Ronneby Sweden Designing Success - Industrial Process Interface Development

This master thesis describes and treats the conflict between usability and safety in designing industrial interfaces. With literature studies and case studies as a base it analyzes valuable characteristics that are important to include in a design process to increase the possibility to solve this conflict. Further, the thesis investigates several existing design methods and the most valuable parts are extracted and merged into a new method that this thesis argues to have the ability to bridge the gap between safety and usability. The TSAR method, (Task and Safety Analysis Rationale), is based on parts of several existing and established methods proven to work due to extensive usage.