2. WW HMI SCADA-05 Brand & Industries: Focus of presentation:
Alarm Adviser and Industry Segment Positioning
Brand & Industries:
Wonderware
Food & Beverage
Infrastructure & Smart Cities
Life Sciences (No Industry Feedback Session)
Metals, Mining & Minerals
Oil & Gas
Power & Utilities
Water& Wastewater
Focus of presentation:
A complete new offering to analyze your Alarms and improve operational efficiency.
Join this session to learn about the Alarm Adviser alarm reporting product and how this offering can bring value to existing customers as well as help secure new opportunities. Engineers can use the metrics to make informed decisions to improve overall alarm system performance and managers can analyze the metrics to monitor and optimize operator workload.
What you’ll take away:
System Integrators, Plant Engineers, Technicians, Operators… all benefit from this release
Strong analysis package.
See how you can go back to your installed InTouch and System Platform users and offer them something completely new that solves real world problem and requires no engineering.
A true game changer…they will be up and running in 5 minutes..
Focus of presentation: what you’ll talk about
Brand & Vertical: Ampla, Avantis, ClearSCADA, SimSci, OASyS DNA, Vijeo Citect, Wonderware
What you’ll take away: 3 or 4 main points audience should remember

3. Metals, Mining, and Minerals Metals, Mining, and Minerals
Alarm Adviser 2014 R2
Key Enabler
Relevant
Oil and Gas
Water and Wastewater
Power and Utilities
Food and Beverage
Life Sciences
Metals, Mining, and Minerals
Infrastructure
Alarm Adviser
Oil and Gas
Water and Wastewater
Power and Utilities
Food and Beverage
Life Sciences
Metals, Mining, and Minerals
Infrastructure

4. Current state around alarming
Configured alarms per operator

5. Economical impact Affecting several crucial areas of plant operations:
Reduces the operational effectiveness
Economical impact: Unnecessary plant shutdowns (in the USA alone this costs $20 Billion a year on productivity)
Poor alarm management also causes losses in product quality, danger to population and environment and/or image loss of a respective company
Source : ASM Consortium
Abnormal Situation Management

6. Safety Impact Layers of Protection and their Impact on the Process
Texaco Pembroke 1994
Fire & Explosion at Texas City Refinery
Piper Alpha North sea 1988
Bunkfield Oil Depot

7. Why did the number of alarms increase?
Automation evolution (including fieldbus) brought more accessible information per sensor/actuator
Alarms are easily configurable now (no more wired) -> no real cost at engineering or operating time to add alarms
People (e.g. SI’s) tend to believe more is better: nothing can happen without notice if everything has an attached alarm

8. First of All – Why
Alarm System Management has become an important operational tool to: Save time and money – deal with important conditions only Reduce risk – hardware maintenance, plant operation, incidents Improve effectiveness of operations – focus on the real issues
So why do we care about alarm management
CLICK
Shown on previous slides, bad actors and nuisance alarms lead to an inability for an operator to maintain a safe, reliable and efficient system
Proactively managing your alarm system is key to resolving this, but this can be an expensive exercise. Analysing the performance of your site with Alarm Adviser simplifies this activity allowing you to focus on and deal with the real issues in your system
2nd, reduce risk – by allowing the operator to focus only on the real alarms allows them to focus on real issues in the plant, thereby improving maintenance, reducing downtime and most importantly reducing the risk of incidents.
Finally, by removing the bad actors from the Alarm system allows our customers to focus on the real issues within their plant, leading to operational improvements and improvements in operating costs.

9. A set of standards and guidelines
EEMUA 191, Alarm systems a guide to design
Namur NA 102 Worksheet, Alarm Management
NPD YA 711, Principles for alarm design (Norwegian petroleum doctorate slowly adopted throughout Europe as the standard)
VDI/VDE Guideline 3699 (process control using monitors)
ISA S18.02, Management of alarm systems for the process industry
IEC Alarm Management Standard
ANSI/ISA 18.2 Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries
API RP-1167 Alarm Management For Pipeline Systems

10. Monitoring & Assessment
DMAIC J
Audit
Audit
Alarm Philosophy A
ANSI/ISA-18.2 offers a lifecycle model
Alarm identification B
Management of Change
Define an alarm improvement program I
Measure the current situation
Alarm
rationalization C
Analyse the areas for improvement
Detailed design D
Improve the situation
Implementation E
Control and hold the gain with metrics
Operation
Monitoring & Assessment
CLICK for D M A I C
ISA-18.2 Lifecycle model for alarm management.
New site would, or should, start with alarm philosophy. In most cases this is not true, systems have evolved to where they are today with a lack of standards.
Define (Audit): Starting point is an initial audit, or benchmark, of all aspects of alarm management against a set of documented practices, such as those listed in ISA18.2. The results of the initial audit can be used in the development of a philosophy.
Measure: Use Alarm Adviser to create a benchmark of the current system
Analyse: Identify bad actors (areas of improvement), use frequent, standing, fleeting and consequential alarms in Alarm Adviser
Improve: the situation. Ref: Rob Kambach and Alarm Improvements in System Platform Use alarm management tools such as Situation Awareness, Alarm suppression, Alarm Aggregation and the tuning of alarm setpoints.
Control: Set KPI’s and continually measure performance to ensure that the alarm system does not degrade. Define KPI’s and use dashboards in Alarm Adviser to maintain performance F
Maintenance G H

