Alarm Analysis
avtor: Intelligent Plant Ltd
Drill down reports and detailed analysis, quick identification of bad actors and other problem areas
Alarm Analysis links to your alarm collectors and provides an enterprise-wide set of KPIs and analyses compliant with EEMUA 191 Rev 3.
Steps to successful Alarm Management:
Alarm Systems form an essential part of the operator interfaces to large modern industrial facilities. They provide vital support to the operators by warning them of situations that need their attention. The steps to successful alarm management include:
- Create an Alarm Philosophy - Defines everything about the Alarm System
- Benchmark Alarm Performance - If you can't measure it, you can't manage it
- Alarm System Auditing - An interview plant personnel, collate data, recommend improvements
- Resolve Bad Actors - Analyse and diagnose problem alarms
- Alarm Rationalisation - Systematic review and documentation of alarms in the DCS system with the objective of optimising quantity and quality
- Management of Change - Procedures in place to ensure DCS alarm settings are only changed with proper authority and documentation
- Control & Maintain Alarm System Performance - Long term monitoring to ensure new projects, decommissioned equipment, and natural degradation does not erode achieved improvements
Key Features
- Calculates alarm KPIs on your alarm system within the date range that you set.
- Several sets of bad actor types are identified and detailed tag analyses then allow individual bad actors to be quickly evaluated and their problems addressed.
- The single, consolidated, enterprise database will also store alert and event information from other corporate applications.
- Compatible with Gestalt Trend, allowing users to easily trend any tags of interest.
What makes us unique?
- Intelligent Plant has a data connectivity tool that allows our apps to access data directly from site. We do not need to store your data - your data remains in your control.
- We can connect to a variety of different historians and data types. Contact info@intelligentplant.com to discuss your set up with us. We'll confirm whether we are able to connect.
About Intelligent Plant
Intelligent Plant are a Scottish software company, founded in 2006. We specialise in the acquisition, visualisation, and analysis of industrial data. We are providers of the Industrial App Store which contains numerous application designed to help users enhance their understanding of plant processes, and achieve optimisation of assets.