Upon completion of the Advanced Alarm Analysis and Rationalization
Workshop, participants will have acquired knowledge related to:
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Analysis Techniques: Successfully eliminate
up to 75% of your alarms through bad actor and alarm flood
analysis to reveal true critical alarms.
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Alarm Management Assessment: Learn to
concretely benchmark alarm management performance and accurately
assess your alarm management situation.
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Optimize Alarms: Improve safety, meet production
demands and reduce trips.
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Rationalization / AOA: Learn effective procedures
and strategies to prioritize and configure alarm settings. Increase
daily tag analysis by 50%.
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Sustaining: Use your software investment to
institutionalize alarm management and sustain results after your
project is complete.
Advanced Alarm Analysis and Rationalization is held within a computer lab where each participant
is given dedicated use of a computer for the duration of the course. The course is
comprised of presentations, examples, demonstrations and hands-on exercises.
Participants are encouraged to discuss current alarm and event issues they face.
The course is divided into modules. Each module will build on the previous one so
that learning is done in an organized and structured format.
Module 1: Introduction - The Advanced Alarm Analysis and
Rationalization Workshop begins with a review of the execution of an Alarm
Management project, as well as a description of the days objectives.
Module 2: Alarm Management Assessment - This module teaches you
how to assess and measure the effectiveness of your site alarm management
activities. A review of the tools, practices, and benchmarks are presented to
help put a framework together for each participant to analyze and assess their
own site.
Module 3: Alarm Analysis - Benchmark and analyze your current
system to determine what alarms are giving you problems, which alarms can be
easily fixed and the areas of quick returns. You will develop and determine key
alarm performance metrics you can continuously rely on to give a constant
indication of the state of your alarm system. These metrics will be revisited
throughout the life cycle to ensure that your process is operating at an optimal
level with respect to alarming. You will:
- Understand alarm history collection considerations.
- Learn how to set up an alarm history system.
- Know how to analyze alarm history according to EEMUA standards.
- Learn how to benchmark your system to know your current state and which areas require attention in order to reach the goals decided in your philosophy.
- Know how to follow-up on the analysis.
Module 4: Rationalization and AOA meetings - Alarm Rationalization,
or Alarm Objectives Analysis, is a procedure where each alarm is examined to ensure
it conforms to the alarm philosophy. Participants will learn the full rationalization
process, which includes:
- Understand State-based alarming
- Understand Advanced alarming
- Understand Intelligent alarming
- Understand Alarm Shelving
- Understand Alarm Enforcement
Module 6: Ongoing Maintenance Techniques - Once your alarm system
has improved, it is vital to maintain it so as not to lose the results and the value
realized. This module will provide and review the best practices in industry for
simplifying monitoring and maintenance activities and leveraging your alarm management
infrastructure.