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TiPS Newsletter - September 2006

New White Paper:
A Practical Approach to Alarm Management, Part 1
Crawling Your Way Into Alarm Management

Alarm management and rationalization of alarms is not complex. It requires no proprietary algorithms or special education. It is structured application of basic operations skills. The reason alarms have become a problem is because we never stopped to ask, "Why?" Why do we need to add this alarm? Why here? Why set this way? Why don't you react to this alarm? Why is it so active? Why does it stay on for two days? Why do we need so many alarms in the configuration? Is there a shortcoming or problem somewhere else creating the need for this alarm? (hint, hint).

Read the entire white paper (2.1MB PDF)

New Case Study:
Alarm Reduction Success at NRG Energy®

NRG Energy's vision is to be the leading nonutility power generation company in the world through continuous enhancement of operational and technical capabilities. NRGŪ's Limestone generation facility in Jewett, Texas, contributes to that vision through a proactive and very successful alarm management program.

Read the entire case study (58k PDF)

LogMate Alarm Management Software Update

New report delivery option!

LogMate TiPSView (including netView, ACE, TRAC, and SSRS) has been updated to version 3.01.

This update adds a new report delivery option. LogMate has the ability to automatically generate and email any LogMate report on a pre-set schedule. In LogMate TiPSView 3.01, report emails can contain an attached report or a link to the report. With a linked report, recipients can simply click on a link to open it in a new browser window. The new link option was added to accommodate certain network security policies.

Apply for the update here