PSS Alarm Advanced Elements extend the comprehensiveness and rigor of your alarm management program to include Documentation and Rationalization, as well as critical real-time alarm management functions. Because of the real-time nature of these applications, they have been designed to work together in unison with a high degree of functional synchronization. PSS Alarm Advanced Elements ensure that the operator receives clear, relevant, and timely alarm information to effectively operate the plant through both normal conditions and abnormal situations.

The PSS Alarm Advanced Elements include:

PSS Documentation and Rationalization provides a comprehensive platform for capturing causes, consequences and corrective actions related to process alarms. It can be customized to meet the sites specific alarm management philosophy and strategies, and adheres to EEMUA best practices.

PSS Audit and Enforce monitors changes in control system parameters and enables the restoration of approved values if any have changed. Audits may be scheduled or triggered by a pre-defined event. This provides a method to maintain alarm settings or ensure specific conditions are met upon a specific event. Exception reporting is provided in either case.

PSS Alarm Shelving provides the ability, qualified by appropriate security privileges, to temporarily disable nuisance alarms, and generate reports to facilitate corrective action. With this application, operators can safely shelve alarms that are repeatedly activated, and after a configurable period, they will be automatically re-enabled. Specific alarms may also be prevented from being shelved.

PSS Dynamic Alarming detects the current operating state of the plant and dynamically modifies alarm settings based on that state. It works in conjunction with Alarm Shelving, and Audit and Enforce to provide a consistent approach to achieving EEMUA and ISA best practices for real-time alarm management.