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An operator in a highly automated chemical plant was found to be engaged on a variety of tasks. Some were of a routine nature: reading measuring instruments and recording the results at predetermined times, checking parts of the equipment and taking remedial action, cleaning, writing reports. Others varied in the frequency and the amount of attention required: keeping operating conditions within specified limits (by controlling a battery of valves), informing other parts of the plant about changes, bringing into action reserve machines in case of breakdowns or overloading, carrying out minor repairs, receiving messages.
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See, for example, Eilon, S. (1962) Industrial Engineering Tables (Van Nostrand), or G.E.C.: Tables of the Individual and Cumulative Terms of Poisson Distribution (Van Nostrand, 1962).
See, for example, Houlden, B. T. (1962) Some Techniques of Operational Research (English Universities Press)
or Cox, D. R. and Smith W. L. (1963) Queues (Methuen).
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Eilon, S., Hall, R.I., King, J.R. (1966). Operator’s Workload in a Chemical Plant. In: Exercises in Industrial Management. Studies in Management. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00457-7_11
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