Your "thoughts" paragraph at the end of your email is how I have seen many control rooms installed. With all workstation PC's in a separate room from operators using the extended mouse/keyboard setup, along with switches. A key piece which is often overlooked is noise. So consider how noise will be baffled. Either by floor material, ceiling material, or added specialty products along where walls meet ceilings. I've been in a control room that was about the half the size of a football field, with 40+ operators, and it would seem I could hear a pin drop with many conversations and activity going on. -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Butler Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 9:14 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] Control Room Design Design your dream control room! Well design it and then have Upper Management cut your budget in half, but until then at least we can dream! We are in the early stages of a new administration building design and I've been asked how big of a control room I would need. Assuming they will approve me to move out of the existing building that is...... Stats on our current setup: * 53'x31' room with raised floor and drop ceiling * Mesh Switches are in an adjacent room, everything else is in the main room * 9 to 15 Boardmen, 24/7 * 8 Process areas within the Plant * Utilizing 24 workstations, 78 monitors * Cubicle in the corner, bookshelves and lockers along the walls make this room VERY crowded. Thoughts on what you like/do not like about your current control rooms? My initial thought is to add 15' in each direction making the control room 68'X46' and add a 15' deep climate controlled room along the 46' end that would house all workstations and switches. . Then only run Keyboard/Monitor/Mouse into the control room. (Restrooms and Kitchenette would be separate). In addition to size, any other design ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance! _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys plc, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at 3rd Floor, 40 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7AW (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please go to http://www.invensys.com/en/legal/default.aspx. You may contact Invensys plc on +44 (0)20 3155 1200 or e-mail reception@xxxxxxxxxxxxx This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave