5 Console Design Challenges
(How AEGIS + COMPOSE Solve Them)
You’re leading a control room upgrade project, and your budget, console design, and overall plan are due by Friday – no big deal, right?
Except you’re stuck choosing consoles straight from the dial-up era, with ergonomics that scream “backache incoming,” support staff who reply once every leap year, and assembly instructions straight out of IKEA nightmares.
With the clock ticking, you need consoles that are intuitive, ergonomic, and custom-designed for your 24/7 operations. Oh, and let’s not forget—you also need pricing details and specs clear enough to instantly satisfy your procurement team’s endless “enthusiasm.”
What’s your next move? Go.
Control room projects typically form just one part of larger infrastructure initiatives, meaning the majority of attention—and budget—is often directed toward critical technology and infrastructure upgrades.
This leaves control room furniture decisions at risk of falling behind, turning each budget delay into lost days, forcing teams into last-minute scrambles to source consoles that match project timelines and operational demands.
Sound familiar? You wouldn’t be the first team to call Tresco only after infrastructure and technology were locked down, realizing too late that the furniture design hasn’t even started.
In fact, we frequently step in at precisely that point—when deadlines loom, procurement meetings spin in circles, and you need a trusted partner to rescue your timeline with speed, expertise, and a proven ability to deliver under pressure.
Let’s cut to the chase. Here are the main headaches, designers, Integrators, project Owners, and procurement professionals consistently face, and exactly how Tresco’s upcoming product will solve them:
Main Challenges for Control Room Integrators
- Console Design Timelines Are Too Slow
- Teams Lack Expertise in Ergonomic Control Room Furniture
- Console Layouts Are Hard to Visualize for Stakeholders
- Control Room Console Pricing Is Too Hard to Get
- It’s Difficult to Find Reliable Control Room Console Manufacturers—Fast
Console Design Timelines Are Too Slow
Designing control room consoles the traditional way involves back-and-forth emails, CAD delays, and endless revisions—especially when working across integrators, end users, and purchasing. This eats up valuable time and pushes critical project milestones.
How COMPOSE Solves It
COMPOSE is Tresco’s web-based console configurator designed to accelerate your timeline. You can build and visualize control room furniture layouts in real time—no software download, no learning curve. Configure dimensions, monitor mounts, equipment bays, and finishes in minutes, and export ready-to-share visuals and specs. With AEGIS as the paired console line, your design moves smoothly from concept to production in weeks, not months.
Teams Lack Expertise in Ergonomic Control Room Furniture
Most integrators aren’t trained in ISO 11064 or human factors. And expecting stakeholders to interpret technical layouts or identify poor ergonomic choices is unrealistic. Yet ergonomics directly affects operator safety, fatigue, and long-term performance.
How AEGIS Solves It
AEGIS consoles are engineered from the ground up to meet ISO 11064 ergonomic standards. Height adjustability, sightline management, reach zones, and worksurface edge clearances are all pre-built into the design. COMPOSE makes this expertise accessible—you don’t need to be an ergonomist to get the right setup. Simply select your preferred layout, and the system guides you through ergonomically sound choices.
Console Layouts Are Hard to Visualize for Stakeholders
Even good design ideas fall flat when you can’t communicate them clearly. Static floor plans and spec sheets don’t help stakeholders envision how the final control room will look or function.
How COMPOSE Solves It
COMPOSE includes a visual builder that generates 3D renderings of your control room console layout as you go. Need to show a supervisor the leg clearance under a sit-stand workstation? Want to demo a 3-position straight console versus a 4-position curved setup? Just adjust your build and hit preview. The visuals are clean, branded, and easy to share—no design background needed.
Control Room Console Pricing Is Too Hard to Get
Console pricing is often a mystery until weeks into the quoting process. You submit requirements, wait for engineering, then get a quote that may or may not match your budget or timeline.
How COMPOSE + AEGIS Solve It
AEGIS was built to standardize high-performance control room furniture and make pricing transparent. COMPOSE ties directly into our manufacturing system, so as you design, you see a dynamic bill of materials and can request instant pricing. No hidden costs. No surprises. You get everything you need—drawings, materials, and budget estimates—without delay.
It’s Difficult to Find Reliable Control Room Console Manufacturers—Fast
Procurement teams are often forced to choose between speed and quality. On one side, there are generic office desks rebranded as “control room furniture”—cheap and fast, but not built for real 24/7 operations. On the other, high-end consoles with lead times so long they jeopardize your project schedule.
How AEGIS Solves It
AEGIS bridges that gap. It’s a fully tailored control room console—engineered for mission-critical use, compliant with ISO 11064, and designed with operator comfort and durability in mind. But unlike traditional custom consoles, AEGIS can ship in as little as 4 weeks. That means you no longer have to choose between speed and quality. With COMPOSE, you can configure your console online and lock in fast production—giving your project the best of both worlds.
All that backed by 40+ years of Tresco’s experience, AEGIS gives your team the confidence of proven reliability and support—even under tight timelines.
The Future of Console Sourcing Starts Now
Control rooms are evolving fast—and the pressure to keep pace is real. But many teams still rely on outdated furniture sourcing processes that waste time, limit flexibility, and leave operators working in less-than-ideal conditions.
That’s where innovation makes all the difference.
With AEGIS and the COMPOSE configurator, you don’t just get better control room consoles—you get a faster, smarter, and more operator-focused way to design and procure them. It’s about taking back control of your timeline, your budget, and your design—without compromising on performance.
If you’re ready to eliminate sourcing stress and bring modern simplicity to your control room projects, Tresco’s newest tools are ready for you.
Your next console shouldn’t feel like a compromise. It should feel like a breakthrough.
- Ergonomic
- Affordable
- Faster to produce
- Aesthetic
- Flexible
- Functional
- Futureproof
- Versatile
Yes, You can have it all.