A properly managed alarm system has become an integral and critical part of any production and process facility. EEMUA 191 since it was first published in 1999 became the de facto guideline to which industry looked for guidance and good practise on alarm management and alarm management systems. Today, we have a set of standards such as IEC 62682 and in the UK - BS 62682.

To establish a system based on these standards and guidelines or merely ascertain if a current system is working effectively and within the KPI’s set out in these regulatory documents, alarm data must be continuously collected and analysed. With many disparate sources of alarm data from multiple control system vendors, just collecting data can be a challenge in itself.

The ProcessVue Suite of software has been developed with the benefit of over 40 years’ experience in alarm management systems. The architecture has been designed to allow interfacing with virtually any control system, bringing all data into a standard configurable format, for simple Sequence of Event display, high level Key Performance Indicator reporting and analysis and Master Alarm Database (MADb) for rationalisation and documentation.