Triggers and Alarms Features and Functions

• Triggering of corrective work by time


• Triggering of corrective work by time and usage


• Ability to trigger corrective work by time, usage, and event


• Triggering of corrective work by condition indicator, including


• Automatic triggering of corrective work from a standards library based on:


• Multiple indicators per asset


• Ability for user to set up an inspection route for a single asset type across multiple locations


• Ability for user to set up an inspection route for multiple assets in a single location


• Ability to handle multiple inspections at multiple points on an asset or infrastructure


• Provision of inspector with nominal (i.e., expected) value for a given inspection


• Provision of inspector with historical information including last value, date, and description


• Recording of problem, cause, and action taken against individual assets along the route


• Triggering of an inspection on a preferred day or date if within tolerance


• Ability to forecast when the next meter reading should occur based on historical readings


• Ability to check that readings are reasonable with a user-defined formula


• Triggering of an alarm based on the value of inspection data


• Performance of mathematical calculations on collected numeric data and triggering of an alarm based on the calculated value


• Triggering of an alarm using Boolean logic for multiple condition indicators and alarm states


• Analysis of deviations based on preset single preset alarm level or state, and trigger an alarm


• Analysis of deviations based on a calculated value and Boolean logic combination of multiple condition indicator states or values, and trigger an alarm


• At least three alarm levels for severity and priority for all indicators


• Alarm severity that indicates the equipment closest to failure


• E-mail notification of a condition-based alarm


• Conditions and alarms that are visibly distinguished on the graphic (e.g., blinking, color change)


• Color-coded alarm tables for indicators


• Alarm notifications that are visible from the asset hierarchy


• Ability to easily query alarms by severity, asset criticality, date of alarm, or unacknowledged


• Ability to save alarm queries for later use


• Entry of a new condition from within the graphic screen


• Triggering from one indicator that resets all other triggers for a given asset


• Automatic triggering of an e-mail on a pre-defined indicator alarm or state


• Alarm icons or status indicators in plant hierarchy (traffic light system)


• Ability to view all current alarms at the plant, line, or functional area


• Standard integration to production control systems (PLCs, data historians)


• Indicator alarms that can automatically generate work orders


• Alarms that can be manually acknowledged with a work order


• Suggestion of the appropriate corrective work if an indicator is in the alarm state


• Acknowledgement of alarms or conditions from within the graphic screen


• Acknowledgement of alarms and review of history from a single panel, shown in asset hierarchy


• Acknowledgement of alarms and review of history from an HTML pictorial interface


• Acknowledgement of alarms and review of alarm acknowledgment history within four steps


• Acknowledgement of alarms with a continue to monitor instruction


• Acknowledgement of alarms with a fixed during inspection instruction


• Acknowledgement of alarms with an incorrect reading instruction


• Acknowledgement of alarms with an incorrect measure instruction


• Acknowledgement of alarms with a work order instruction


• Acknowledgement of alarms with a work request instruction


• Acknowledgement of alarms with a missed instruction, if another indicator reading is entered prior to the initial alarm acknowledgment