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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 thousands of nuisance, redundant and confusing messages. This constant overload of information, especially during plant upsets, significantly reduces plant safety and has led to many significant and costly plant incidents*. AlarmAnalyst® provides advanced tools to manage alarm conditions in your plant. Easy to use displays go far beyond "snap shot" reports and allows personal to interactively analyze, benchmark and rationalize alarms, operator actions and system events. Event notification including text to speech via 2-way radio and operator "Quick Alerts" provide aditional capabilities for process monitoring and enhancing your plant's alarm systems. The advanced graphics engine allows users to experience unsurpassed performance and capabilities; graphically drill into details to 1 milli-second with the drag of a mouse, see process trends fully integrated with alarms across multiple control systems and document alarm settings, procedures and rationalization status with a button click. Detailed compliancy reports following EEMUA 191 and ISA 18.02 alarm standards are instantly generated based on any user criteria. These fully integrated industry standards makes managing and monitoring your plant's alarms a breeze. Since 2002, continuous improvement of AlarmAnalyst has been driven by the suggestions and insights of some the worlds leading companies in the areas of Oil and Gas, Metals, Mining, Power Generation and Chemical Production. This collaborative effort has resulted in a system with unparalleled ease of use and capability. If you need to improve alarm management and process monitoring in your plant, AlarmAnalyst® will provide you with the most cost effective and proven tools available. Technology Overview ... Latest release information ...
			Technical Capabilities Integrated Alarm Documentation allows point and click call-up and editing of alarm settings, causes and procedures Concurrent on-line interface to DCS/PLC systems by ABB, Honeywell, Rockwell, Emerson, Invensys, Yokogawa and plant historians including OSI-PI, Canary Labs and OPC-HDA servers. All data is fully integrated into a single display - there is no "page flipping" to go from system to system 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) Easy installation. Clients are completely portable and allows for simple drag-drop installtion on any Windows platform Real-time Graphical Integration of alarms and events including operator actions, continuous data and operator entered "notes". Historical Archiving Provides years of data on-line Export: High Resolution vector graphics, MS Word(*.doc) format and delimited text. Populates SQL Servers, OSI-PI and other corporate database systems. High performance graphics allows point and click visualization of thousands of alarms, events, operator actions and system messages. Time handling: 1 milli-second data storage and graphical resolution. Screen Updates: Up to once per second. Automatic and manual Report Generation. Reports can be sent to pre-configured email groups. Installation: Clients and servers can be all deployed on a medium powered single PC or distributed using existing corporate networks and standards. There is no hardware to purchase and all software is designed from the ground up for easy deployment on any Windows platform. There are no on-going support agrements required to use the software. Advanced user scripting ensures that any system can be integrated. General interfaces include OPC, 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, 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, SMS 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. Web Server requires Microsoft IIS 4 or better.
			User Features: Alarm Management and Process Monitoring Embedded EEMUA 191 and ISA 18.02 Standards : Provides instant benchmarking of your plant. User Configurable Views: Provide highly detailed searches that can be re-called with a button click Fully Integrated Process Trends: Alarm and event data is graphically integrated with continuous data from process historians allowing users to see the process reaction to alarms, events, operator actions. Highly Interactive Graphical 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, causes and operator actions Metrics Report: A single button click generates all key EEMUA 191 and ISA 18.02 metrics needed for compliance Password Protected operator environment. 21CFR Part11 compatible. Point and Click: Mouse functions include pan, zoom, "rubber band" selection and searching. "Hover over" information call outs and tool tips through out Interactive Event Viewer: updates text listings whenever charts are panned and zommed. Automatic and manual report generation, export all charts as hi-resolution vector graphics, export to MS Word (.doc) or Excel and send to email groups. 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 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.