正在发生。在过去的几年中，婴儿潮一代及其广泛的行业知识已经离开了劳动力。炼油厂，纸浆和造纸厂以及市政水区已转向基于决策的培训和文档工作流程，以解决真正的知识飞行问题。来自Emerson Process Management(www.emersonprocess.com)Austin, Tex., is an alarm wiki for the control operator. Wikis are well known by web developers and for the process industry the product offers the ability to document specific alarm issues—after they’re resolved—via the operator’s console in the control room.
“You have an experienced operator and provide them with the right security permission. At the screen, the operator enters the alarm resolution information and, literally, pushes a button and distributes it to all operator stations throughout the plant,” says Cindy Scott, Delta V product manager, Emerson Process Management. “Our hope is that this could be part of the operator software being used all the time, and this would be a much more natural way to pull that information from experts.”
在石油和天然气，采矿，金属和海上行业中出现的另一种劳动力趋势是合作中心。流程公司开始将控制专业知识合并为单个位置，然后利用多个运营资产的利用。
Christophe Romatier, senior strategic marketing manager withHoneywell Process Solutions(www.honeywellprocess.com),得克萨斯州休斯顿说：“我认为其中很多是由于劳动力池越来越紧密的事实，而这些类型的采掘业的运营公司正面临着较难的时间，并保持了人才。”Romatier补充说，远程协作概念一直存在于过去的10年中，但主要用于石油和天然气行业中的超级专业 - BP和雪佛龙补充说。
“The biggest challenge that operating companies face is when they want to integrate multiple facilities, usually of multiple vintages or generations. They have to do a lot of data integration,” says Romatier. “It most often is cost prohibitive for them to consider ripping and replacing all of the data systems in all the sites to just standardize on one.”
霍尼韦尔的直觉执行软件可以通过Microsoft Corp.（www.microsoft.com）SharePoint 2010 SQL Server and StreamInsight collaboration technologies. Powered by Matrikon, the Intuitive Executive software is vendor neutral and will connect to any control system or underlying data source, according to Honeywell.
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