The Alarm Management Handbook

About this book

The Alarm Management Handbook fills a void in an important technology area within the process industries that has been kept under wraps until now with the specific aim of improving safety and reliability at the worlds process plants. This comprehensive and easy-to-read book provides step-by-step instructions on how process plant personnel can improve their alarm management systems including development of an alarm philosophy rationalization of existing alarm strategies and the application of real-time alarm management. PAS was the first company to introduce commercial alarm management software in 1996 and has become The Global Alarm Authority by completing hundreds of alarm management projects around the world over the last decade. As the industrys authority PAS has collected a broad range of trade secrets and intellectual property into this must-read handbook for engineers and operations staff across the process industries.