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Manual procedures in the process industries will surely persist into the future due to economic factors and/or cultural norms. To optimize operational performance, operating companies must strike a balance between the two different styles of procedural execution. Computer-augmented manual procedures represent such a compromise by combining SOPs with automated process control strategies. NovaTech AMP accomplishes this in a platform-independent, mobile-enabled manner. AMP paperless procedures improve plant performance and safety by increasing the integration between field manual and automated procedures, enabling more consistent, reliable execution of procedures. Recommendations: • Users should perform failure modes analyses on the most critical tasks to determine where integrated man-machine-methods solutions could be best applied. • Users interested in improving operational performance should consider investigating augmented procedural management solutions to find cost effective alternatives for implementing higher levels of automation. • Users should consider open solutions, such as NovaTech AMP, to improve levels of procedural automation and reduce the frequency of abnormal events and/or mitigate their impact. |
