PSS Alarm Essentials are the basic applications required for any alarm management program. These applications encompass steps two (Data Collection and Benchmarking) and three (Bad Actor Alarm Resolution) in the seven-step methodology developed by PAS for creating a highly effective alarm management system.

The PSS Alarm Essentials package includes:

Alarm and Event Analysis draws upon your control systems’ alarm and event data to facilitate a wide range of analyses. It establishes the current state of the alarm system, and identifies areas for improvement. The alarm and event analysis also provides the metrics for alarm KPI reporting.
Real-Time Alarm Scanner provides plant personnel an alternate view of control system alarms and events from their desktop in real time.
Standing Alarm Summary provides a view of the standing alarms without returns, which is determined from the event log. The summary pagewill automatically update with alarm acknowledgments and returns.
Process and Event Explorer facilitates incident investigations by providing a synchronized composite view of events and process trend data for the same period. This enables the reconstruction of occurrences leading up to, during and subsequent to a process upset or incident.
Alarm and Event Journal provides engineers, shift supervisors, technicians and others an offline view of alarms and operator changes from their desktop. The user can select the start date, the end date, and the journal entry types to be viewed.
Maintenance Log provides the ability to track the maintenance activities relative to alarms. It also allows for the removal of these alarms from frequent alarm analysis.