My impression was that the control console is probably coupled too tightly to the control system, that removing and replacing it with something modern wouldn’t be feasable or worth the effort.
I find it unlikely that they need to see all those dials at once, but without a modal system to switch between data views they need to show every data point. On a modern system you could achieve the same by having views specific to each task, and an alerting system for when a data point for that task goes out of range.
Here is an image from a modern Austrian steel factory run by 3 people - half of the screens on the top row are just showing CCTV images:
I find it unlikely that they need to see all those dials at once, but without a modal system to switch between data views they need to show every data point. On a modern system you could achieve the same by having views specific to each task, and an alerting system for when a data point for that task goes out of range.
Here is an image from a modern Austrian steel factory run by 3 people - half of the screens on the top row are just showing CCTV images:
http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/17/25/1498153350-699054458-1.jpg