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A properly managed alarm system has become an integral and critical part of any production and process facility. EEMUA 191 since it was first published in 1999 has become the de facto global standard to which industry looks for guidance and good practise for alarm management systems. 

To establish a system based on the EEMUA 191 guidelines or merely ascertain if a current system is working effectively and within the guidelines alarm data must be continuously collected and analysed. With the many disparate sources of alarm data from multiple control system vendors, just collecting data can be a challenge in itself. Bringing this data into a usable form for the Control Room Operator and reporting for Alarm Managers are two distinct but equally important functions. 

The ProcessVue Suite of software has been developed with the benefit of over 20 years experience with alarm management systems. The architecture has been designed to allow interfacing with virtually any control system, bringing all data into a standard configurable format, for simple Operator Sequence of Event (SOE) display and high level Key Performance Indicators (KPI) reporting and analysis.

Where simple Printer Replacement is required we offer ProcessVue SOE, which uses the same backend technology for data collection, parsing and archiving. ProcessVue SOE can be easily upgraded or integrated into the full system giving you immeadiate access to the stored data for advanced reporting and analysis.

Resources for guidelines and best practise can be found at:

http://www.eemua.co.uk/p_instrumentation.htm

The Engineering Equipment and Material Users Association based in the UK, produced and published the EMMUA 191 in 1999 and updated it in 2007. The guide is not a standard or regulation, but since it’s first publication, EEMUA 191 has become the globally accepted and leading guide to good practice for alarm management.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/chis6.pdf

The Health and Safety Executive is the UK national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness. They are an independent regulator and act in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces.

http://www.iec.ch/functionalsafety/explained

The International Electrotechnical Commission is a leading global organization that publishes consensus-based International Standards and manages conformity assessment systems for electric and electronic products, systems and services, collectively known as electrotechnology. IEC publications serve as a basis for national standardisation and as references when drafting international tenders and contracts.

http://www.asmconsortium.net/Pages/default.aspx

The Abnormal Situation Management consortium is a group of leading companies and universities invloved with process industries that have jointly invested in research and development to create knowledge, tools and products designed to prevent. detect and mitigate abnormal situations that affect process safety in the control operations environment.

http://www.isa.org/

In 2003 the ISA (International Society of Automation), assembled a working group to draft recommendations for practice or standards for PCS alarm systems. This work was underpinned by the recommendations of the EEMUA 191 and intended to provide clearer explanations for many of the practices within the EEMUA.. The ISA 18.2: Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries was published in 2009.

 

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