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The Alarm Manager application addresses the critical need for effective alarm management in industrial processes. With the aim of improving operational safety, reducing equipment failures, and enhancing overall plant performance, the Alarm Manager application provides a comprehensive solution for organisations facing challenges in alarm handling and compliance with industry standards.
Alarm Manager is a part of the MPA suite of applications. Learn more about MPA.
Improve operational safety, reduce downtime & enhance plant performance
Alarm Reporting and Tracking
Alarm Manager allows organisations to report alarms according to the ISA 18.2 recommendations, ensuring standardisation and consistency in alarm handling practices.
Integration with Existing Control Systems
Alarm Manager seamlessly integrates with various control systems commonly used in industrial processes, ensuring compatibility and smooth implementation without major disruptions.
Master Alarm Database Management
The application introduces a central repository for all alarm-related information, enabling organisations to efficiently track and manage alarms throughout their lifecycle.
Team Collaboration
The Alarm Manager application allows teams to collaborate through annotations and comments
Alarm Analytics and Reporting
Alarm Manager provides advanced alarm analysis and reporting capabilities, empowering teams to identify patterns, trends, and recurring issues for continuous improvement.
Simplify your Alarm Management
Enhanced operational safety
The Alarm Manager application helps organisations prioritise and respond to alarms effectively, reducing the risk of critical safety or environmental incidents. By adhering to industry standards and best practices, it ensures that alarms are properly managed and operators can take appropriate actions in a timely and controlled manner.
Minimise unplanned downtime
As operators gain more situational awareness through reduced alarm noise, the risk of missing critical alarms is reduced and teams can identify and rectify potential equipment or process issues, minimising downtime and improving overall plant reliability.
Improved compliance
The Alarm Manager application aligns with the ISA 18.2 standard, providing organisations with a framework to meet regulatory requirements and industry guidelines for alarm management. It helps organisations establish consistent alarm handling practices and reporting mechanisms, facilitating compliance audits and demonstrating adherence to industry standards. The application ensures sustained compliance through continuous monitoring and reporting, preventing alarm systems from drifting back to a non-compliant state.
Streamlined alarm rationalisation
The application offers a centralised repository for alarm information. The master alarm information allows teams to collaborate on the prioritisation of alarm rationalisation to reduce alarm floods, stale and disabled alarms. Operational and situational awareness is improved as teams rationalise alarms. In addition, with the application’s alarm lifecycle management capabilities, organisations can address alarm-related issues proactively.
Advanced alarm analysis
By leveraging the data captured from alarms, the Alarm Manager application allows organisations to perform in-depth analysis and gain insights into alarm performance. This analysis helps identify alarm patterns, recurring issues, and opportunities for process optimisation, enabling organisations to proactively address underlying causes and drive continuous improvement.
Integration with existing systems
The Alarm Manager application seamlessly integrates with your existing control system and alarm database. This integration ensures compatibility with the organisation’s existing infrastructure, enabling a smooth implementation and minimising disruption to operations.
Increased collaboration and communication
The Alarm Manager application promotes collaboration among plant personnel by providing a standardised platform for alarm handling. It facilitates communication between operators, engineers, and management, enabling effective coordination and decision-making to address alarms promptly and efficiently.
Improved decision-making
With its comprehensive reporting and analytics capabilities, the Alarm Manager application empowers organisations to make informed decisions based on real-time alarm data. The availability of accurate and up-to-date information enables management to identify areas for improvement, allocate resources effectively, and drive operational excellence.
FAQs
Alarm Manager leverages your existing control system alarm information, meaning the data is kept at its source. We will establish a new master alarm database which can be stored locally to the MPA server or in an existing SQL Server.
The Alarm Manager application, part of the MPA suite of applications, offers a comprehensive solution for effective alarm management in industrial processes. It includes the following key features and functionalities:
Alarm Reporting and Tracking: Alarm Manager allows organisations to report alarms according to the ISA 18.2 recommendations, ensuring standardisation and consistency in alarm handling practices.
Master Alarm Database Management: The application introduces a central repository for all alarm-related information, enabling organisations to efficiently track and manage alarms throughout their lifecycle.
Alarm Analytics and Reporting: Alarm Manager provides advanced alarm analysis and reporting capabilities, empowering organisations to identify patterns, trends, and recurring issues for continuous improvement.
Integration with Existing Control Systems: Alarm Manager seamlessly integrates with various control systems commonly used in industrial processes, ensuring compatibility and smooth implementation without major disruptions.
We understand that different customers have different support needs, which is why we offer two levels of support. Our standard support package is designed for customers who need basic support, while our premium support package is ideal for customers with more complex needs or customised solutions.
Standard support provides access to our knowledgeable support team for assistance with any software-related issues you may encounter. Standard support covers typical software application issues such as bugs and incidents. Standard support will be available during normal Brisbane business hours.
Premium support offers access to expertise for complex issues that may require specialised knowledge supporting application or infrastructure problems. Premium support can be tailored to the size and complexity of the installed system and the desired response timeframes. Premium support also provides access to application specialists for minor additions or improvements.
Our solutions can be implemented in as little as two weeks.
The implementation timeframe of our solutions can vary depending on several factors such as whether there is existing infrastructure in place and if you require any site specific reports.
If an out the box Alarm Management application is required, such as connecting to an existing historical alarm database, and setup of a Master Alarm Database, the implementation can take anywhere from 2-4 weeks once the base system is set up. Our solutions can be implemented within this time frame, but it’s important to note that the exact duration will depend on the specific requirements of each project.
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