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The Intelligent Alarm Management System

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Jun Liu,

Khiang Wee Lim,

Weng Khuen Ho,

Kay Chen Tan,

Rajagopalan Srinivasan,

Arthur TayAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Software, Volume 20, Issue 2

Pages 66 - 71

https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2003.1184170

Published: 01 March 2003 Publication History

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Process plant operators often have to respond to many alarms. Nuisance alarms often clutter and obscure an operator's view of critical and important information, with potentially severe consequences. The Intelligent Alarm Management System suppresses nuisance alarms and provides valuable advisory information to help operators quickly focus on important alarm information and take correct actions. This system has been implemented on Yokogawa distributed control systems, validated in real online tests, and accepted by plant operators. The results show that nuisance alarms are effectively suppressed and alarm systems become more helpful.

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Tripathi SKulkarni WTripathi SJoshi A(2013)Improving visualization for decision making in alarm resolution of power systemsProceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction10.1145/2525194.2525278(247-251)Online publication date: 24-Sep-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2525194.2525278

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March 2003

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Hearns G(2020)Control systemsAdvanced Control for Applications10.1002/adc2.562:4Online publication date: 10-Dec-2020
Tripathi SKulkarni WTripathi SJoshi A(2013)Improving visualization for decision making in alarm resolution of power systemsProceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction10.1145/2525194.2525278(247-251)Online publication date: 24-Sep-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2525194.2525278

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