Alert Director

EEMUA and the ASM Consortium® recommend the use of task reminders and notifications of non-critical operating conditions as a best practice. Absent this functionality, operations often uses control system alarms to achieve this capability, which leads to alarm flooding and operator error. The ANSI/ISA-18.2 standard indicates that the alarm system should be reserved for items meeting the definition of an alarm. Alert Director supplements a well-managed alarm system by eliminating this need to configure unnecessary alarms.

Alert Director is also useful to other departments within a plant including Engineering, Maintenance, and Plant Management. It can be used to notify these departments of system events, such as tank levels, unit trips, and any other process conditions.

Key features include:

Easy-to-use web interface for creating & editing alerts
Data collection from control systems via OPC DA
Alerts can be acknowledged, suspended, edited, reactivated, filtered, and sorted