Control Room Furniture

DSM Case Study

Brief: An existing manufacturing process control room was to be upgraded to accommodate a new Honeywell GUS operator station system. This was to comprise 2 banks of 4 x 20” TFT monitors, 2 large keyboard panels, telephone units plus 2 non-essential PC’s. All other hardware critical to the continuity of the manufacturing process was to be accommodated in a fire protected equipment room.

The proposal is based on our ‘Kontrol System’ with bespoke desk shapes. The desk surface has a lower rear monitor platform with our toolbar monitor arm system that provides full adjustability (depth, height, angle, etc). This is to be fitted with a rear screen and a cable tray that leads down the centre of the Kontrol leg units. These have lift off side panels for cable access. The telephones are mounted on a lower pod to allow visual access over to the factory. The 2 PC’s are also accommodated with the base units in cradles beneath the desk surface (far enough back so as not to impede knee room) and 2 paper trays above. The layout is completed with an admin table and printer stand.

The equipment room is totally enclosed with our ModularIT fire protected room system. This consists of wall and ceiling panels plus door systems to give a very high level of protection (tested to 950 degC) from external fires, smoke, dust and water. The control room is also to be built with our wall panels on 2 sides (existing block wall to the front) and our ceiling panels. Fire suppression is to be installed in the equipment room with detection in the control room. Both rooms are to have a 300mm high raised access floor with the necessary ramps and stairs. The main door into the control room – which is a fire door with a 4 sided double rebated frame – provides a high level of physical security and is fitted with a proximity access control system that can be fully monitored. The room is also to be fitted with an appropriate lighting scheme controlled from the main desk.

This area is critical to the continuity of the manufacturing process and it is felt by the company and their insurance company that it should have the highest possible levels of physical and environmental security – in additional to an ergonomically sound (but cost effective) control desk.