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Best ISA Webinars of 2017
An ISA roundup of some of the best educational industrial automation industry webinars presented in 2017. -
OSI's Enhanced Situational Awareness system chosen by Canadian power company to improve efficiency
Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro is the primary generator of electricity in Newfoundland and Labrador. This system is intended to improve the company’s operational effectiveness in complex and dynamic operational environments. -
How to Solve Common Problems with Industrial Alarm Systems
An industrial automation alarm system is a powerful aid, showing the right time to take the right action to prevent an undesired consequence. -
Materials Handling Automation Innovations include Safety and Ergonomics
By Thomas R. Cutler, Manufacturing Media Consortium The notions of safety and profitability are not mutually exclusive. This article discusses cost-effective ways how automation can help facilitate your organizational safety -
ProcessVue facilitates alarm management for international gas pipeline
M.A.C. Solutions installed ProcessVue Collector software at both ends of the pipe. The collector has the function of sucking the data out of the local SCADA database. -
Improved Correlation Analysis and Visualization of Industrial Alarm Data
This post is an excerpt from the journal ISA Transactions. All ISA Transactions articles are free to ISA members, or can be purchased from Elsevier Press. -
Revised ISA alarm management standard approved by ANSI
Among the key changes in the new version of the standard are stronger requirements for control systems to have the functions to support good alarm management practices, new requirements for package systems such as compressors and heat trace systems, and clarifications in some terminology. -
Webinar Recording: How to Optimize Critical Alarm Response for Industrial Processes
Alarms keep production running smoothly and safely, but how can you cut through the clutter and respond in an effective way? -
The Importance of Auditing the Industrial Alarm Management System
While alarm performance monitoring measures alarm performance, periodic audit ensures adequate management and work practices for an alarm management system. -
Effective Alarm Management Planning Using ANSI/ISA-18.2
Using the ANSI/ISA-18.2-2009 standard for alarm management early in the DCS selection and specification stage can eliminate a number of project problems. -
Alarm management systems: the benefits of third party software
By Jason Cook, MAC Solutions When it comes to selecting an enterprise-wide alarm management system, businesses should consider the pros and cons of a third party specific alarm management tool over a DCS vendor’s offering -
MAC Solutions buys ProcessVue Alarm Management
MAC Solutions bought Asgard Technologies, developer of the ProcessVue suite of alarm management and printer replacement software. -
Top 10 Industrial Alarm System Blunders
Proper alarm methods improve safety, the environment and plant profitability. -
Premier Oil installs ProcessVue alarm management
ProcessVue ensures that data from safety-critical plant is always logged, enabling engineers to identify the cause of a plant upset, including the sequence of events (SOEs) leading up to this. -
Webinar Recording: Best Practices for Alarm Management
Industry experts on alarm management share insights on alarm systems; real engineers presenting real solutions and real results. -
Too Many Alarms in an Industrial Plant Can Be Worse Than None at All
Alarm management is a never ending effort. Routinely review the plant’s alarm list, and try to eliminate or address points that appear too often. -
Human Factors Engineering in Project Execution
By Bridget Fitzpatrick Track: Human Performance Bridget Fitzpatrick from Wood Group Mustang presented on the topic of Human Factors Engineering (HFE) in the context of Automation projects. The talk centered around defining HFE and providing an overview of how it applies to automation projects. -
TiPS Inc. offers Human Factors Engineering with Acuite Partnership
The partnership expands TiPS' capabilities to provide customers with services such as human factors engineering, control room design and advanced user interface development. -
Alarm Floods and Their Connection to Plant Incidents
Alarm Floods and Their Connection to Plant Incidents -
Drax Power Station uses ProcessVue to improve alarm management
Drax Power Station in the UK uses ProcessVue software to identify alarm trends and analyse the causes of plant upsets.
