Why We Need Effective Alarm Management

1. SAROM GLOBAL Why We Need Effective Alarm Management?

2. Alarm management is essential for ensuring the smooth operation of industrial plants in order to make them safer and more reliable. Alarms, on the other hand, if poorly controlled, can jeopardise plant safety and have a detrimental influence on process industry performance and profitability. To maintain the smooth functioning of their operations and to satisfy industry standards, companies rely on the effective handling of process alarms. Introduction

3. Over time, systems have grown to include numerous control systems, as well as IoT, AI, and other technologies. All of this is increasing the frequency, complexity, and volume of alerts and events, which has the potential to create a dangerous environment in control rooms and remote operations centres. Why Do We Need Alarm Management? The goal of an alarm management programme is to mitigate, prevent, and minimise the consequences of unusual events. Processes and methods for recognising, recording/documenting, designing, monitoring, and maintaining triggered alarms from process automation systems, such as automated Safety Instrumented Systems, are included in alarm management.

4. Alarm Management Problems Nuisance Alarms Stale Alarms Operator Response Alarm Floods Frequent Alarms Suppressed/Disabled/Shelved Alarms Master Alarm Data/Variable Table

5. Signs of Poor Alarm Management • Suppressed or disabled alarms • No alarm despite the occurrence or possibility of any event • Poorly set alarms causing nuisance • Frequent alarm flooding causing confusion and mismanagement • Slow response due to missing alarms or alarm fatigue • No clear reason for alarm

6. Signs of Good Alarm Management • Recognizes and solves actual problems in a timely manner. • Identifies the appropriate data to allow an operator to act safely. • Increases the efficiency of the operator • It safeguards the plant's machinery and processes. • Losses and downtime are reduced. • Allows for a better understanding of the plant's status and operation. • Gather information and compare your system to others. • Perform documentation and rationalisation of alarms. • Implement an alarm audit and make sure that technology is in place. • Implement alarm management in real time. • Maintain and control your enhanced system.

7. It is the process of assessing one alarm at a time against the concepts and design of safety standards within the plant. The first step in rationalisation is to determine the appropriate alert level for the appropriate signal and response. The alarm is then prioritised based on the severity of the consequences and the time it takes to respond (at all not to be underestimated). Few "bad” alerts are frequently to blame for unusually high process alarm rates. Instrument problems, bad DCS/SCADA configuration, or poor process design all contribute to these warnings. Excessive alarms to operators provide an active impediment to their capacity to act successfully, as well as a culture of alarm acknowledgement without action. Alarm Rationalisation. What Is It?

8. Performance Metrics for Alarm Management Alarms per day Alarms per 10 minutes Alarm flood analysis Most frequent alarms Chattering alarms Alarm Priority Distribution Stale Alarms

9. Benchmarks for Proper Alarm Management • Less than one alarm per 10 minutes: very likely to be acceptable • One alarm per 5 minutes: Manageable • One alarm per 2 minutes: Likely to be very demanding • More than one alarm per minute: Very likely to be unacceptable Process safety analysis is given a lot of attention these days, but alarm management must also be part of the overall plan to operate safely, and should be benchmarked. They are as follows:

10. Guidelines For Alarm Improvements • Identify and rectify misconfigured alarms • Create proper alarm settings • Ensure consistency in alarm settings • Eliminate duplicate & nuisance alarms • Ensure meaningful alarm priorities • Document alarm information for operators • Create master alarm database • Adjust alarm dead band settings Many alarm management companies like SAROM GLOBAL will evaluate every alarm configured on the system on a regular basis, looking for areas where improvements may be made.

11. Why Choose SAROM GLOBAL SAROM GLOBAL provides comprehensive alarm management solutions to help overcome the challenges of alarm mismanagement. With a comprehensive alarm management solution to store and track alarm data, perform root cause analysis of events, and a master database providing a comprehensive mechanism for management of change. Our experts review and assess the performance of the alarm system to make necessary changes or rationalize the alarm system throughout the lifecycle.

12. Configurable data to multiple sites and plants Use existing data infrastructure Data reporting to determine top alarms, priority distribution, alarm rates, etc. Alignment to the alarm management standard Correlate operator logs, notifications, analytic results & alarms into one searchable log Chronological log of plant events with correlation to process data Full search features Alarm grouping Post event and ad-hoc analysis Trend process data against associated alarms Fast and easy rollout without requiring client-side deployment Integrate documents SOP’s What SAROM GLOBAL’s Alarm Management Service Covers?

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