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Alarm Management Awareness Day

23 April 2024

Is your organisation grappling with alarm overloads, inefficiencies, and operational risks?

Unmanaged process alarms can lead to downtime, safety hazards, and decreased productivity. But fear not!

Our Alarm Management Awareness day will be an insight into how you can improve the efficiency, safety and compliance of your plant.

Agenda

9:30 - Registration
10:00 - Introduction
Max Jones
Alarm management challenges in industry
10:15 - What does a bad control system look like and how did we get there?
Charlotte Smith
Alarms have been part of SCADA systems since their inception. In this session, you will see how control rooms evolved into environments that can sometimes be overwhelming for operators and why this issue happens.
10:30 - Why is alarm management important?
Tom Renwick
Managing alarms is for many businesses, a mandatory requirement; e.g., COMAH regulated sites. For non-regulated businesses, managing alarms and alarm systems appropriately brings improvements such as reduced demand on safety systems, fewer unnecessary production outages, improved product quality and of course, a less stressful operating environment for your operators which reduces the potential for costly mistakes.
11:15 - Break
11:35 - How to use alarm management for improvements
Ian Brown
Having an optimised alarm system is very important for the safe, effective and low stress operation of process plants. This session will explain how to measure alarm system performance and then how that data can be used to make improvements. The session will also cover the alarm improvement process, the roles of each of the stakeholders, why alarm rationalisation is important and how successful sessions are conducted.
12:15 - Lunch
Demo of alarm management solutions
Tom Renwick
- Sequence of events
- Dashboards
- Reporting
13:15 - Closing, Max Jones

Location:

SolutionsPT,
Unit 1 Oakfield Road,
Cheadle Royal Business Park,
Cheadle, SK8 3GX

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About the Speakers

Charlotte Smith

Technical Manager | SolutionsPT

Charlotte has over 30 years' experience in OT and has delivered many control system projects in this time. She has worked extensively in the UK Power Industry where standards such as EEMUA191 were first introduced in the late 1990s.

Tom Renwick

Systems Architect | SolutionsPT

Tom started his career as a Support Engineer at SolutionsPT after his degree completion at Liverpool John Moores University. He recently moved over to the System Architect team as a Pre Sales Engineer and has just been promoted to a System Architect.

Ian Brown

Alarm Rationalisation and Service Manager | SolutionsPT

With over forty years of experience in the process industries, Ian has accumulated knowledge across a wide range of sectors including industrial, chemical, speciality chemical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, power generation, nuclear and oil & gas; and has held a variety of technical (hardware and software), maintenance management and consultancy roles.

Having successfully led a number of alarm rationalisation projects for clients over the past fourteen years, which resulted in significant reductions in annunciated alarm rates and improvements to their management of alarms; Ian's expertise covers IEC 62682, ISA 18.2 and EEMUA 191 and he trained as a TUV Functional Safety Engineer.

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