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Human Factors in Control Systems

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Human Reliability, Error, and Human Factors in Power Generation

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Control systems play a pivotal role in power generation, and over the years, control systems and the role of their control room human operators have changed quite dramatically. The activity of human operator has evolved from manually carrying out the process, to control system supervision.

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    B. S. Dhillon

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Dhillon, B.S. (2014). Human Factors in Control Systems. In: Human Reliability, Error, and Human Factors in Power Generation. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04019-6_8

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