How to manage your alarm systems
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Initiatives in alarm management are extensive and are based on the wealth of experience and knowledge end users provide. Find out ways you can save review time, improve production and safe operating conditions, and reduce downtime.
Economic justification for alarm system reengineering
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Restoring your alarm system to a useful state can eliminate duplicate and nuisance alarms, and ensure that the necessary alarms are properly prioritized and documented. This White Paper presents a model for justifying an alarm system reengineering project, and provides two case studies showing the application of the model.
Process control, production control and alarm management
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When you lift your hand to catch a ball it is very unlikely that your brain actually formulates or solves the equations of motion in working
out when and where to place your hand to catch the ball. It's much more likely that you use, unconsciously, something that's much more akin to the geometrical methods underlying the all-new Geometric Process Control
Technology described in this article.
Is advanced control ready for Prime Time?
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Early event detection can reduce the frequency and scale of process upsets, and the costs associated with them. Fuzzy logic is being used to minimize these false alerts without compromising detection and notification of actual events, but there is always a tradeoff between sensitivity and increasing the likelihood of false notifications.
Alarm reduction: A case study
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Read how this large chemical batch plant was able to restore audible alarming on half its operator consoles by reducing the number of alarms and enabling the audible alarming function of its control system, leading to improvements in productivity, safety, and cost-reduction.
5 steps to effective alarm management
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For operators, engineers, superintendents, plant managers and anyone impacted by process alarms and events, this multimedia tutorial presented by Matrikon reveals the 5 stages to integrating a successful alarm
management philosophy.
Your chance to participate in an important standards review
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Automation leaders from around the world are leading the way in defining
consensus approaches to securing manufacturing and control systems. You
are invited to contribute to that effort by reviewing the work of the
committee. Go here to choose the document you'd like to review.
Institutionalizing Alarm Management Hands-on
Workshops
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For operators, managers, team engineers and superintendents who want to
optimize existing control systems, this exclusive two day hands-on workshop
teaches the five steps to effectively institutionalizing alarm management.
• December 13 - 14, 2005 in Birmingham, Alabama
• January 23 - 24, 2006 in Portland, Oregon
• January 26 - 27, 2006 in Seattle, Washington
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