April Meeting Notice
Topic: “Overview of Alarm Management”
Speaker: Donald G. Dunn - W.S. Nelson Company
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Zoom Presentation – Link will be sent out two days prior to the meeting.
You do not want to miss the very informative presentation on a topic that is of major interest to all industries who are involved with automation and process control. The section will provide certificates of attendance for professional development hours (PDH) for all attendees who request the documentation.
Abstract:
This presentation will provide an introduction and overview of alarm management. It will review a history of alarm management published standards ANSI/ISA18.2, Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries, and the IEC version, IEC62682 of the same name. It will provide a brief introduction to what are standards and how they are used by regulatory bodies. In addition, it will review the importance of alarm management and several significant industry incidents which casual factors were due to poor alarm management.
The alarm management lifecycle from ISA18.2 and IEC62682 will be introduced, and the parts of the lifecycle will be covered. These activities include the alarm philosophy development, alarm rationalization, basic alarm design, advanced alarm techniques, HMI design for alarms, monitoring, assessment, management of change, and audit. We will discuss the entry points to the lifecycle for starting alarm management improvement projects.
Participants will learn about the standards for alarm management and the lifecycle and how they address the common problems of alarm systems.