An application for automated reporting of industrial alarm system performance

Alarm management has gained significance in the recent past mainly due to the drive to improve safety, reliability and efficiency of process operations. This paper highlights an in-house industrial implementation of a multitude of tools used for monitoring, analyzing and reporting alarm and safety system performance at LongLake site of Nexen Energy ULC. The efficacy of these tools, mainly used by plant engineers and control room operators in improving the alarm system performance is demonstrated through case studies. A brief overview of the implementation architecture is also presented in this paper.