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News and AnnouncementsBrowse our latest news releases and product announcements. Keep in tune with TiPS! Contact Sales with any questions about our products or services. TiPS Inc. Presents - Ian Nimmo "High Performance HMI Design" TiPS recently sponsored Ian Nimmo's online presentation on High Performance HMI Design in celebration of his recent book release "High Performance HMI Handbook - The First Ever Comprehensive Guide". This one-hour presentation serves as an introduction to Ian's HMI philosophy and is a great overview of the deeper topics covered in his book. If you'd like information on how to view this presentation, please fill out the following request form: HMI Presentation Request Page TiPS and Telvent Announce Alarm Management Partnership Telvent has partnered with TiPS to create Telvent Alarm Manager - Powered by Logmate™. This partnership enables Pipeline SCADA users to be prepared for the Pipeline Inspection, Protection, Enforcement and Safety Act of 2006. While focused primarily on the OASyS DNA system, Telvent Alarm Manager - Powered by Logmate™ can be interfaced with all Telvent SCADA systems. Read the entire release Improve the Speed and Quality of Batch Certification and Review Using TiPS LogMate® Batch ID Event Mapping Batch processing is very prevalent in the life sciences industries. If an upset occurs during a batch, that batch must be meticulously reviewed to determine if the product is still safe for use or delivery. Read the entire release New Utility from TiPS™ Helps Defend Against Harmful Alarm System Changes Protect yourself from the criticism, expense, and damage caused by an alarm that should have been turned on but wasn't, or that was effectively disabled when the settings were adjusted during a start up and never reset. Read the entire release Improve Reversal of Process Upsets by Giving Operators ESP: Electronically Stored Procedures During a process upset, operators rely on procedural guidance to help them. Unfortunately, most procedures are produced in paper format. TiPS offer the LogMate AlarmKB as a system for seamlessly merging paper and electronically stored procedures. Read the entire release TiPS Wins a 2008 Control Magazine Readers' Choice Award TiPS landed a third place finish with 8% of the readership vote, behind Rockwell Automation® and Emerson Process Management®. The third position was crowded, with four companies tied for the spot: TiPS, Siemens®, GE Fanuc®, and Invensys Wonderware®. Read the entire release TiPS Celebrates 20 Years of Alarm Management A lot has changed in 20 years, but TiPS is still going strong, leading the way in alarm management software. To see a little of our history, see our History page. Read the entire release TiPS Joins the Rockwell Automation Encompass™ Program with LogMate® TiPS today announced the acceptance of the LogMate® Alarm Management Software System into the Rockwell Automation Encompass Partner Program. LogMate AMS gives customers access to a rich suite of alarm management tools that easily integrates into the FactoryTalk® environment. Read the entire release TiPS and UReason® Partner for Better Operator Awareness TiPS and UReason have formed a partnership to more closely align their respective alarm management and operator advisory technologies to deliver better plant condition alerts and advisory information, which... Read the entire release LogMate is Now Compatible with Internet Explorer® 7 After exhaustive testing, LogMate is confirmed compatible with the latest version of Microsoft's web browser, Internet Explorer 7. Upgrade today or contact TiPS Sales for more information. Meet the Who's Who of Alarm Management at the TiPS User Conference The TiPS User Conference, April 17-19, 2007 in Austin, TX, will host an alarm management panel seated by the current "who's who" in alarm management. Founding members of the ASM Consortium®; contributing authors of the EEMUA® 191 guideline; people who have been involved with assessment and analysis of the world's most notorious incidents and who remain on the leading edge of alarm and upset management. Read the entire press release or contact TiPS Sales for more information. Root Cause Analysis Made Easier Through First Out Alarm Report With the addition of the First Out Report to the LogMate Alarm Management System, TiPS has given operators and engineers a forensic tool that can immediately identify the likely "first out" alarm that marked the beginning of an upset. Read the entire press release or contact TiPS Sales for more information. TiPS and ExperTune Announce Cooperative User Conference April 17-19 Austin, TX TiPS and ExperTune are assembling some of the best resources in alarm management and loop performance optimization in Austin, TX this April. Plant managers, operations supervisors, and manufacturing executives interested in learning more about optimization of regulatory control and getting the most out of your operating team should attend. Read the entire press release or contact TiPS Sales for more information. New Case Study/Success Story: NRG Energy® NRG's Limestone generation facility in Jewett, Texas, employs a proactive and very successful alarm management program. Read about how LogMate contributes to their success. Read the NRG Case Study TiPS Releases Update for the LogMate® AMS™ Alarm Management System™ Web Browser Module TiPS Incorporated is pleased to announce the release of several updates to the LogMate AMS Alarm Management System web browser module, TiPSView®. TiPSView version 3.0 enhances LogMate's utility as an operator information resource and as an engineering companion for alarm design and management of change. TiPSView 3.0 is a seamless upgrade to existing web-enabled LogMate installations and is shipped at no cost to current support subscribers Read the entire press release or contact TiPS Sales for more information. Apply