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certified service providerJune 2007
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Presentation: Matrikon - Top Control - Everest Automation |
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Class |
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Conferences |
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Trick of the month: Alarm Management: Are Your Operators Overwhelmed With Alarms? |
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To contact us |
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Presentation: Matrikon - Top Control - Everest Automation
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In the morning, we will focus on Matrikon and Top Control: products and service.
After lunch, the following products will be presented:
| Advanced Process Control Solution | |
| Alarm Management | |
| Control performance monitoring | |
| Data web visualization (consolidation, integration, and visualization of plant data) | |
| Revolutionary PID optimizer and tools, multi loops (using the same technology as TaiJi-MPC) |
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Upcoming Class
Alarm Management Systems Specialist (AMSS) Certification Program
June 20-21 2007, Montreal, QC
See our 2007 courses calendar
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Conferences
"Asset Management And Performance Supervision at Quebec Cartier Mining",Claude Gosselin, Compagnie Minière Québec Cartier and Michel Ruel, Top Control,To learn more...
12th IFAC Symposium on Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing,
August 21 2007, Quebec, QC
"Managing Assets Using Performance Supervision",
Michel Ruel, Cu2007, 6th Copper Conference,To learn more...
August 27 2007, Toronto, ON
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This Month's Tip : Alarm Management: Are Your Operators Overwhelmed With Alarms?
ISA
(International Society of Automation) announced the ISA-SP18.02
standard at the Matrikon User Group Summit on May 10, 2007, Chicago,
IL. This standard addresses the development, installation, and
management of alarm systems for the process industries. It is intended
to provide a methodology that will improve the safety of industrial and
manufacturing facilities.
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This standard defines the expected performances for an alarm system of an operating station (averages spanned over one month):
| Alarm rate | Best practices |
| Alarms/day | 150 |
| Alarms/hour | 6 |
| Alarms/10 minutes | 1 |
| Maximal number of alarms/hour | 60 |
| % upset time > 30 alarms/hour | 1% |
Other metrics:
- Standing alarms (> 24 hours)
- 20 most frequent alarms
- Priority distribution
- Average time to return at normal state
- Number of interventions/alarm
- Taux d'alarmes selon les priorités
- Configured alarms per controller, per analog input, per digital input
- Etc.
To evaluate your system, place the values on this graphic:
The average number of annunciated alarms is a good indicator of the overall health of the alarm system. Periods of unusually high alarm activity are easily identified in trend charts. This analysis is done based on the alarms annunciated at a single operating position.
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To Contact Us
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Lévis' office | +1 (418)834-4321 |
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Pointe-Claire's office | +1 (514)695-3492 |
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Green Bay's office | +1 (877)867-6473 |
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Toll free (Canada, USA) | +1 (877)867-6473 |
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