Hello,
We are beginning an Alarm Management Project per ISA 18.2.
I need to determine the total number of configured alarms on the systems for a cost estimated from alarm consultant. We have alarms configured for AI, DI, and logical conditions alarms.
Any help on this question.
Thank you,
You could use System Alarm Management (SAM) to pick the alarms and then print to XML and then use that file to check the enables. I'm not sure when the print to XML option was added but it's in v12 and v13 and this is probably the best option to use.
If you are using v13 this is also very easy with Bulk Edit excercise as you can export all the alarms with the product supplied Module_Alarm.fmt (will export every alarm as a row regardless of the alarm name).
If you are using non-v13 it becomes a little more difficult with Bulk Edit as the format file needs to match every alarm in the system to be able to pull out the config:
In reply to chip.burge:
chip.burge said:Bulk edit will be your best friend here. If you are employing classes extensively this should be much easier, otherwise you may be at risk undercounting. I only mention this because you say you have "logical conditions" alarms which could be configured as a DI_SOFT or something similar and may have some customized alarms configured. You can build a format file that looks at all possible alarm names in the system and export things like alarm limits for analog values and whether or not the alarms are enabled (.ENAB). Any modules that don't have an alarm that matches your format file will return NULL in the csv that is generated which should help you identify which class each of your modules belong to e.g. a discrete input will not have a HI_HI_ALM. If that doesn't sound doable start with building a format file for each module class that you are interested in.
Thank you chip.burge.
I am new to Bulk Edit. How do you use this tool? We have class and non-class base modules.
I would like to extract all the alarms from the system and then filter what I need.
In reply to DCS Newbie: