Consolidated Alarm Management System (CAMS)
Immediate CAMS Benefits
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| Sorting/Filtering | |
| Operators can filter and sort alarm messages using alarm attribute identifiers included in the alarm messages as the keys. Engineering-less filters such as process alarm filter and plant-hierarchy filter can be used immediately. Users can define unique filters and flexibly create temporary filters. | |
| Eclipsing | |
| Alarm messages that are repeatedly activated by the same tag can be collapsed and displayed as a single line. Eclipsing reduces the number of alarm messages being displayed and allows operators to identify critical alarms easily. | |
| Shelving | |
| Unnecessary alarms can be temporarily moved to “shelves”. Operators can shelve unnecessary alarms manually. Chattering alarms can be automatically moved to the shelves for a certain period of time or at a certain clock time. Similarly, alarms that match user-defined conditions can be automatically moved to the shelves. | |
| Load Shedding | |
| If too many alarms are displayed in a short period of time due to an unexpected event, predefined filters can be automatically activated to reduce the operators’ monitoring load. | |
