At Kestrel Coal, an upgrade was being considered for the Human Machine Interface (HMI) and the Kestrel personnel were faced with the problem of porting across a large number of alarms from one system to the next. Additionally, the alarm management system in MacroView (the HMI) had been essentially disabled - the audible alarm disconnected and the alarm page unused by the operators.
This case study examines the plan, execution and results (97% alarm reduction!) from Kestrel Coal working with Matrikon using Matrikon™ Alarm Manager.