Alarm Management 01
Alarm Management 01 : Alarm management is the application of human factors (or ergonomics as the field is referred to outside the U. S). along with instrumentation engineering and systems thinking to manage the design of analarm system to increase its usability. Most often the major usability problem is that there are too many alarms annunciated in a plant upset, commonly referred to as alarm flood, since it is so similar to a flood caused by excessive rainfall input with a basically fixed drainage output capacity. However, there can also be other problems with an alarm system such as poorly designed alarms, improperly set alarm points, ineffective annunciation, unclear alarm messages, etc
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