Benchmarking your alarm system
What’s needed to describe the performance effectiveness of your alarm system or governance during a regulatory or corporate audit
Alarm Philosophy documentation
Alarm Philosophy, What is it? What should it contain and how do I create one that complies with the requirements mandated in the alarm management standards?
The importance and role of MoC
It is widely recognised throughout the process industries that making changes to assets can be prone to error; and indeed, some plant accidents and incidents have been attributed to unapproved changes
Master Alarm Database, what format?
A Master Alarm Database (MADb) is one of the fundamental building blocks required to underpin the success of any alarm improvement initiative.
Alarm Enforcement … or not?
Alarm Enforcement is the process of comparing Process Control System (PCS) alarm attributes with the authorised list of alarm attributes held within a site’s Master Alarm Database (MADb)
Alarm System Performance KPI.
Alarm system performance KPI’s have been around since the release of EEMUA 191.The Bransby & Jenkinson survey performed in 1998 concluded that one alarm per ten minutes was considered very likely to be acceptable.
Effective Alarm management.
This white paper will give you some hints, some obvious and some less obvious, on how you ensure your rationalisation project runs as smoothly as possible
Timely Alarms..
What does it mean?
IEC 62682 introduced the word ‘timely’ in the definition of an alarm. This paper discusses what this means, how timeliness can be measured and how alarm systems can be improved to meet this criterium.
Minimising alarm proliferation.
This white paper considers how to minimise alarm proliferation during upgrades or installation of new alarm systems, so that your operators don’t end up inundated with unnecessary, nuisance alarms.
Success Stories
Premier Oil
ProcessVue Analyser software is 100% reliable at Premier Oil’s Balmoral platform.
Interconnector UK
ProcessVue Analyser solves two-way remote alarm management challenge on UK-Belgium bi-directional gas pipeline.
Drax Power
ProcessVue Analyser improves alarm management and mean-time-to-repair at Drax Power Station.
EDF West Burton B
EDF Energy can now perform accurate process alarm analysis and has taken huge steps in rationalising and reducing alarm loads using ProcessVue Analyser and Guardian.
Gas utility company
A major US-based natural gas distribution utility company has selected ProcessVue Analyser to report on process alarms across its operation.
Biomass Power Station
ProcessVue Analyser helps to improve alarms and identify root cause of plant upsets at a UK biomass power station.
