Alarm Management Services
Alarm Management - Alarm system performance can have significant impact on the bottom line. With its expertise in alarm management, exida is uniquely qualified to upgrade your alarm management practices to improve operations and create a safer plant.
Alarm Management Services to Help You Deliver Benefits to your Bottom Line….
New system…Existing System…Migration of a Legacy System…No matter what your situation, the alarm management experts at exida can help you improve its performance. We offer the following services:
- Develop, Adopt, & Maintain an Alarm Philosophy – Establish and document the standards for how your site or company will do alarm management (prioritization, HMI design, testing, training, alarm suppression, management of change, establish performance benchmarks).
- Alarm System Requirements Specification (ASRS) - Review or create a specification to define the required alarm management functionality to be provided as part of a project / system.
- Alarm Documentation & Rationalization – Review, analyze, and justify potential alarms to create the minimum set needed to keep the process safe and under control. Document each alarm’s priority, classification, limit, cause, consequence, and corrective action in a Master Alarm Database.
- HMI Design – Design the HMI to help operators “Detect, Diagnose, and Respond” to each alarm quickly and correctly through the optimal use of color, text, patterns, navigation, screen layout, and suppression.
- Operator Training –Train the operators so they are comfortable with the system and trust it to help them do their job.
- Collect Data and Benchmark System Performance – Compare alarm system data to recommended performance metrics (average alarm load, number of alarms during a flood, priority distribution, and alarm frequency).
- Resolve Nuisance Alarms (bad actor resolution) – Identify nuisance alarms (chattering, fleeting, or stale alarms) and create a resolution plan.
- Real time Alarm Management – Use advanced alarming methods, such as state-based alarming, to “fine-tune” the system so that operators are presented with alarms only when they are relevant.
- Alarm System “Tuneup” – Periodic review of the alarm system performance to keep it operating at peak performance.
- Alarm Audit and Enforcement – Review alarm management practices and procedures to identify areas of improvement / nonconformance.
For additional information, please contact Todd Stauffer or David Hatch