Emerson Exchange 365

Everything you ever wanted to know about Alarm Management, but didnt have the Experts to ask...

The Q&A in this forum was conducted LIVE at 11:00am CDT on Monday, Oct 17th!  Kim Van Camp, who recently retired from Emerson, joined us for this exclusive event!  Read through the forum to meet our new batch expert, Kam Por Yuen; troubleshoot with community superstar, Matt Stoner; discuss best practices for alarm services with Milton Pollard; and gain an understanding of ISA standards from Todd Stauffer. 

Continue your learning with real-world examples from Kim Van Camp and Todd Stauffer by checking out following session which was filmed at this year's Emerson Exchange in Austin, TX, Seven Steps to a Peaceful Control Room: How to Implement an Effective Alarm Management Program for your DeltaV System:

https://youtu.be/1ZBADOfDbDs

Best Regards,

Rachelle McWright: Business Development Manager, Dynamic Simulation: U.S. Gulf Coast

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Rachelle McWright

• 29 Sep 2016 4:06 PM
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• Milton Pollard

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 3:49 PM

  Hello, this is Milton Pollard on line

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• Kim Van Camp

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 3:52 PM

  In reply to Milton Pollard:

  Kim here.

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• Matt Stoner

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 3:52 PM

  In reply to Milton Pollard:

  Hola, Matt is here as well

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• Kam Por Yuen

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 3:52 PM

  In reply to Milton Pollard:

  Hello, this is Kam Yuen, I am here as well.

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• Todd Stauffer

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 3:54 PM

  In reply to Matt Stoner:

  And Todd here as well. Looking forward to the discussion!

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• Jim Cahill

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 3:56 PM

  In reply to Kam Por Yuen:

  I'll start this off with a great question I saw... How can you separate alarms from alerts per ISA18.2 in the DeltaV system?

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• Kim Van Camp

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 3:57 PM

  In reply to Jim Cahill:

  In the DeltaV system there are twelve user assignable priority levels, 4-15, where 15 is highest. Use one or a few of the lower levels for alerts and use workstation settings to set the alarm banner priority threshold to exclude these alerts from the alarm banner. This also prevents the alerts from sounding the horn and appearing in the alarm list which is by default set to apply the alarm banner thresholds. Custom alert lists can be created to specify the alert priority levels.
  
  If the system is a V13.3 system, additional filters can be applied to create specialized alert lists based on alarm category and functional classification. So you can easily create alert lists for specific abnormal conditions such as active interlocks.

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• John Rezabek

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 4:00 PM

  Alarms suppressed in a flood suppression module appear to come back as "acknowledged" when the flood module logic is reset, or the conditions aren't "true" anymore. Is this by design? It seems to me that when I manually removed suppression / shelving, if the point is in alarm is behaves as if it is unacknowledged and makes the alarm sound.

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• Rachelle McWright

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 4:01 PM

  Hello to all of our experts and audience! Post your questions to this reply and use F5 to refresh your browser to watch out Q&A progress...

  Best Regards,

  Rachelle McWright: Business Development Manager, Dynamic Simulation: U.S. Gulf Coast

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• Kim Van Camp

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 4:04 PM

  In reply to John Rezabek:

  Yes, by product design an alarm that exits suppression is in an acknowledged state. Interested in your thoughts on this.

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• John Rezabek

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 4:06 PM

  Is there any reason one shouldn't use the DeltaV "flood" suppression modules for state-based suppression? We're in the midst of a month long turnaround and the operators would appreciate it if certain alarms stopped chattering . . .

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• Michael Moody

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 4:06 PM

  In reply to Rachelle McWright:

  Hello everyone. I would like to know the best practice for filtering alarm counts generated in DeltaV Analyze to only include the alarm priorities that are annunciated to the operators. The goal is to make sure maintenance alarms that are created to log the alarm, but auto acknowledged and not included in the operator alarm summary screen are not counted in the metrics.

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• GeloCortez

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 4:07 PM

  In reply to Rachelle McWright:

  Angelo here from the philippines, Emerson LBP. looking forward to gain more knowledge on Alarm Management (currently doing Alarm Management project for Shell philippines)

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• John Rezabek

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 4:07 PM

  In reply to Kim Van Camp:

  I think it is a good feature / preferred behavior. We don't need another "flood" when the suppression logic ceases to be true.

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• Matt Stoner

  

  • 17 Oct 2016 4:09 PM

  In reply to John Rezabek:

  John, no that could be used and probably work well to do the state based suppression but we have been working on a State-based suppression module. Are you going to Emerson Exchange next week? I could give you a quick demo and would like to get your thoughts.

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