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Old 11th Jun 2006, 10:55
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Lon More

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Try using your method with an electronic strip display system.
FWIW when we introduced a stripless environment, back in the 1980s, part of the problem in getting it accepted by everyone was the fact that it was percived as strips being presented electronically. When they got away from this mind set the change was no great problem. For a period both systems ran parallel, then strips were produced, but no requirement to update them, then they were produced , but no longer distributed, then the printers were switched off.
I spent some ime at NERC during the trials and was not very impressed by the adherence to the strip form of display.
I know that a totally paperless environment is impossible to acheieve - where else could you put the coffee orders? - but with the introduction of data links, etc. updating paper is just a duplication of workload. Also with an electronic system there is only one way of doing it.

As I said, personal opinion from a retired controller
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