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		A properly designed alarm system should alert, inform and guide plant operators*. However, in many facilities alarm systems do exactly the opposite; they swamp operators with hundreds of nuisance, redundant and confusing messages. This overload of information, especially during plant upsets, significantly reduces plant safety and has led to many costly plant incidents*. AlarmAnalyst® provides unsurpassed capabilities in the area of alarm management and process monitoring. The high performance graphics engine "trends" thousands of alarms, operator actions and system messages enabling users to quickly understand and benchmark conditions effecting plant performance and safety. Alarm bursts, rates, worst offenders, nuisance conditions and standing times are instantly evaluated against best practices such as EEMUA-191 and ISA 18.2 alarm standards. This data is further integrated with process trends, alarm documention and work tracking databases. Event notification including e-mail and translation to speech over 2-way radio provides advanced capabilities for improving your plant's alarm systems and safety. Detailed compliancy reports following EEMUA 191 and ISA 18.2 alarm standards are generated with a button click spanning any time period or search criteria. The fully integrated industry standards instantly identifies what areas need attention and makes it easy to report on the improvements made. For 10 years AlarmAnalyst® has been continuously enhanced based on the feedback of some of the worlds largest companies operating in Oil and Gas, Metals, Mining, Power Generation and Chemical industries. This collaborative effort has resulted in a system unparalleled in ease of use and simplicity. If improved alarm management and safety is part of your part of your company's goals, AlarmAnalyst® will provide you with the most cost effective and proven solution available. Screen shots ... Latest release information ... Technology Overview ...
			General Capabilities Concurrent interface to DCS/PLC systems by ABB, Honeywell, Rockwell, Emerson, Invensys, Yokogawa and GE. Continuous data interface to OSI-PI, Canary Labs and OPC-HDA servers. All data is fully integrated into a unified display - there is no "page flipping" to go from system to system. Integrated Alarm Documentation and Work tracking provides instant call-up and editing from all charts and displays. Interactive Searching and Filtering from all charts, over any time range, for any data, in any sequential order! High performance multi-threaded server streams in excess of 1 million events records per second over standard 100mb ethernet networks.(Benchmarked on P4, single core @2.4Ghz, XP, 500Mb ram) High performance graphics engine provides interactive visualizations of alarm burst rates, distributions, nusiance alarms, standing durations, operator actions and system messages with 1 milli-second resolution. Web Report Server provides interactive browser based reports Historical Archiving Provides years of data on-line Easy installation. The software has no dependencies allowing for simple drag-drop deployment on all Windows platforms. Runs on any existing plant hardware. Export: High Resolution vector graphics, MS Word(*.doc) format and delimited text. Populates SQL Servers, OSI-PI and other corporate database systems. Screen Refresh: Up to once per second. Automatic EEMUA 191 & ISA 18.2 Report Generation. Reports can be sent to pre-configured email groups. Hardware Requirements: Clients and servers can be deployed on a single PC or distributed using your corporate networks and standards. There is no hardware to purchase. There are no on-going support agrements required to use the software. Advanced textual scripting ensures that any control system can be integrated. General interfaces include OPC: DA, A&E and HDA, SQL, ODBC, FTP, RS232, "Virtual" Print Servers, Parallel Ports, any Binary or Text files. Integration of continuous data via Plant Historians including OSI-PI, Canary Labs, OPC-HDA Servers and flat data files Integrates Windows Event Logs and other proprietary event systems. Extended Capabilities: Real-time interface applications such as EventServer initiate actions on any incoming events including sending e-mail and initiating speech over phone and 2-way radio systems. Web Edition: Client accesses from any HTML browser running under UNIX, LINUX, and Windows operating systems.
			User Features: Alarm Management and Process Monitoring Data Logging: Years of plant data is maintained on-line. Embedded EEMUA 191 and ISA 18.02 Standards : Provides real-time benchmarking of your plant. User Views: Provide advanced searching that can be re-called with a button click Process Trending: Alarm and event data is combined with continuous data from process historians and trended allowing users to see the process reaction to alarms, events, operator actions. Graphical Displays: On-line displays includes Sequence of Events, Process Trends, Pattern Analysis, Standing Time, Burst Rates, Alarm and Event Distributions, Pareto , Hourly Rates, Time lines, Severity Analysis, Best fit, Top 10, Total time in alarm. Operator Entered Notes: allows users to document changes, equipment problems and enter other plant information. Notes are visually integrated into all displays and reports Integrated Alarm Documentation allows point and click call-up and editing of alarm settings, work tracking, causes and operator actions Reporting: Automatic and manually generated reports provides all key EEMUA 191 and ISA 18.02 metrics, export all charts as hi-resolution vector graphics, export to MS Word (.doc) or Excel and send to email groups. Password Protected operator environment. 21CFR Part11 compatible. Interactivity: Mouse functions include pan, zoom, "rubber band" selection and searching. "Hover over" information call outs and tool tips through out Textual Event Viewer: Tracks all displays as they are panned and zommed. Virtually no maintenance or configuration required. Benefits Establishes a base line with quantified goals for plant improvement. Exposes problems with equipment and procedures that otherwise go undetected. Replaces printers, shortens start-ups, change-overs and problem investigations. Drives maintenance and operations with quantified information on what needs attention. Identifies emerging problems and lets users "see through the noise" during alarm bursts and plant upsets. Drastically reduces the time and effort of dealing with alarms, operator actions and other textual events. Identifies redundant and nuisance alarms, operator swamping and other alarm system problems that reduce operator efficency. Manages years of data on-line. Provides pro-active real-time plant monitoring that ensures operations are being run safely and efficiently.
		Acknowledging alarms is just not good enough! Contact us to see how AlarmAnalyst can benefit your facility. Request AlarmAnalyst Brochure (pdf format) Request AlarmAnalyst Quick Start Videos Alarm Management on www.AlarmAnalyst.com ... * EEMUA 191 Alarm Guide, ISA 18.02 Alarm Standard AlarmAnalyst is a registered Trademark of Machine Automation Inc.