AGRICULTURE
PAS AlarmManagement™
A robust and well-maintained alarm system is fundamental to operator situation awareness, mitigating abnormal situations and ensuring safe and reliable operations. It’s also required in many industries. But effectively managing and maintaining your alarm solutions is tricky. It’s easy to drown operators in noise rather than actionable information. Poorly performing alarm systems plagued by alarm floods, nuisance alarms and uncontrolled alarm suppression have a direct, negative, impact on plant production and safety. PAS AlarmManagement provides robust, simple to use, dynamic software that makes it easy to create an ISA 18.2 and IEC 62682 complaint alarm management program that reduces noise, improves alarm quality and ensures the right information gets to the right places at the right time. With an industry-leading alarm management solution – enabled by Hexagon – your operations will have the resources they need, today and in the future, to achieve maximum effectiveness and continuously improve operations.
Reduce Fatigue Improve Effectiveness
A person can only process so much information. Streamline and optimize your alarms to improve effectiveness and reduce operator fatigue.
Trigger Actions, Not Distractions
Alarms mean that critical, immediate, action is needed. They should not be used to deliver information that doesn’t require prompt action.
Drive Compliance
Industry standards and recommended practices require alarm management solutions. Implementing them correctly can have a positive impact on your bottom line.
Stop The Noise
Eliminate the noise in your system so operators can clearly see the alarms that need to be seen.
Multiple Assets, One Solution
Manage all your alarms seamlessly regardless of where they come from with a vendor-agnostic solution.
Help Solve Problems
Deliver the data and context operators need to solve the problems that triggered your alarms.
Understanding & Applying the ANSI-ISA 18.2 Alarm Management
ISA has published alarm management best practices since 2009. This paper reviews the scope, regulatory compliance and other details of the ANSI/ISA-18.2 Alarm Management Standard for the power and processing industries.
Reducing Operator Alarm Load by 60%
Learn how Contact Energy reduced their alarm load by 60% while increasing operator effectiveness and reducing operator fatigue.
When Too Many Alarms Get in the Way
With more than 1.5 billion alarms and events per year, Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) embarked on an overhaul of its alarm management system that improved operator situation awareness, ISA 18.2 compliance, and reduced cost.
Improving Plant Safety and Profitability through Alarm Optimization
DSM Fibre Intermediates launched an alarm optimization project that fixed the problems in their alarm system and radically transformed day-to-day operations for the better.
Proven Methods of Alarm Management for Power Generation
Learn how you can consistently enhance the operator’s ability to respond to abnormal conditions and enable operational improvements in safety, reliability, resilience and compliance with improved alarm system management.
The Alarm Management Handbook
This handbook provides a field-proven methodology for improving the performance of Industrial facilities’ alarm systems. It derives from over a decade of research and the lessons learned from hundreds of successful alarm improvement projects.