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DCS and scada alarm management survey

July 2007 News

We are investigating alarm management practice amongst DCS and scada system integrators and end-users in South Africa. We plan to compile the results and publish them in a forthcoming issue of SA Instrumentation & Control. Your answers will help to provide an overview of current implementation methods and codes of practice applied to alarm management in South Africa.

If you would like to respond to this survey please go to www.instrumentation.co.za/alarm_survey

The closing date for responses to this survey is 2007/07/31.

The survey asks the following questions:

Respondent details

* E-mail address.

* Country in which respondent operates.

* Name of organisation on whose behalf respondent is responding.

* Site name (eg, Jhb Head Office/Conoco refinery Bloemfontein).

* Type of organisation (end-user/system integrator).

* Respondent name (optional).

* Respondent job function/job title (optional).

Questions

Q1. Has your organisation adopted any alarm management standard for DCS and/or scada systems? Y/N.

Q2. Do the DCS systems that you use enforce compliance with that standard, or is compliance left to the project team? Not applicable/Y/N.

Q3. Do the scada systems that you use enforce compliance with that standard, or is compliance left to the project team? Not applicable/Y/N.

Q4. When configuring an alarm system, how many alarms per operator per hour do you expect for normal steady state operation? A. Not considered B. 0-15 C. 16-30 D. >30.

Q5. If you have adopted a standard for alarm management, what is that standard? Not applicable/standard name.

Q6. If you have adopted a standard for alarm management, what percentage of your projects fully comply with that standard? A. Not applicable B. 100% C. 0% D. Somewhere in between (give an estimate).

Q7. If you are a service organisation (systems integrator, engineering organisation, etc,) what percentage of clients state a requirement for alarm management standard compliance? A. Not applicable B. 100% C. 0% D. Somewhere in between (give an estimate).

Q8. If clients/potential clients state a requirement for alarm management standard compliance, with which standards do they require compliance? Not applicable/standard name

Q9. In configuring your alarm systems have you incorporated specialised alarm shapes for display purposes? Not applicable/Y/N

Q10. Please add any other comments that you would like to record on this subject (eg, how adoption of alarm management standards has helped or hindered projects/improved safety and operability/overcome skills deficits.

For more information contact Andrew Ashton, Technews, +27 (0)11 886 3640, [email protected], www.instrumentation.co.za



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