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See Clearly

Avoiding unnecessary plant shutdown by effective alarm management

Workload per operator often increases faster than process reengineering efforts, causing them to be inundated by recurrent alarm

Relieve operators of repetitious and spurious alarms while making them more alert to critical alarms and predictive alerts

Alarm flooding going unattended:

AAASuite advanced alarm administrator:

- Causes oversights, delays, and incorrect operations

- Leads to a higher risk of overlooking critical information that may lead to hazardous situation

- Less nuisance alarms:
Suppresses nuisance alarms automatically with embedded diagnostic logic

- More value-adding alarms:
Adds and highlights value-adding alarms for quick and effective decision making Operators watchful of meaningful alarms and predictive alerts

BEFORE: Operators inundated with spurious alarms

AFTER: Operators watchful of meaningful alarms and predictive alerts

The See Clearly Advantage

Embedded diagnostic logic of Advanced Alarm Administrator automatically reduces nuisance alarms while directing your operators' attention to critical alarms and predictive alerts. By avoiding alarm flooding, you help your operators take effective action to prevent critical conditions and unnecessary plant shutdown. With effective alarm management, the right information is always made visible to the right people.

AAASuite Suppress / Alarm reactivation / Predictive alarm menu

Key Technologies

Automatic alarm diagnosis

- Embedded diagnostic engine automatically detects potential unnecessary alarms from the alarm log.

Automatic alarm repetition suppression

- Repetition of unnecessary alarms can be automatically suppressed by changing alarm settings in the DCS.

Audit trail

- The suppressed alarm type and its reason code can be stored in the system audit trail. This can be used for future, fundamental improvements.

AAASuite suppresses long-standing false HI/LO alarms

The Voice of an Industry Leader

"We used Yokogawa solutions and cut the number of alarms by 93%. Operators now have more time to attend to true process concerns. Alarm management does work. Management now understands and fully supports the value of alarm management and that it is a continuous on-going process."

Mike Redman, EVAL Company of America