An Operator Training System from Siemens is worth considering in the following cases:
- Chemical or pharmaceutical process
- Process with many feedbacks and interconnections
- Process is complex
- New plant or control technology
- Frequent startup/shutdown of plant
- Many changes in product and/or load
- Personnel qualifications should be improved
- Faults and downtimes due to maloperations
- Frequent change in personnel
- Variations in production depending on shift workers
- Ratio of rejects too high
- Product quality or energy consumption can be improved through optimized operator prompting
- Testing of different operating strategies or control concepts
- Testing and checking of operating instructions