DOWNLOAD THE SERVITECNO WHITE PAPER ALARM MANAGEMENT_EEMUA191-ISA18.2
When it comes to control systems, remote control, automation in industry as in utilities, alarm management is an important topic: we have all heard stories of operators becoming “addicted” to “alarm floods”, “alarm chattering” or “alarm flares” which often present too much information for proper management and prioritization by an operator.
It also happens that sometimes the alarms have been disabled when they should have been active, the setpoints have been modified to reduce "annoying trips to the control-room": this causes a dangerous drift towards alarm solutions that can be misleading or even worse, presenting inappropriate information when an event occurs.
With results that in many of our process industries can be costly or catastrophic.
This brief guide talks about alarm management systems, criteria to be taken into consideration in planning, useful for management, also for a re-evaluation of existing systems.
Reference is made to EEMUA191 and ANSI/ISA18.2 standards.