Supervision insights: The blog

Image retention: causes, risks and prevention on video walls and LCD displays

5 October 2026

In a control room, a screen often shows the same information for months on end. The same mimic diagram, the same alarm bar, the same timestamp banner, always in the…

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Airport Operations Center (APOC): designing a high-performing airport operations centre

10 September 2026

A flight delayed by fifteen minutes doesn’t cost fifteen minutes. It pushes back a rotation. It ties up a gate for longer. It throws the ramp team off schedule and…

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SOC tools: what actually matters

24 August 2026

In most post-mortems, the alert was there. It had fired, it had a timestamp, it was sitting in a queue. Nobody read it. That is the real issue with SOC…

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Crisis Management Team: How to organize, equip, and activate it effectively

27 July 2026

Ask a CEO whether their company has a crisis management team, and you’ll almost always get the same answer: yes. There’s a document somewhere, a list of names, maybe a…

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Control console: Designing an operations setup that actually works

13 July 2026

An operator wincing after three hours on shift, a poorly placed screen that forces a twisted neck, a cable that’s been trailing under the desk for six months because nobody…

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Hypervision: Technical definition and role in control rooms

9 July 2026

A control room running five or six different monitoring tools always ends up with the same symptom: alert storms. A UPS switches to battery, a network link saturates, three PLCs…

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Guinea: what supervision means for a country in the middle of an economic boom

9 July 2026

Spend even a day in Guinea and you can feel it: the country is reinventing itself. Cranes dot the skyline, foreign delegations arrive one after another, and inside government ministries,…

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The real challenges of industrial human-machine interfaces

26 May 2026

Anyone who has spent time in a control room quickly realizes that shift operators are not short on skill. They understand their processes, often better than the process engineers who…

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