This approach, does not address the real problem companies face: 'How do I manage my alarm system?'.
The alarm management solution must directly target the real issues. The solution must take into account the key elements of the total alarm management problem, including:
- Alarm archiving
- Alarm analysis
- Alarm enforcement
- Establishing a consistent alarm philosophy
- Managing the reasons for, and the history of alarm settings
- Correlating alarms to plant equipment and state information
- Intelligent alarming based on alarm relationships to plant and equipment state and process data
This white paper provides the detail behind what Matrikon is doing in each of the areas listed above.