The control room market has managed to repel any significant damage from the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, control room technology may now be in more demand than ever before. When you purchase through ...

HOUSTON – The storied room that first saw humans land on the moon has fallen into a shocking state of disrepair. Once a gleaming state-of-the-art facility, Apollo Mission Control at Johnson Space ...

The control room is the nerve center of any plant operation: the place where operational personnel makes sure the facility and everything in it runs smoothly, effectively and efficiently. The iconic ...

Control rooms are the nerve center of any power plant. Two recent control room upgrades at U.S. facilities highlight the logistical challenges and solutions to issues that come with improving an ...

Plant operators communicate vital information verbally among themselves in the field via radio communication, and within the control room. The spoken word is the predominant form of communication.

As the power industry makes the shift from analog to digital control systems, power utilities are redesigning their control rooms to accommodate the digital control upgrades. The new technology has ...

WRC’s control room has eight monitors with multiviewer displays. The display in the bottom row, second from right, is designated the emergency display in the event of a main multiviewer failure.

Today’s control room is not what it was a decade ago. It has changed so gradually, you might not have noticed, but over time it has transformed into a data center that can measure a facility’s total ...

Our recent trip to NASA’s Mission Control Center to find out how NASA steers the ISS around space junk yielded more than an awesome interview—it also gave me the opportunity to snap some excellent ...