Alarm Management 08
Alarm Management 08 : The Need for Alarm Management: Alarm management is usually necessary in a process manufacturing environment that is controlled by an operator using a control system, such as a DCS or a programmable logic controller (PLC) . Such a system may have hundreds of individual alarms that up until very recently have probably been designed with only limited consideration of other alarms in the system. Since humans can only do one thing at a time and can pay attention to a limited number of things at a time, there needs to be a way to ensure that alarms are presented at a rate that can be assimilated by a human operator, particularly when the plant is upset or in an unusual condition. Alarms also need to be capable of directing the operator's attention to the most important problem that he or she needs to act upon, using a priority to indicate degree of importance or rank, for instance
No records Found