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ACE™ - Alarm Configuration Expert™

• Statistical analysis of alarm activity
• Alarm configuration analysis
• Alarm documentation and rationalization
• Real-time operator assistance tool

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Raise DCS alarm system performance to the next level with ACE. The industry-leading ACE Alarm Management Software provides the tools you need to ensure that your control alarm system contributes as much as possible to the performance and safety of your site.

Activity Analysis

ACE Alarm Management Software enables you to perform statistical analysis of plant alarm activity, allowing you to identify the primary sources of trouble and address them from the top down-quickly and accurately.

Configuration Analysis

In addition to alarm activity analysis, the software's advanced functionality enables you to analyze settings within the control system. This configuration analysis shows you statistically whether the settings configured within the control logic enhance or impede the ability to maintain a normal operating state.

Operator Assistance

Users can annotate the configuration data with additional information, such as "Time to Respond," "Corrective Action," and "Consequence," and recall that information in real time.

Alarm Rationalization

ACE also automates alarm rationalization; the process of determining the validity of alarm priorities. By comparing current control system settings with recommendations based on engineering variables, ACE can create a checklist of alarms with suspect priority levels. The variables used in the rationalization can be modified for any organization's impact and ranking methodology.

Superior Technology

All data processing and storage is handled on the server, generating faster, more efficient analysis results and drastically lowering administration costs. Alarm activity data is processed as it is collected, not in batch, ensuring that analysis results are current to the latest event.

Symptoms of an Alarm Problem

• Alarms occur that do not require operator action
• Minor upsets generate numerous alarms
• There are active alarms when nothing is wrong
• Some alarms remain active for prolonged periods
• Operators do not know how to respond to certain alarms

Features

• Exclusive browser interface, no additional client software
• Scalable from one to many databases of any size
• Configurable criteria allow you to target specific areas, priorities, etc.
• Point-and-click simplicity
• Robust, transactional database archive

Benefits

• Quickly determine what changes will have the most impact
• Compare activity before and after changes
• Available at any (authorized) desktop with a web browser
• Locate and analyze alarm floods
• Efficiently research plant upsets

Through a standard web browser, ACE can give you detailed insight into the alarm configurations of any major DCS or HMI. ACE embodies the best concepts in alarm management and brings them to your desktop.


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