EEMUA 191

Overview
& CAMS for HIS
AGENDA
1. EEMUA 191 Partial
Review
Terry A. Nelson 2. What is CAMS for HIS?
Engineering Mgr. – Power Group 3. Demo
12530 W. Airport Blvd.
Sugar Land, TX 77478
Phone: (281) 340-3921
E-mail: terry.nelson@us.yokogawa.com
* EEMUA 191 is
copyrighted material and
will not be distributed. 1
EEMUA 191 Overview
 EEMUA 191 – Edition 2 (2007) www.eemua.org
 Alarm Systems
A guide to Design, Management and Procurement
Members
Abnormal Situation Management Consortium (ASM)
endorsement
Key Design Principles
Alarms Useful and Relevant
Adequate Time for Operator Response
Characteristics of a good alarm
Safety Related Alarms
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Reliability Claims
EEMUA 191 Overview – Cont.
Signals that should not be alarmed
Alarm Priority Bands
Alarm Settings
Written Rules
1 Alarm every 2 minutes – 50% utilization
Elimination of Overload
Color coding
Priority Band Guidelines
Alarm system size
Standing and Shelved Alarms
Performance Level 5 (Predictive)
Cost of poor alarm performance
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CAMS DEMO
1. Display Filtering
2. Dynamic Filter – Operator / Engineer Built
3. Eclipsing
4. Shelving / Continuous
5. Shelving / One-Shot
6. Shelving / Auto
7. Suppression
8. Load Shedding

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1. What is CAMS for HIS (Human
Interface Station)?
 Stands for Consolidated Alarm Management System
 Consolidation of real-time alarms
 Acquired from DCS(CS 3000), SIS(ProSafe-RS),
AMS(PRM), NCS/PLC(STARDOM )
 Consolidation of historical alarms and events
 A&E and SOE
 Consolidation of alarm-related applications
 Alarm design
 Real-time monitor
 Historical viewer
 Change management
 Statistical analysis and report

 To deliver the necessary alarms to the right person at the 5

right time
 2. CAMS for HIS Functional Flowchart
Maintenance System Chief
Operator Technician System Engineer Plant Manager Engineer Operator

Load Shedding Load Shedding Load Shedding Load Shedding

Operation Analysis
Shelving Shelving Shelving Shelving

Alarm Design
Eclipsing Eclipsing Eclipsing Eclipsing
Sorting Sorting Sorting Sorting
Filtering Filtering Filtering Filtering
Suppression Suppression Suppression Suppression
Grouping Grouping Grouping Grouping

Real-time A&E on memory Alarm Master DB

Attribute Addition
Historical A&E HDD

Re-classification Re-classification Re-classification Re-classification

Normalization Normalization Normalization Normalization
Acquisition Acquisition Acquisition Acquisition

DCS SIS Asset Mngmt. System NCS/PLC

(CS3000) (ProSafe-RS) (PRM) (STARDOM) 6
 3. Feature functions of CAMS for HIS
 Acquisition: Acquiring all available A&E online real-time
 Normalization: Removing dialect or mismatch of information
 Re-classification: Re-classifying alarms or events

 Alarm prioritization: Prioritizing alarms based on purpose &

consequence
 Attribute addition: Adding identifiers and value-added information

 Grouping: Unifying redundant alarms

 Suppression: Suppressing nuisance alarms

 Filtering: Extracting necessary alarms

 Sorting: Sorting alarms based on urgency or
importance
 Eclipsing: Integrating repeated alarm in a single line
 Shelving: Shelving unnecessary alarms temporarily
 Load shedding: Activating predefined filter automatically
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Acquisition
Acquisition: Acquiring various types of
alarms and events from sub-systems
Types of alarms
DCS (Process alarms, System alarms, etc..)
SIS (Safety related alarms)
Asset management system (Field device alarms)
Network Control System (Process alarms)
Types of interfaces
Proprietary control bus interface
OPC A&E
Serial port logger (under consideration) 8

FTP (under consideration), etc.

Normalization & Re-classification
 Normalization: Removing dialect or mismatch of
information
Data arrangement
Standardizing terminology (e.g. High, HI, H+)
Level of alarm priority
Level of plant hierarchy, etc.

 Re-classification: Re-classifying alarms or events

Examples
Correct events that were incorrectly classified as
alarms
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Vice versa
Attribute Addition
 Attribute addition: Adding identifiers and value-added
information
 Identifiers
 Purpose: safety, environmental, financial
 Consequence: very large, large, medium, small
 Time to respond: urgent, quick, routine
 Plant hierarchy: plant, area, unit, line
 Alarm priority: critical, high, medium, low, logging
 Type of user: operator, maintenance, production staff

 Value-added information
 Reason of alarm occurrence
 Role-based action to be taken
 Past action
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Eclipsing
Eclipsing: Integrating repeated alarm in
a single line
Chattering alarms can be visually hidden.
Alarm shown after Eclipsing will be the one
with the highest priority and latest time
stamp.

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Grouping & Suppression

Grouping: Unifying redundant alarms

Same alarms acquired from different sub-
systems

Suppression: Suppressing nuisance

alarms
Suppressing obvious alarms statically (e.g.
alarms generated by stopping plant)

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Filtering & Sorting

Filtering: Extracting necessary alarms

By timestamp, plant hierarchy, alarm priority,
user name, purpose, consequence, etc.

Sorting: Sorting alarms based on urgency

or importance
By timestamp, alarm priority, time to respond,
etc.

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Examples of Filters
 SIS: Alarms from SIS
 Field devices: Alarms from PRM
 Stardom: Alarms from Stardom
 System: DCS system alarms
 Process: DCS process alarms

 Plant A: Alarms in plant hierarchy

 Alarm Priority: High/Medium/Low
 Time to Respond: Urgent/Quick/Routine
 Purpose:
Safety/Environmental/Financial

 Operating Shifts: Alarms in each shift

 Start Up: Important/Unimportant

 Combination filter also can be created.

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Shelving

Shelving: Moving unnecessary alarms

to the shelf temporarily
Examples of shelving functions
One-shot: Moving unimportant alarm into a shelf one
by one.
Continuous: Moving unimportant alarms into a shelf
once, then repeated alarms are automatically moved
for certain periods or by certain clock time.
Automatic: Assigning one of existing filters as a
condition of shelving, then relevant alarms are
automatically moved for certain periods or by certain15
clock time.
Load Shedding
Load shedding: Activating predefined
filter automatically in case of alarm
flooding
If 100 alarms has happened within 60 sec,
then automatically select high priority filter.
(This is the default setting and can be configured per
customer preference.)

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 Display of CAMS for HIS A&E Browser Pane (Read only) A&E Message Pane
Ack Button

Shelf Sort
Pane Bar

Filter
Pane

Detailed Message Pane Dynamic Alarm KPI Bar

(can be linked to related information) 17