The effective robust management of plant requires the implementation of industrial alarm
systems in a very significant capacity. The core objective of alarms is to warn the operator of …

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 …

Flooding of alarms is a very crucial problem in process industries. An alarm flood makes an
operator ineffective of taking necessary actions, and often risking an emergency shutdown …

The problem of multivariate alarm analysis and rationalization is complex and important in
the area of smart alarm management due to the interrelationships between variables. The …

A process alarm arises when normal operation limits are exceeded and an alarm
management system alerts the operator of a process plant. Due to the material, energy and …

In process plants, alarms are configured to notify operators of any abnormalities or faults.
However, in practice a majority of raised alarms are false or nuisance and create problems …

The fusion of information from disparate sources of data is the key step in devising strategies
for a smart analytics platform. In the context of the application of analytics in the process …

Despite the high-pace improvement of industrial process automation, the management of
abnormal events still requires human actions. Alarm systems are becoming crucial in …

Rationality of alarm systems enormously impacts safety and economic performances of
process plants, which definitely demands for process alarm threshold optimization. In this …

Despite significant efforts to measure and assess the performance of alarm systems, to this
day, no silver bullet has been found. The majority of the existing standards and guidelines …