Matrikon Europe - Alarm Management for Offshore Platforms

With more than 4,000 systems installed world-wide, Matrikon™ Alarm Manager has become the standard for oil and gas companies looking to improve efficiency and increase profitability through better alarm management. From comprehensive alarm handling to sophisticated reporting and analysis, Matrikon Alarm Manager combines a clear, easy-to-use operator interface for viewing alarms in a control room, with a powerful suite of engineering tools allowing the user to carry out detailed alarm analysis and rationalisation.

IMPROVED ALARM MANAGEMENT FOR OFFSHORE PLATFORMS

• Eliminate nuisance alarms to improve operator efficiency
• Enable fast incident reviews
• Improved maintenance focus
• Enhanced safety and regulatory compliance
• Analyzes, manages, and monitors alarm systems
• Helps monitor operations and operator work load

Matrikon Alarm Manager has been engineered to accommodate the specific requirements for any offshore alarm management program.

MATRIKON ALARM MANAGER

Matrikon Alarm Manager extracts the alarm system's Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) which are crucial to understanding, refining and most importantly, reducing process alarms. It connects to the individual IMAC Sentinel™ systems on each asset to give detailed reporting and analysis throughout your enterprise. Alarm Manager provides numerous condition-based-monitoring functions which show you exactly what is happening offshore, all in real time.

KEY FEATURES OF MATRIKON ALARM MANAGER

• Real-time alarm and event analysis
• Compatible with all major control systems
• Dynamic alarming to ensure system performance remains robust, even during state transitions and process upsets.
• Early Event Detection (EED) predicts equipment failures up to six weeks in advance, minimizing lost productivity and costly outages.
• Downtime reporting tracks and flags frequent causes of facility outages, allowing maintenance to focus on tasks yielding higher returns.
• Compliant with EEMUA 191 and the emerging S18.02 alarm management standards

IMAC SENTINEL

IMAC Sentinel is an 'out-of-the-box', simple alarm management tool intended for independent single assets. With a range of 'add-on' function modules and the ability to upscale to Matrikon Alarm Manager, IMAC Sentinel offers the perfect entry level solution for organizations who want to improve alarm handling in the control room.

KEY FEATURES OF IMAC SENTINEL™

• Connects to multiple control systems simultaneously via OPC, Ethernet, RS-232 and Flat File
• Replaces any alarm or screen dump printer, including Postscript and PCL
• Performs powerful SQL search queries
• Open architecture integrates easily with other packages such as MS SQL, Oracle and Excel
• Automatically archives data for long term storage
• Fully configurable real time viewer
• Web enabled

MATRIKON ALARM MANAGER – MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE

Matrikon Alarm Manager’s Management of Change module automatically imports the configuration information from DCSs, HMIs, PLCs, or any other type of system and automatically; monitors each online configuration for changes, tracks against original designed values and documents any changes or modifications.

KEY FEATURES OF MATRIKON ALARM MANAGER – MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE

• Tracks actual configuration state against designed values
• Automates change management processes
• Automatically creates an audit trail of all changes, and who made the changes
• Documents alarms or any other configuration information
• Provides operators/controllers with access to the alarm documentation right from their consoles
• Validates alarm configuration against EEMUA 191 recommended best practices
• Substantially reduces the effort required to rationalization alarms

ALARM RATIONALISATION SERVICES

Regulatory bodies such as the HSE in the UK and OSHA in the USA are becoming increasingly aware of the significance of effective alarm systems, especially following a number of high-profile safety incidents in recent years where the alarm systems have been implicated. Without effective alarm management you cannot be certain that your operators will respond correctly when there is a plant upset. Combining Matrikon products and services mean that effective alarm management can now be achieved with minimal effort for maximum effect.