It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, but we’re
right around the corner from releasing version 13 of DeltaV and I wanted to let
you know about a really cool new feature – DeltaV Alarm Mosaic.
Alarm Mosaic is part of our focus on Alarm Management and
helps our customers become 100% compliant with ISA 18.2, the Alarm Management
standard.
Alarm Mosaic is a new way of looking at active
alarms and aid in the analysis of an alarm flood. Instead of presenting a tabular view of
active alarms, Mosaic presents the alarms on a more intuitive timeline:
Each column is an adjustable time slice – from 1 second to 4
hours. Within each column, the alarms
are stacked with the most recent on the bottom.
Different visual indicators let you know which alarms are active
acknowledged, active unacknowledged, and inactive unacknowledged. From within Mosaic, you can acknowledge
alarms, call up faceplates and detail displays within DeltaV Operate, and even
launch Alarm Help.
To help in root cause analysis, operator actions are overlaid
with the alarms. In addition, the Alarm
Characteristics panel allows the user to highlight alarms using 7 different
properties including classification, area, even which displays the alarms are
contained on.
A really neat feature is the History Activation view. Once an alarm flood has been successfully
dealt with, the Mosaic view won’t show any alarms. By switching over to the History Activation
view, the alarm flood along with operator actions can be viewed from data
stored in the Event Chronicle, providing a great tool to use at shift turnover
meetings and as a general teaching aid.
Check out all of the Alarm Management tools on the DeltaV
website.
