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TiPS Newsletter - January 2007
Smarter Investment in Alarm Management
We talk to quite a few people who are getting into their second
round of alarm management. Unfortunately, "Round Two"
is too much like Round One - the alarms that were supposedly fixed
have found a way to become problems again.
However frustrating, this situation plays out again and again, wasting
time and money and harming the reputation of "alarm management"
in the process. The reason is because a Round Two was never expected
to be necessary at all.
Many people are drawn to the possibility of corrected alarm settings
as the magic bullet for alarm problems. The expectation is to take
bad settings, send them to reform school, and when they come back,
all is well with plant alarms.
A correctly configured alarm system will still perform poorly if
housekeeping issues are not addressed, such as bad sensor data or
backlogged maintenance.
A correctly configured alarm system will degrade over time if other,
important operating information is not available via a resource
more effective than alarms.
Smarter investment in alarm management - that saves time and money
- is within reach to those who understand the external factors that
impact alarm behavior and design. To avoid a round one that leads
nowhere, make sure the project team understands the field conditions
that can impact alarms AND the information needs that must be satisfied
but are not appropriate for the alarm system.
The fight against poor alarm performance is never over, but it does
get much easier over time. Don't spend time and money correctly
designing an alarm system without putting a program in place to
manage the fringe issues that affect performance over time.
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April 17-19, 2007
Marriott Convention Center
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The 2007 TiPS User Conference is coming to Austin, TX on April 17-19,
2007.
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