Matrikon Inc.

March, 2006

Advanced Condition Monitoring

Power Pacesetter Strategies:
Wednesday
March 22, 2006

Alarm Management Solutions for the Power Industry

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Studies show that over 50% of fossil plant shutdowns are caused by equipment failure and operator error.

This one hour webcast will teach you the strategies, processes and tools needed to optimize your assets and dramatically reduce operator error; ultimately resulting in increased plant reliability and safety.

You will learn:

  • Discover the power industry standards for alarm management
  • Understand the main causes of operator error
  • Learn the alarm management lifecycle and how to implement an effective project
  • See how effective alarm management produces proven results, including a 30% reduction in operator error downtime
  • Learn how the latest enterprise-wide technology can help your plant become more productive and a pacesetter in the power industry
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Presented by:
Presenter - Lanre Badmus

Dr. Lanre Badmus, PhD, MBA
Senior Business and
Technical Consultant
Matrikon
Advanced Condition Monitoring in
Upstream Production
As engineers adapt to the changes in their roles brought on by demographic and technology shifts, the advent of continuous monitoring systems will finally empower technical people to spend their time doing technical analysis, not collecting and fighting with data.

In upstream production, advanced condition monitoring is now being applied to wells, equipment, transportation and distribution with significant benefits in increased production and reduced costs. Read this whitepaper and discover the disciplined methodology that will yield remarkable, long-term benefits for upstream facilities.


Read this whitepaper (432 KB, PDF)





Databases are consistently being used as the gateway to interface with information. Almost everything that we do with a computer or process has databases somewhere in the process. With the industry acceptance of OPC to standardize the way that plant floor devices share data with software applications such as HMIs, Process historians and trenders.

Read more about how OPC utilizes standards based connectivity to easily keep pace with any database.

Read this whitepaper (113 KB, PDF)




Case Studies
Propal Pulp and Paper Integrating Live Production Data with Business Applications
This in depth case study describes how Propal Paper Production in Valle del Cauca, leveraged standards-based OPC industrial connectivity to provide an off-the-shelf economical solution to stay competitive in the demanding paper market.
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Rio Tinto Significantly Increases Productivity and Safety with Alarm Management Project
Rio Tinto, the world's second largest producer of iron ore, used ProcessGuard to reduce it's mean daily alarm count by 97%, in it's Kestrel mine. This rationalization project received PACE magazines Zenith Award for 2004 which publicly recognises and rewards industrial applications that most successfully demonstrate technological excellence and innovation.
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Global Workshop Schedule                                                              Certification Benefits

  • Prepare your plant for new regulations.
  • Successfully eliminate up to 75% of your alarms.
  • Improve safety standards while reducing downtime.
  • Learn strategies to prioritize and configure alarm settings.
  • Reduce alarm management implementation time by 30%.
  • Examine successful working solutions.
AMSS Certification
"I suggest that anyone and everyone remotely or primarily involved with (process) alarms attend this excellent course. It is a MUST for all!"

Barend Esterhuizen
Eskom


Global Workshop Schedule                                                              Certification Benefits

  • Quickly troubleshoot and diagnose Windows security problems
  • Solve system connectivity issues using field-tested OPC technology
  • Reduce integration time by learning to install, configure & test OPC
  • Improve system reliability using standards-based technology
  • Reduce long term ownership costs by building robust systems
OPCSI Certification
"The OPC Hands-on Workshop walked us through many of the common interconnectivity issues we are faced with daily."

Purun Vadhanakul
BOC


Matrikon Valued Partners Event
Partners for Success, Reaching New Heights
Matrikon - One of North America's fastest growing Total Solution Providers for Integrated Industrial Intelligence is pleased to invite you to our Annual Users Group: Matrikon Valued Partners Event - MVP2006!

MVP2006 promises to deliver an unequaled agenda of general and parallel track sessions that will include top executive level presentations, insightful panel discussions, actual case studies describing business benefits, and high quality technical content delivered at the solution showcase and hands-on demonstration sessions.

MVP North America
May 8 - 10, 2006
The RimRock Resort Hotel
Banff, AB, Canada
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MVP Australia
March 29 - 30, 2006
Shoal Bay Resort
Shoal Bay, Australia Capital Territory, Australia
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Alarm MOCCA’s Operator Assist

 Matrikon's tool for Alarm Rationalization assistance and automated Distributive Control System (DCS) Management of Change (MOC) makes it easy to access alarm documentation for decision support in real-time. The help pane provides context sensitive assistance by filtering out parameters not relevant to the active alarm. The assistance can be accessed out-of-the-box from ProcessGuard’s Real-Time Viewer or from DCS graphics. Operator Assist is served from Matrikon’s ProcessNet Server, which allows customers to choose whether users can write to the Alarm MOCCA database, or just access information. This allows the tool to be used as a knowledge-capture mechanism to help facilities manage personnel attrition.
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1-877-628-7456
 Matrikon website