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Best Practice: Alarming for Wonderware System Platform

Best Practice: Alarming for Wonderware System Platform. Altmar du Toit Wonderware Southern Africa. Agenda. What is alarms and events? Alarms in System Platform New Alarm Control Demo Conclusion. What is an Alarm. In general an alarm is a condition – in particular an abnormal condition

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Best Practice: Alarming for Wonderware System Platform

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  1. Best Practice: Alarming for Wonderware System Platform Altmar du Toit Wonderware Southern Africa

  2. Agenda • What is alarms and events? • Alarms in System Platform • New Alarm Control • Demo • Conclusion

  3. What is an Alarm • In general an alarm is a condition – in particular an abnormal condition • Example: Normal Condition Abnormal Condition

  4. What is an Event? • A detectable occurrence which does not need operator response • Example: Start Pump Event Occured

  5. Alarms and Events • Grouped • Prioritized • Distributed • Visualized • Stored

  6. Agenda • What is alarms and events? • Alarms in System Platform • New Alarm Controls • Demo • Conclusion

  7. Alarms in System Platform Consumer Galaxy Consumer Consumer

  8. Which is the provider?

  9. Best practice planning alarm system • Determine Alarms before hand • Use IO/Lists • Communicate with the process department • Do not alarm on every single I/O only the absolute necessary ones • Prioritize your alarms (Critical to Info) • Build the critical alarms into your templates to enforce standards through to all the instances • Plan the areas before hand and build your model accordingly • How will you visualize the alarms?

  10. Where do we store the alarms

  11. Alarms in a Network Environment • Different Alarm Providers View2 View1 View3 AOS 01 AOS 02 Historian PLC PLC PLC

  12. Historical Alarms • Benefit of using multiples alarm providers • No historical data loss • Minimize Network Traffic • No single point of failure

  13. Historical Alarms and redundancy • Alarms in redundant configuration : • Described in Implementing Redundancy section of the deployment guide • Also refer to Technote 430

  14. Agenda • What is alarms and events? • Alarms in System Platform • New Alarm Controls • Demo • Conclusion

  15. New Alarm Controls • Alarms are viewed in the new Alarm Client Controls. • The new alarm client can be found in the graphic toolbox

  16. New Alarm Controls • The Client Control can be embedded and configured in the graphic symbol editor • New Client Control tools are included in the graphic symbol editor

  17. New Alarm Controls • Once the alarm control is embedded it can be configured

  18. New Alarm Controls • Alarms can be viewed as Current or Historical

  19. New Alarm Controls • Alarm Colours, Column Details, Query Filters, Time Settings, Run Time Behaviour, Data Binding and Event properties can be configured

  20. Best practice visualizing alarms • If you have to use popups only use them for the absolutely critical alarms • Show alarm page on menu bar and show critical alarms only • Configure the alarm system to be dynamic • Show alarm drill down to area and show the page with the critical alarm

  21. Demo DEMO

  22. Agenda • What is alarms and events? • Alarms in System Platform • New Alarm Controls • Demo • Conclusion

  23. Conclusion • Distinguish between alarms and events • Plan your model before hand – alarms are grouped according to areas • Prioritise alarms according to the severity of the alarm • Choose the correct alarm provider for your site topology • Store alarm database to the historian • Make it as easy as possible for the user to acknowledge the alarms visually

  24. Questions Questions

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