Unified Alarm Management Platform

This comprehensive solution seamlessly integrates and centralizes alarm data from multiple HMI/SCADA systems. Featuring multi-channel notification capabilities to ensure critical alerts reach the right personnel instantly.

The Issues and Challenges

Existing Alarm Management Issues 

In modern industrial production, manufacturing processes have become increasingly complex and rigorous. However, many factories in the world have aged considerably, and the alarm designs in DCS and SCADA systems may no longer meet current needs.

Issues

In the absence of adequate planning and review, excessive alarms frequently result in monitoring personnel struggling to maintain pace.

With a multitude of equipment and processes on site, daily anomalies can number in the tens of thousands. Engineers and analysts expend significant effort analyzing data, identifying changes, and resolving alarms.

 

Challenges

The volume of daily alarms generated by SCADA and DCS systems can reach into the tens of thousands, rendering manual analysis both time-intensive and restrictive in terms of the number of items that can be effectively evaluated.

Optimizing alarm management demands ongoing and sustained enhancement, requiring the implementation of alarm integration and analysis tools to augment alarm interpretation capabilities and improve the efficiency of alarm review processes.

Solution

Based on over 30 years of practical experience in implementing SCADA alarm systems, we provides Plant-wide Alarm Management and Notification Solution

Alarm integrated interface
Integrated info and Unified Platform : For tracking alarm events and inspection audits, personnel can access the platform through any device connected to the intranet to fill in reports directly. Management can then have a comprehensive view through the integrated interface.
alarm analysis & statistics
Analytics and Visualization : Beyond alarm information integration, the platform provides categorization and statistics of alarm types and quantities, offering visualization analysis charts that operation personnel to gain deeper insights more quickly, achieving preventive measures or alarm improvements.
Multi-channel alarm notify
Automated Notification: The platform integrates automated notification mechanisms, simultaneously sending alerts through multiple channels including: LINE, WeChat Work, SMS, Email, Microsoft Teams, and voice calls.
Alarm report generate
Report Generation Automation : The system uses standardized report templates and automatically populates data, generating scheduled reports and distributing customized reports based on different user requirements. This not only eliminates concerns about human error but also allows the saved time to be spent on more valuable analysis and improvement activities.

Implement Results

This centralized alarm management platform consolidates multiple alarm sources and manages them through standardized classification and hierarchical management. Additionally, it automatically generates alarm trend analysis charts, visualizing cross-database data to achieve more comprehensive cross-analysis. As a result, alarms and anomalies during the production process can be handled effectively. This solution provides three main benefits  :

  • Alarm Performance Analysis

  • Alarm Configuration Analysis

  • Process Setting Change Analysis

Analyze and identify problematic alarms in the system for improvement. Performance analysis indicators include: alarm frequency, instantaneous alarms, standing alarms, etc.

Understand whether the distribution of alarm settings in the system is appropriate, such as: distribution of alarm priority level settings, distribution of alarm category settings, etc., and whether there are issues with impracticality or redundancy.

Analyze the number and frequency of changes made by monitoring personnel to various alarm settings.

For alarm points with high modification frequencies, this helps investigate the underlying causes that lead operators to make frequent changes, aiming to reduce unnecessary operational modifications such as: alarm priority level changes and manual/automatic control mode switches.

Value Creation

Through integrating alarm sources and managing alarm standards, the frequency of nuisance alarms has been successfully reduced, improving operator response efficiency. Automated alarm trend analysis enables managers to more quickly identify abnormal trends in processes, while the centralized alarm management ensures unified control of alarm sources and priority levels.

This has made the factory's production process more stable and efficient. Beyond delivering excellent operational benefits to the factory, it also helps ensure production safety and efficiency within the overall framework of process safety management.

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