COURSE OVERVIEW

 This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of Central Control Room Operations. It covers the central control rooms (CCR), key responsibilities of control room operators and basic operational control systems; the central control room equipment, safety and emergency protocols and workplace ergonomics and environment; the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and distributed control systems (DCS); and the control room automation and remote monitoring, alarm management systems, data logging and reporting tools and cybersecurity in central control rooms. 

 

Further, the course will also discuss the process control and optimization, monitoring and supervising multi-unit operations and maintenance and equipment monitoring; the shift and logbook management, incident management, root cause analysis and communication and coordination with other departments; the advanced alarm and event management, energy management and efficiency and emergency shutdown systems (ESD); and the control room decision-making and problem solving, advanced system diagnostics and troubleshooting and process safety management (PSM). 

 

 

During this interactive course, participants will learn to manage critical incidents, deal with plant shutdowns and emergencies and apply crisis management frameworks and post-crisis review and improvement; the emerging technologies in control room operations, artificial intelligence and machine learning in control rooms; the predictive analytics and data-driven decision-making; the future of human-machine collaboration in control rooms; the impact of human factors on control room operations and techniques to improve operator performance and efficiency; reducing operator error through training and awareness; and the continuous professional development for control room operators.