TABLE OF CONTENTS Alarm Management has become a very important topic in the safety area. The press continues to report plant incidents caused by poorly designed alarms, alarm flooding, and alarms being bypassed. Every automation professional should understand the basic concepts of this topic.
A basic knowledge of Reliability is fundamental to the concepts of safety and safety instrumented systems. Process Safety and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) is an increasingly important topic. Safety is important in all industries but especially in large industrial processes such as petroleum refineries, chemicals and petrochemicals, pulp and paper mills, and food and pharmaceutical manufacturing, for example. Even in areas where the materials being handled are not inherently hazardous, personnel safety and property loss are important concerns. SIS is simple in concept, but requires a lot of engineering to apply well.
The topic on Electrical Installations underscores the reality that the correct installation of electrical equipment is required to design and implement almost any automation system. This is a very large topic with rigid codes; admittedly, we can only scratch the surface here.
While the safety of electrical installations is closely related to correct electrical installations in general, electrical safety is treated separately here to ensure that sufficient emphasis is placed on the safety aspects of these installations.
The term "alarm management"...
