Increase Alarm Effectiveness & Reduce Distractions With Alarm Adviser Adam Barnes – Product Manager SCADA Why did the number of alarms increase? • Automation evolution (including fieldbus) brought more accessible information per sensor/actuator • Alarms are easily configurable now (no more wired) -> no real cost at engineering or operating time to add alarms • People (e.g. SI’s) tend to believe more is better: nothing can happen without notice if everything has an attached alarm 2014 Software Global Client Conference Typical observed behavior ● Operator overload leading to ● Over-acknowledgement to keep management happy and control room quieter ● Inhibiting “noisy alarms” ● Missing important alarms ● Not being able to mitigate in proper time 2014 Software Global Client Conference Texaco Pembroke 1994 Piper Alpha North sea 1988 Operators have too many alarms to manage What can we do? 2014 Software Global Client Conference First of All – Why Alarm System Management has become an important operational tool to: Save time and money – deal with important conditions only Reduce risk – hardware maintenance, plant operation, incidents Improve effectiveness of operations – focus on the real issues 2014 Software Global Client Conference A set of Standards and Guidelines ● EEMUA 191, Alarm systems a guide to design ● Namur NA 102 Worksheet, Alarm Management ● NPD YA 711, Principles for alarm design (Norwegian petroleum doctorate slowly adopted throughout Europe as the standard) ● VDI/VDE Guideline 3699 (process control using monitors) ● API RP-1167 Alarm Management for Pipeline Systems ● ANSI/ISA-18.2, Management of alarm systems for the process industries ANSI/ISA-18.2 Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries 2014 Software Global Client Conference API RP-1167 Alarm Management For Pipeline Systems DMAIC ANSI/ISA-18.2 offers a lifecycle model Define an alarm improvement program Measure the current situation Analyse the areas for improvement Improve the situation Control and hold the gain with metrics 2014 Software Global Client Conference Wonderware Alarm Adviser ● Wonderware Alarm Adviser is a web based tool for discovering nuisance alarms in your process system through interactive visual analysis ● Total, frequent, standing, fleeting and consequential views allow nuisance alarm to be easily identified ● Dashboards make it possible to benchmark and maintain your alarm performance in line with industry standards 2014 Software Global Client Conference Product Walkthrough Alarm Adviser - Overview ● Common UI/UX ● Up to 10 years of historic alarm data ● Multiple sites/plants/systems ● Connects to ● Vijeo Citect ● InTouch ● System Platform ● ClearSCADA ● Foxboro (future) 2014 Software Global Client Conference Configuration – Priority & Severity Dashboard The dashboard is available to all users Dashboard – User defined KPIs 2014 Software Global Client Conference Dashboard Widgets Dashboard Widgets - Customization Dashboard Widgets - Customization Alarm Activity - Time Range Alarm Activity – Severity Distribution Alarm Activity and Filtering Alarm Activity and Filtering Alarm Activity – Data Table Frequent Alarms Frequent Alarms – Detail of Selected Long Standing Alarms – Most Frequent Long Standing Alarms – Most Frequent Long Standing Alarms - Longest Long Standing Alarms – Total Fleeting Alarms – Most Frequent Fleeting Alarms – Export Data Table Fleeting Alarms – Total Consequence/Cascading Consequence/Cascading Favourites - Adding Favourites - Managing Solution References 2014 Software Global Client Conference ©2014 Schneider Electric. All Rights Reserved. All trademarks are owned by Schneider Electric Industries SAS or its affiliated companies or their respective owners.
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