31, 2011
Improving process safety culture: An audit checklist for effective first-line supervision based on common operations failure modes.
March 31, 2011
Why Gray Backgrounds for DCS Operating Displays? The Human Factors Rationale for an ASM Consortium Recommended Practice
February 28, 2011
Abnormal Situation Management and Human Side of Safety
November 30, 2010
Human Reliability in process operations
October 28, 2010
Common Procedural Execution Failure Modes during Abnormal Situations
October 26, 2010
Alarm Management Press Release Sep 09
September 15, 2009
ASM Metrics Working Group
October 14, 2008
Human Performance Models for Response to Alarm Notifications: An Industrial Case Study
September 28, 2008
Smart Plant Operations: Vision, Progress & Challenges
September 12, 2007
Optimized Procedural Operations
October 23, 2006
Establishing Human Performance Improvements and Economic Benefit for a Human-centered Operator Interface: An Industrial Evaluation
June 10, 2005
Supporting Key Console Operator Interactions through the Control System Interface
April 19, 2005
Rescue Your Plant from Alarm Overload
March 23, 2005
Operator Console: Growing Old Together
March 03, 2005
Achieving Effective Alarm System Performance: Benchmarking
February 28, 2005
Managing the Process, Not the Alarms at ConocoPhillips
November 08, 2004
Cost-Justifying Investments in Advanced Human-Machine Interface Technologies
September 28, 2004
Technology Enables New Alarm Management Approaches
October 23, 2001
Techniqes for Interacting with Large Information Spaces on Small Screens
October 21, 2001
Cost-effective Human Factors Techniques for Process Safety
October 02, 2001
Mandated Human Error Controls in the USA and the Impact on Control Room Design and Operations
September 19, 2001
Mandated Human Error Controls in the USA and the Impact on Control Room Design and Operations
September 19, 2001
Designing an Ethylene Plant Control Room and Operator User Interface Using Best Practices
May 30, 2001
Designing an Ethylene Plant Control Room and Operator User Interface Using Best Practices
May 30, 2001
Designing for Abnormal Situation Management
May 02, 2001
Fielding a Multiple State Estimator Platform
November 15, 2000
Abnormal Situation Management in Asia Pacific
October 06, 2000
Alarm Management and Rationalization
October 06, 2000
Clustering in Wavelet Domain: A Multiresolution ART Network for Anomaly Detection
October 06, 2000
Ergonomic Design of Control Buildings
August 18, 2000
Ergonomic Design of Control Buildings
August 18, 2000
Visualizing Model-Based Predictive Controllers
August 09, 2000
The Importance of Alarm Management Improvement Project
January 14, 2000
Effective Control Center Design for a Better Operating Environment
November 03, 1999
Collaborative Decision Support for Operations Personnel
November 03, 1999
THE ALARM SYSTEM FROM THE OPERATOR`S PERSPECTIVE
August 03, 1999
CENTRAL CONTROL ROOMS AND PETROCHEMICAL PLANTS: COSTS AND BENEFITS
August 03, 1999
The ASM Story
December 01, 1998
MODELING TECHNIQUES TO SUPPORT ABNORMAL SITUATION MANAGEMENT IN THE PETROCHEMICAL PROCESSING INDUSTRY
October 06, 1998
[Human] Supervisory Control and Decision Support: State of the Art
August 04, 1998
SUPPORTING COLLABORATIVE FIELD OPERATIONS WITH PERSONAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS
January 19, 1998
Future of Supervisory Systems in Process Industries
October 27, 1997
Managine Abnormal Situations in Process Industries; Automation, People and Cultures
October 27, 1997
Managing Abnormal Situations II: Collaborative Decision Support for Operations Personnel
October 27, 1997
A New Training Strategy: Design the Work Environment for Continuous Learning
October 24, 1997
Synopsis - IEE Colloquium; 'Stemming the Alarm Flood'
June 20, 1997
USER-INITIATED NOTIFICATION: A CONCEPT FOR AIDING THE MONITORING ACTIVITIES OF PROCESS CONTROL OPERATORS
April 12, 1996
ABNORMAL SITUATION MANAGEMENT IN PETROCHEMICAL PLANTS: CAN A PILOT’S ASSOCIATE CRACK CRUDE?
February 19, 1996
A Training Perspective on Abnormal Situation Management: Establishing an Enhanced Learning Environment
February 12, 1996
BEST PRACTICES FOR INFORMATION PRESENTATION TO OPERATORS
January 31, 1996
ABNORMAL SITUATION MANAGEMENT: NOT BY NEW TECHNOLOGY ALONE...
January 24, 1996
OPERATOR ADVISOR SYSTEM FOR PROCEDURE MANAGEMENT
December 31, 1995