11. Life Cycle Monthly/Weekly Alarm Rationalization Annual Alarm Design1
Active When
Annual
Alarm Design
Analysis of Current Situation 2
Plant State Suppression 1
Shelving
Delay On/Off Timers
Operator Input
Alarm Adviser
Implementation
Standing
Fleeting
Frequent
Bad Actors
Alarm Philosophy 3
Suppression
Implement
Eliminate
Noise 2
Review
Alarms
Why
Operational
Limits Document
Alarm performance Assessment
Wonderware
Software
Alarm
Adviser
Determine Fleeting 4
Determine Frequent
Determine Standing
Determine Bad Actors

12. Wonderware Alarm Adviser
Wonderware Alarm Adviser is a web based tool for discovering nuisance alarms in your process system through interactive visual analysis
Total, frequent, standing, fleeting and consequential views allow nuisance alarm to be easily identified
Dashboards make it possible to benchmark and maintain your alarm performance in line with industry standards

13. IEC 62682 Alarm Standard Worldwide
Introduces vendor neutral terms.
Shelving, Initiated by Operator to temporarily suppress a Alarm
Suppressed by Design, Mechanism implemented within that prevents the transmission of the alarm indication to the operator based on Plant State.
Out of Service, is the state of a alarm indication that is suppressed, typical manually, for reasons such as maintenance.
These map to our system as Shelving, Plant State and Inhibit or Disabled.
The standard requires that all alarms currently shelved, suppressed by design and out of service can be listed. Alarms must be under access control to be placed out of service. If an alarm is placed out of service it must be recorded.

14. Situational Awareness HMI and Alarms Combined
Traditional HMI
Critical
What Happened ?
Alarm
Grid
Tool
Process
Trends
Impact
Tool
Knowledge
Operator
Operational
Limits
SA Graphics
Knowledge
Operator
Alarm
Boundaries
What is Happening ?
Interpretation time
Alarm
Time
- 40 %

15. Advanced Graphics, EEMUA, ISO
Identify what type of information and support people need in order to be able to deal successfully with unanticipated events
(Higher) Plant Operating Target
(Fewer) Planning Constraints
(Fewer) Operational Constraints
APG Efforts
Recovery of
3-8% of Capacity
**Core slide***
This is the same sort of data as the previous slide, viewed as a frequency histogram. This slide only looks production-- for example, capacity realized--and does not factor in costs required to attain that capacity nor costs of accidents. The typical 125kbbd refinery or average chemical plant has an area under the curve worth on the order of $1 Billion U.S.
Investments in advanced control are intended to move the distribution of production rates to the right. The ASM program intends to slice off the tail on the left. The two kinds of investment are largely independent.
Days per Year
Plant Capacity Limit
< 60%
95%
100%
Daily Production

16. 2014 System Platform Alarm Enhancements
Released January 2014
2014 System Platform Alarm Enhancements
Before 2014…….you could build your own alarm App…but you needed the know how.
Setup the logger
Define Queries
Configure/Connect Databases
Have SQL Server SA
Passwords
Wire the Runtime to
History
Repeat all the same for
Visualization
Setup the logger as service

17. 2014 delivers this experience…

18. Applying the guidelines
Alarm Priorities:
The system shall only represent four active alarm priorities:
Priority 1 Critical (only Safety and Emergency related)
Priority 2 High
Priority 3 Medium
Priority 4 Low
Priority 5 Events and logging only no Alarms.
The four priorities and the impact to the business and operation.
Ranking and economical scale:
Operational risk of the Alarms.
Define response times for each category

19. Severity indication on alarm borders
Severity 1 response time < 5min
Severity 2 response time < 30min
Severity 3 response time < 60min
Specification
Severity 4 response time < 120min
Wonderware
Implementation

20. Global Priority to Severity mapping
One location to change and customizable image…
Default Alarm Border Icons

21. Global defined styles for alarm colors and borders.
One place to change how graphics represent Alarms

22. Alarm Border animation.
Runtime
Global Icons
Global Styles
Auto Configuration for Field_Attributes or objects

23. Possible Alarm Border States on Graphics
Can represent multiple alarms
Its show the Alarms in the following
order of importance
Using something we call “Most Urgent”
Un_Acked Severity 1,2,3,4
Acked ,2,3,4
Unacked RTN Normal 1,2,3,4
Shelved 1,2,3,4
Disabled, Inhibited 1,2,3,4
Silence 1,2,3,4
In Alarm Acked
Un-Acked Flashing
Was in Alarm
Returned to Normal
Un-Acked
Disabled or Inhibited
(Engineering)
Shelved
(Operator)
Silenced /
Suppressed
(Operator,
PlantState)
Yes No
Transitions logged
Yes, tab
Shelved
In Alarm Summary Display
Indicated in alarm border
Aggregated/
Counted

