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Alarm Management.

Improve the performance of your operators through effective Alarm Management.

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The exida alarm management program helps you to “deliver the right alarm at the right time to the right operator so that he/she can take the right corrective action to achieve the right result.”

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Overview

Overview

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).

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Alarm Philosophy

Alarm Philosophy

An alarm philosophy document (APD) is the cornerstone for development and sustainability of an effective alarm management program. It establishes the guidelines for how to address all aspects of alarm management

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Alarm Rationalization

Alarm Rationalization

Alarm rationalization (aka documentation and rationalization) is the process of reviewing and justifying alarms to ensure that they meet the criteria for being an alarm as defined in an alarm philosophy document.

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Case Study

exida worked with Ashland to Implement an Alarm Management Program that Makes the Alarm System More Useful during an Upset and Addresses the Loss of Experienced Operators

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Alarm Rationalization Made Easy with SILAlarm

SILAlarmTM is a tool for facilitating and documenting the results of alarm rationalization in a master alarm database for both new (greenfield) and existing (brownfield) systems. It was developed in accordance with the ISA-18.2 standard “Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries” and EEMUA 191.

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exida are the Alarm Management Subject Matter Experts. exida personnel helped write the ISA-18.2 standard on alarm management and subsequent technical reports.

Alarm Management Training Courses

We offer a range of Alarm Management training courses for professionals in the process industry, from basic to advanced concepts.We also offer customized training options available upon request.

Students benefit from exida's in-depth knowledge and expertise , enabling them to fully understand ISA-18.2 and implement procedures in their organizations to ensure that Functional Safety is maintained.

ALM 102 - Fundamentals of Alarm Management for the Practitioner: How to Apply ISA-18.2 / IEC 62682

The course is structured around the the alarm management lifecycle; reviewing the key requirements / activities of each stage along with industry best practices. It focuses in-depth on the engineering, design, implementation, and operational and improvement tasks that would be led by the practitioner; rationalization, basic alarm design, HMI design, dynamic alarming, designed alarm suppression, alarm shelving, implementation of alarm response procedures, evaluation of alarm system performance, and use of alarms as process safety safeguards and layers of protection. Human factors principles are introduced to show how they impact effective operator performance. Exercises are designed to demonstrate key principles applied in real situations. “Lessons learned” are shared from numerous successful alarm management projects around the world and from contributing to the development of the standards.

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ALM 103 - Alarm Management Operation and Maintenance

The course is structured around the operational and maintenance aspects of alarm systems. It begins with an introduction to Alarm Management, covering key concept. such as alarm rationalization, basic alarm design, HMI design, dynamic alarming, and designed alarm suppression. The course then delves deeply into operational and maintenance tasks, including alarm shelving and implementing alarm response procedures. Examples are shown from generic type systems.

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