Alarm Management in Process Control
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Alarm Management in Process Control Course
Introduction:
Currently, process plants face significant challenges that significantly affect their productivity, efficiency, product quality, safety, integrity, and security. A well design alarm management system can address these challenges whereas a poorly designed alarm management system can cause serious consequences and also become a nuisance to plant operators and other personnel. Plants personnel dealing with the above issues need to attend this course lo learn and apply best practices of alarm management using real-world examples and tools. Delegates will return to their jobs not only with a better understanding of alarm management best practices but equipped with a set of practical set of techniques, procedures, and tools to optimize their alarm management system to increase the productivity, efficiency, product quality, safety, integrity, and security of their processes.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this training course, you will learn to:
- Understand the fundamentals of Alarm Management and Alarm Philosophy
- Apply procedures for Alarm Rationalization
- Apply procedures for Alarm Design, Implementation, Operation and Maintenance
- Apply procedures for Alarm Performance Monitoring and Assessment
- Implement Alarm Management Procedures using hands-on tools
Who Should Attend?
This Alarm Management training course should be of interest to a wide range of professionals interested in learning and applying alarm management for improving the productivity, efficiency, product quality, safety, integrity, and security of their processes.
This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Automation, Chemical, and Process Engineers
- Installation and Maintenance Technicians
- Instrumentation and Control Engineers
- Process Operators
- Production and Project Managers
- Other Professionals who want a better understanding of the subject matter
Course Outlines:
Introduction to Alarm Management and a Review of P&ID and Process Control Safeguarding
- What is Alarm Management?
- Main standards for Alarm Management: ISA 18.2, EEMUA 191, IEC 62682
- Review of P & ID Diagrams
- Review of Process Control Systems, BPCS
- Review of Process Control Safeguarding
- Hazard Analysis
- Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)
- Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
- Safeguarding Examples
- Alarm Management as a layer of LOPA
- Benefits of Alarm Management
Alarm Issues, Alarm Principles, and Philosophy
- What is an Alarm?
- Alarm Issues
- Alarm Proliferation
- Nuisance Alarms
- Operator Overload
- Alarm Management Principles
- Alarm Management Philosophy
- Alarm Philosophy Document
- Alarm Management Lifecycle
- Alarm Identification
Alarm Rationalization
- Alarm Objective Analysis
- Documenting Operator Response Time
- Assigning Alarm Priorities
- Classifying Alarms
- Defining Alarm Attributes
- Assessing the Need of Advanced Alarming
- Procedures and Configuration Examples
Alarm Design, Implementation, Operation and Maintenance
- Basic Alarm Design
- Application of Alarm Deadband (hysteresis)
- Application of On / Off Delays
- Alarms and Interlocks
- SIS / ESD Alarms
- HMIs for Alarms
- Advanced Alarm Design: Dynamic Alarm Suppression
- Alarm System Testing
- Alarm Maintenance
- Alarm Dhelving
- Alarm Response Procedures
Alarm Performance Monitoring and Assessment
- Alarm Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Alarm System Performance Reporting
- Alarm Analysis
- Annunciated Alarm Rate
- Alarm Floods
- Out of Service Alarms
- Chattering, Redundant, Shelved Alarms
- Alarm Reporting
- Alarm Audits
