MAP-01-011 HFI Technical Guide - Human Factors Integration ...

Chapter 5 – Team Organisationvessels. The Ship Control Centre/Control Room may become the onlycompartment to be permanently manned. The following issues will thereforeneed to be addressed when considering the future team organisation:• The ratio of highly skilled, specialised supervising engineers to less-skilledoperators under different states, e.g. start-up of propulsion system, shipcontrol when entering or leaving harbour.• The allocation of duties between supervisors and between operators interms of responsibility for controlling and monitoring different platformservices.HFI Technical Issues• The need to revert to manual operation of equipment in the event of controlor system failure or damage.• Opportunities for dispersal of platform management control andsurveillance to other points within the platform.• The extent to which unmanned operation of machinery spaces can beachieved, i.e. the need to maintain direct surveillance of equipment undernormal and abnormal conditions.In general, future marine engineering equipment will enable reductions inmanning levels, which will have an impact on the team organisation. Examplesof areas where technology will have this effect include the following:• Integrated Full Electric Propulsion.• Environmental monitoring systems.• Self-activating fire control systems.• Built in test, self-diagnosis of faults, automatic redundancy and remotemaintenance.The logical direction in the future is to maximise the use of these technologies tothe extent that platform management functions may be fully automated. In thefuture the Bridge may directly control propulsion, plant may only have to beserviced on return to port whilst damage control may be dispersed across theplatform or controlled from the Operations compartment.5.1.5 Other TeamsWhilst previous sections have referred specifically to the Combat Systems Teamand the Marine Engineering Team, the HFI issues related to the needs of otherteams such as the Weapons Engineering, Air Department, and SupplyDepartment need to be given equal consideration.Nov 2006 Page 5-11 Issue 4