News
November 25th: How smart are intelligent machines?
A discussion session about Human Factors of production systems and services with intelligent machines and agents. This is the title of a (Dutch) session introduced and lead by Erik Mulder (Ergos) on the national conference of the Dutch society HumanFactors.NL.
Size and content of displays: smartwatch or 4K.
Erik Mulder (ErgoS) talks about this subject on the meeting for European registered ergonomists (Eur.Erg.’s) on November 8, 2016. They will discuss the vision, choices and dilemmas related to the use of the wide variety of screen sizes.
Human Factors leading for design Coral EnergICE
Anthony Veder is currently in the design process of the newbuild Coral EnergICE, which is due to be delivered in the third quarter of 2017. This vessel, an 18,000 cbm Liquified Gas Carrier, will have the 1 A Super Class Ice Class Notation as well as the Cold Notation, which means it will be able to sail under ice cold circumstances. The design is based on the Coral Energy, which was delivered in 2013. There is one big difference however… ergonomics are taken into account. Niels de Groot, ergonomist at ErgoS Human Factors Engineering explains.
Sailing with the fishing boats of Huizer Botters
On September the 30th we enjoyed the beautiful weather, while exploring Gooimeer on two fishing boats of ‘Stichting Huizer Botters’.
Van Oord - Two new trailing suction hopper dredgers
Van Oord is building two new trailing suction hopper dredgers in Spain. With a volume of 17.000m3 and a length of 158m these ships will strengthen the mid-class section of the dredger fleet.
Sonneborn - change management project
Change management project for control room centralisation at Sonneborn, including control room redesign, graphics design and a structural user participation process.
Izmir (Turkey) - HF Validation and Verification
HF Validation and verification of a Refinery Control Room Design for Günkon, Izmir – Turkey.
