Services

Alarm Management and Escalation

Our experience to optimize the availability of your plants

False or unimportant alarms, as well as alarms that are routinely acknowledged or even ignored out of habit, represent a high risk in practice. A detailed alarm management system can help here. Together with our customers, we create plans to analyze and prioritize the alarms. The result: false alarms and bursts of alarms are reduced, response time to critical situations is improved and safety is increased.

Our Services

  • Message analysis to reduce alarms and avoid bursts of alarms, including creation of “hit lists”
  • Increase of alarm quality: identification of false or old alarms
  • Analysis of control loops, alarm limits and parameters to avoid alarms due to parameters that are incorrect or too tightly set
  • Forwarding of high-priority alarms
  • Display of additional information and instructions for action to eliminate alarms

Sucess Factors

  • Increase of plant safety and plant availability
  • Increase of operator effectiveness in responding to alarms
  • Relief of operator workload and focus response on important alarms
  • Minimization of risks to safety, health and the environment