ProcessVue Alarm Management Suite:
- Culmination of over 20 years’ experience and expertise in managing alarms.
- Increase operational efficiency using advanced alarm rationalisation tools.
- Increased effectiveness during critical incidents and peak loading.
- EEMUA 191 and ISA 18.2 KPI reporting.
- Operational intelligence for the control room - KPI’s for the board room.
- Connect all your control assets and get a plant-wide view of alarm performance.
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ProcessVue SOE (Sequence of Events):
- Powerful Alarm Historian with web-based clients.
- Frequency analysis with distribution drill-down.
- Export data in Excel, CSV, RTF and PDF at the click of a button.
- Plant, Area and Unit Segregation using extensive alarm & event routing.
- Recognise important alarm / events and configure actions in real-time.
- CFR21.11 Data integrity using digital signatures.
- Powerful & flexible parsing engine to normalise data across disparate systems.
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ProcessVue Analyser:
- Customised dashboards show alarm performance over the last 24 hr, 7 days, 30 days and 6 months.
- Advanced reporting engine to EEMUA 191 and ISA 18.2 or customised reporting to in-house targets.
- Identify bad actors in seconds.
- Time in alarm recommendation engine identifies easy wins for rationalisation projects.
- Active, stale and shelved alarm counts assist shift handover.
- Generate and distribute reports according to your requirements and schedule with built in reporting engine.
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ProcessVue Guardian:
- Powerful Master Alarm Database.
- Comprehensive Management of Change functionality.
- Follows current alarm management standards and guidelines.
- Tailored to fit your site’s alarm philosophy requirements.
- Configurable consequence, operator response tables and priority matrices.
- Alarm response manual functionality.
- Control system independent.
- Comprehensive template management.
- Supports Multiple Teams and Projects via Web-based client.
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ProcessVue Alarm Notification System Support:
- Immediate and targeted notification to the relevant recipients.
- Set up teams and priorities according to your needs.
- Short messages (SMS) to alert operators working offsite via mobile phone or pager.
- Email the alarms detected and their context.
- Smartphone notifications using Android and IOs based devices.
- Supported Systems: Alert, Win911 and Videc AIP.
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Alarm Management Services:
- Benchmark Assessments.
- Alarm Philosophy Document Generation.
- Alarm Rationalisation Project Management/Delivery.
- Nuisance Alarm Remediation.
- Advanced Alarm Handling.
Installation Services:
- Connectivity to all alarm data sources.
- Parsing of all alarm data.
- System testing.
- Operator training.
- System handover.
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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 became the de facto guideline to which industry looked for guidance and good practise on alarm management and alarm management systems. Today, we have a set of standards such as IEC 62682 and in the UK - BS 62682.
To establish a system based on these standards and guidelines or merely ascertain if a current system is working effectively and within the KPI’s set out in these regulatory documents, alarm data must be continuously collected and analysed. With many disparate sources of alarm data from multiple control system vendors, just collecting data can be a challenge in itself.
The ProcessVue Suite of software has been developed with the benefit of over 40 years’ experience in 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 Sequence of Event display, high level Key Performance Indicator reporting and analysis and Master Alarm Database (MADb) for rationalisation and documentation.
- Measure and reduce operator workload.
- Highlight problematic equipment.
- Aid Incident Investigation.
- Consolidates alarm and event data.
- Benchmark alarm performance against global standards.
- Concentrate Maintenance on bad actors.
- Web Based clients means easy roll-out and reduced maintenance costs.
- VM support reduces hardware footprint and saves money.
- Analyse and compare plants.
- Increase plant performance and reliability.
- Low cost adoption and maintenance.
- Reduce downtime and increase profits.
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Founded in 1996, MAC Solutions specialise in helping customers select and source appropriate systems to leverage their plant control and automation systems. Our solutions collect data securely from these systems and provide analytical and visualisation tools for production, maintenance and business planning.
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