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Alarm management has a lot of history in the chemical industries for a reason: as early adopters of the DCS eager to fully leverage this new technology, chemical producers were some of the first to confront overactive alarm systems. As a result, leaders within the chemicals industries have paved the way for alarm management best practices. Does this sound like you? Do you have an overabundance of alarms? How did the problem get out of hand? One operational incident can lose the value of a year's worth of advanced control gains. You may have just installed your latest column flotation cells. Recovery is skyrocketing. Yields are higher than last year. The new cells look to be paying themselves off in three months. Unfortunately, an alarm flood shut the entire plant down for over 24 hours. An operator missed the fact that the first stage roughers were sanding. Plugged cyclones did you in. You lost over $200,000 in production downtime. Frowns fill the room at the next operations meeting. You are not alone. And you can turn things around. Let us introduce you to the world of alarm management. If you're not doing something about your alarm situation, you are truly behind your peers. Most operating companies are currently either in the staging process or are already deep into activities that are going to save their operations hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost production and worker productivity. Let us help. We start simply, by beginning to inventory your alarm problem. The information is captured into a database that will help you to be able to identify problems and possible corrective actions before doing more serious analysis. This part of the process is incredibly inexpensive. LogMate is used at over 1000 sites worldwide. It is field-proven, secure, and reliable. When you arre ready, we'll get you to the next stage. Our ACE package allows you to quantify just how bad your problem is, and begin to reduce the most problematic nuisance alarms. When you start to understand the problem, you'll want to make use of the Alarm KB to start documenting changes to the alarm system, using it as a Management of Change (MOC) platform to help you to sustain the benefits of a more balanced alarm design. We can also help you to bring this information in to our TRAC
performance dashboard that helps you to track ongoing alarm rates
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