24. Alarm Aggregation Counted and totalized by Area or Object Active count
On any level
In the model 24

25. 2014 R2 Release System Platform
If 2014
We Delivered this….
Releasing October 2014

26. 2014 R2 delivers this: Scalability Factor times 10
Clients with out of the box experience
Shelving and plant state suppression built in
Alarm App

27. Update Clients - Runtime
Tabbed filtering
Actual alarm indicators on Tabs
Ack buttons
And styles and themes setup as default

28. Updated Clients- Historical
Defined with the standard Themes and Styles colors
Fonts best Practices HMI Standards
Dynamic Filter tabs
Group By functionality
History Blocks
Extra Columns

29. Severity Indication in Runtime and History mode within the Alarm Symbols

30. Widgets for Alarming

31. Alarm Shelving Shelving from Alarm Client or Scripting Who Can Shelve?
Mandatory a Reason and duration
Audit trail logged to historian
Any configured alarm can be shelved
Only enabled Alarms can be shelved
What can be shelved?
Alarm Border integration

32. Alarms Plant State Based Suppression
Global definition of plant states
Area object based suppression of alarms
Individual state on the area object has a I/O Extension

33. Added Operational Permissions
Who can Shelve
Who can Inhibit / Disable
Who can change Plant State
Who can modify Alarm and Event
configurations

34. Operational organization of alarms
Inhibit / Disabled
Based on Maintenance
Engineering
Operator
Shelving
Based on temporary
conditions
PLC
Plant State
Based on production
Conditions

35. Unified Attribute Editor
Same UI on any object
to manage alarms
Duplicate Function
Bulk Editing
Smart Filter
Icons that show what Features are On or Off

36. New High performance Storage and retrieval.
Choice upon install logging to legacy DB A2ALMDB
100 messages per second
History Blocks same as process data.
2000 messages per second

37. Product Walkthrough

38. Key Points to Alarm Adviser
Once purchased no additional Application Engineering time
All the reports you are about to see are out of the box
The data is automatically collected
Can be small, a single node InTouch or large multitudes of different databases
Metrics are according to EEMUA 191 but can be changed to fit needs
Support any client device, HMTL5 based application
No IIS to configure self hosted and contained webserver
Unlimited clients, simple licensing coupled with 3 options and 3 architectures
Electronic licensing and activation

39. Components

40. Architectures / Licenses
Alarm Adviser Server
SCADA Node
Client PC
SCADA System
Web Browser
Alarm Adviser
Web Server
Alarm Adviser
Service
Collector
Alarm
Adviser
Database
Alarm Adviser Demo Mode
Single Node, One Collector
Small Systems
1DB, 5000 Analysis points
Small Systems
Alarm Adviser Standard
1 Alarm DB, 1Million Analysis points
Single Node, One Collector

41. Architectures / Licenses
Alarm Adviser Server
Collector
SCADA System A Node
SCADA System
Client PC
Alarm Adviser Professional
Alarm Adviser
Web Server
Alarm Adviser
Service
Web Browser
Single Node, Multiple Collectors
Medium Systems
Alarm
Adviser
Database
Collector
SCADA System B Node
SCADA System
5DB’s, 10Million Analysis points
Firewall
Alarm Adviser Premium
Client PC1
Web Server
Machine 1
Collector
SCADA System A Node
SCADA System
Distributed Architecture, Multiple Collectors
Web Browser
Alarm Adviser
Web Server
Alarm Adviser
Service
Large Systems
Client PC2
10DB’s, Unlimited Analysis points
Web Browser
Alarm
Adviser
Database
Collector
SCADA System B Node
SCADA System
All - Unlimited Clients
Client PCn
Web Browser
SQL Infrastructure
Firewall

42. Alarm Adviser - Overview
Common UI/UX
Up to 10 years of historic alarm data
Multiple sites/plants/systems
Connects to
Vijeo Citect
InTouch
System Platform
ClearSCADA
Foxboro

43. Configuration – Priority & Severity

44. The dashboard is available to all users

45. Dashboard – User defined KPIs
EEMUA 191 Standards

46. Dashboard Widgets

47. Dashboard Widgets - Customization

48. Dashboard Widgets - Customization

49. Alarm Activity - Time Range

50. Alarm Activity – Severity Distribution

51. Alarm Activity and Filtering

52. Alarm Activity and Filtering

53. Alarm Activity – Data Table

54. Frequent Alarms

55. Frequent Alarms – Detail of Selected

56. Long Standing Alarms – Most Frequent

57. Long Standing Alarms – Most Frequent

58. Long Standing Alarms - Longest

59. Long Standing Alarms – Total

60. Fleeting Alarms – Most Frequent

61. Fleeting Alarms – Export Data Table
Measure
Responsiveness
How many Times Occurred
How many Times Acked

62. Fleeting Alarms – Total

63. Consequence/Cascading

64. Consequence/Cascading

65. Favourites - Adding

66. Favourites - Managing