An overview of industrial alarm systems: Main causes for alarm overloading, research status, and open problems

J Wang, F Yang, T Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Alarm systems play critically important roles for the safe and efficient operation of modern
industrial plants. However, most existing industrial alarm systems suffer from poor …

Industrial alarm systems: Challenges and opportunities

P Goel, A Datta, MS Mannan - Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process …, 2017 - Elsevier
Industrial alarm systems are very critical for the efficient and safe operation and control of
plants. Alarms are used to inform the operator about possible process deviations from the …

Pattern matching of alarm flood sequences by a modified Smith–Waterman algorithm

Y Cheng, I Izadi, T Chen - Chemical engineering research and design, 2013 - Elsevier
Alarm flooding is one of the main problems in alarm management. Alarm flood pattern
analysis is helpful for root cause analysis of historical floods and for incoming flood …

Association rules mining based analysis of consequential alarm sequences in chemical processes

J Wang, H Li, J Huang, C Su - Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process …, 2016 - Elsevier
In the context of industrial alarm rationalization, the analysis of consequential alarms is
helpful for finding out root alarms so as to avoid alarm flooding. Motivated by this idea, this …

Addressing alarm flood situations in the process industries through alarm summary display design and alarm response strategy

JC Laberge, P Bullemer, M Tolsma… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Despite efforts to improve alarm systems, alarm flooding remains a significant problem in the
process industries. Alarm summary displays for managing alarm floods do not fully support …

Computing dependent industrial alarms for alarm flood reduction

J Folmer, B Vogel-Heuser - International Multi-Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the domain of process control, operators face the problem that more alarms are generated
than can be physically addressed by a single operator. Such a situation is called alarm …

An accelerated alignment method for analyzing time sequences of industrial alarm floods

C Guo, W Hu, S Lai, F Yang, T Chen - Journal of Process Control, 2017 - Elsevier
In industrial processes, analyzing and predicting process faults are quite important, which
could help operators to take timely and effective responses to ensure process safety and …

[HTML][HTML] MFM-based alarm root-cause analysis and ranking for nuclear power plants

M Song, C Reinartz, X Zhang, HPJ Thunem… - Nuclear Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Alarm flood due to abnormality propagation is the most difficult alarm overloading problem in
nuclear power plants (NPPs). Root-cause analysis is suggested to help operators in …

Performance assessment for generalized delay-timers in alarm configuration

Z Zeng, W Tan, R Zhou - Journal of Process Control, 2017 - Elsevier
False and nuisance alarms are major problems in the process industry. Generalized delay-
timer is an effective technique to improve the performance of an alarm system. However, due …

Detection of temporal dependencies in alarm time series of industrial plants

J Folmer, F Schuricht, B Vogel-Heuser - IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2014 - Elsevier
Concerning industrial plants, operators face the problem that more alarms are generated
than can be physically perceived and addressed by a single operator. Such a situation is …