We have produced a series of white papers to help you understand alarm management and the benefits it can bring to your business.


Alarm Intelligence
A New Generation of Alarm Management
How Data-Driven Alarm Management Helps UK Water Companies Meet the Demands of a New Regulatory Era.
The Knowledge Continuity Crisis
in Industrial Operations
Enhancing Water Industry Operations Through
Strategic Alarm Management
Alarm Management has the potential to play a central role in a continuous improvement philosophy that drives efficiency and profitability, re-framing the way we think about industrial alarm systems.
Alarm Enforcement is the process of comparing Process Control System (PCS) alarm attributes with the authorized list of alarm attributes held within a site’s Master Alarm Database (MADb)
A Master Alarm Database (MADb) is one of the fundamental building blocks required to underpin the success of any alarm improvement initiative.
Alarm system performance KPI’s have been around since the release of EEMUA 191.The Bransby & Jenkinson survey performed in 1998 concluded that one alarm per ten minutes was considered very likely to be acceptable.
Effective Alarm Management
This white paper will give you some hints, some obvious and some less obvious, on how you ensure your rationalization project runs as smoothly in industrial premises. The focus is on streamlining alarm management processes and ensuring the most effective use of your resources.
IEC 62682 introduced the word ‘timely’ in the definition of an alarm. This paper discusses what this means, how timeliness can be measured and how alarm systems can be improved to meet this criterium.
Minimizing alarm proliferation
This white paper considers how to minimize alarm proliferation during upgrades or installation of new alarm systems. The focus is on avoiding situations in which operators are inundated with unnecessary and potentially disruptive nuisance alarms.