for the update here Lyondell Chemical Company Selects LogMate AMS for Alarm Management Lyondell Chemical Company has executed a company-wide agreement to license TiPS LogMate® AMS™ alarm management software. Read the entire press release or contact TiPS Sales for more information. Invensys® and TiPS™ Announce Global Alarm Management Solutions Partnership Invensys will use the TiPS LogMate® AMS™ alarm management software system as one of the technology foundations for the company's Alarm Management Monitor™, part of a suite of services designed to help customers optimize overall asset performance by aligning plant operations and maintenance with the organization's business goals. Invensys selected LogMate based on excellent technical quality and product support. Invensys Alarm Management Monitor services and LogMate AMS are available through standard Invensys sales channels. Readers can contact Invensys Process Systems (www.invensys.com/ps) or TiPS Sales for more information. Read the entire press release or contact TiPS Sales for more information. TiPS Establishes Corporate Blog Visit it here: tipstalk.tipsweb.com TiPS Makes CONTROL'S® Reader's Choice Awards In Control Magazine's annual survey, TiPS captured a position in the hotly contested alarm management software category and a 4.0 ranking in service quality. Thanks to our customers and friends for thinking of us so highly! Visit the awards site here. TiPS and Expertune form Partnership Expertune and TiPS will collaberatively share their relative expertise to introduce a new way for plants to assess the health and performance of their automation systems. Using combined loop and alarm performance data, plant management and organization executives will gain better insight into operating conditions and will be empowered to pinpoint opportunities for improvement. TiPS and D-RoTH form Partnership TiPS and D-RoTH have had a long standing relationship behind the scenes for years. We are now publicly announcing our joint business direction by joining forces to create a "one-stop-shop" for alarm management services and technology. D-RoTH is the consulting business success of Doug Rothenberg, a formative member of the Alarm Management Task Force and the ASM Consortium and a member of the team that designed the EEMUA 191 best practices guidelines. He provides state-of-the-art alarm management training and consulting services worldwide. D-RoTH can be found online at www.d-roth.com. alarmmanagement.com Visit alarmmanagement.com, for open discussion with other professionals interested in alarm management. Mirant selects LogMateAMS as their company-wide alarm management solution Following a successful pilot installation, Mirant has decided to implement LogMate AMS company-wide for archival, display, and advanced evaluation of plant alarm activity. MeadWestavco adds LogMateAMS to their RSView HMI as the alarm management tool component LogMateAMS integrates seamlessly with the RSView environment and connects directly to the RSView event historian. Within a few hours, MeadWestvaco was able to leverage the full benefits of alarm management technology. To learn more, see LogMateAMS Bayer Crop Sciences upgrades to LogMateAMS because it makes data widely available Bayer recognized that good alarm information would benefit all levels of the organization, including operations. Because LogMateAMS uses a web browser interface, real-time alarm information is available to company wide at any time. Operations uses LogMateAMS as a documentation and awareness tool. Management explores the alarm performance analysis tools to help reach organizational objectives in plant productivity and safety. To learn more, see LogMateAMS Rohm & Haas® implements LogMateAMS to remotely optimize DCS alarm configurations The LogMateAMS system enables Rohm & Haas® to remotely monitor and analyze alarm activity from a web browser, allowing a specialized team of engineers to optimize a DCS from hundreds of miles away. To learn more, see LogMateAMS Koch Cellulose® upgrades to TiPS' latest alarm management software package: LogMateAMS Koch® needed a system capable of handling long term archival, even with high event activity rates. The Microsoft SQL Server database used by LogMateAMS shows no performance degradation under heavy loads. The user experience is consistent, even during floods or when analyzing very large sets of data. To learn more, see LogMateAMS Abbott Laboratories® turns to TiPS' alarm system evaluation technology Abbott® will rely on TiPS' advanced software features to help tune their control system alarms. To learn more, see LogMateAMS ANOTHER DuPont® location chooses TiPS alarm management software TiPS welcomes ANOTHER DuPont® location to our list of clients. Thank you again! Mirant Corporation® updates their LogMate installation to the latest architecture Mirant® updated their installation to take advantage of the additional functionality, speed, and stability of LogMate's latest design, using a SQL Server database and Internet Explorer clients. You can too! For more information, see LogMateAMS. AMGEN® adopts TiPS' alarm activity analysis solution To further their efforts in alarm system optimization and assist in activity diagnosis, AMGEN® incorporated ACE - Alarm Configuration Expert into their alarm management process. Sterling Chemical® expands real-time alarm information access site-wide Enabling site-wide access to alarm information from all connected systems was a cinch for Sterling Chemicals®. Now all plant alarm information is available in any web browser (with authorization, of course) using TiPS netView software. Another DuPont® Location Chooses TiPS Alarm Management Software TiPS welcomes another DuPont® location to our list of clients. DuPont recently purchased our full suite of alarm management software, including LogMateAMS, netView, and ACE. |
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