Alarm Management Fundamentals
Registration required no payment at the door. This takes place over 2 consecutive night's, February 4 & 5th 2025. A total of 5 PDH will be issued to registered attendees.
Two Night Seminar Covering Alarm Management Fundamentals: This course is geared towards practicing electrical, control and instrument engineers who perform engineering on systems which develop alarms impacting operators.
Abstract:
Poor alarm management is one of the leading causes of unplanned downtime, contributing to over $20B in lost production every year [1], and of major industrial incidents such as the one in Texas City (2005). Developing good alarm management practices is not a discrete activity, but more of a continuous process (i.e., it is more of a journey than a destination). This paper will describe the ISA -18.2 standard, “Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries” [21]. Example alarm considerations for intelligent motors/motor controls, drives, and electrical infrastructure integrated into process control systems will also be discussed as well as why electrical engineers who implement IEC 61850 [32] substation automation systems need to adhere to alarm management standards.
ISA 18.2 provides a framework and methodology for the successful design, implementation, operation and management of alarm systems and will allow end-users to address one of the fundamental conclusions of Bransby and Jenkinson that “Poor performance costs money in lost production and plant damage and weakens a very important line of defense against hazards to people.”
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- Start time: 04 Feb 2025 05:30 PM
- End time: 05 Feb 2025 09:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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- 2105 Citywest Place
- Houston, Texas
- United States 77042
- Building: Bechtel Energy Building #3
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Additional Contacts: Fariman Rasolkhani (713) 235-4867 and Nick Nichols (281) 435-4968
- Co-sponsored by Donald G. Dunn, FIEEE
- Starts 15 January 2025 12:00 AM
- Ends 04 February 2025 12:00 AM
- All times are (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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Speakers
Nick Sands of IEEE
Alarm Management Fundamentals
Poor alarm management is one of the leading causes of unplanned downtime, contributing to over $20B in lost production every year [1], and of major industrial incidents such as the one in Texas City (2005). Developing good alarm management practices is not a discrete activity, but more of a continuous process (i.e., it is more of a journey than a destination). This paper will describe the ISA -18.2 standard, “Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries” [21]. Example alarm considerations for intelligent motors/motor controls, drives, and electrical infrastructure integrated into process control systems will also be discussed as well as why electrical engineers who implement IEC 61850 [32] substation automation systems need to adhere to alarm management standards.
ISA 18.2 provides a framework and methodology for the successful design, implementation, operation and management of alarm systems and will allow end-users to address one of the fundamental conclusions of Bransby and Jenkinson that “Poor performance costs money in lost production and plant damage and weakens a very important line of defense against hazards to people.”
Biography:
Nicholas Sands (M’07) Mr. Sands holds the position of DuPont Fellow which is the highest technical recognition at DuPont, where he is the subject matter expert for safety instrumented systems, alarm management, and human machine interface design. He has worked in a number of businesses in his 33 years with DuPont. He is an ISA Fellow and a member of Control magazines Hall of Fame. For 19 years he co-chaired the ISA18 committee with Mr. Dunn and serves as secretary for the committee that maintains IEC 62682. He is a managing director for ISA84 on safety instrumented systems and a member of the IEC counterpart MT61511. He is also a member of ISA101 on human machine interfaces and a member of the IEC counterpart IEC 63303.
Address:Dallas, Texas, United States
Donald Dunn of IEEE
Alarm Management Fundamentals
Poor alarm management is one of the leading causes of unplanned downtime, contributing to over $20B in lost production every year [1], and of major industrial incidents such as the one in Texas City (2005). Developing good alarm management practices is not a discrete activity, but more of a continuous process (i.e., it is more of a journey than a destination). This paper will describe the ISA -18.2 standard, “Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries” [21]. Example alarm considerations for intelligent motors/motor controls, drives, and electrical infrastructure integrated into process control systems will also be discussed as well as why electrical engineers who implement IEC 61850 [32] substation automation systems need to adhere to alarm management standards.
ISA 18.2 provides a framework and methodology for the successful design, implementation, operation and management of alarm systems and will allow end-users to address one of the fundamental conclusions of Bransby and Jenkinson that “Poor performance costs money in lost production and plant damage and weakens a very important line of defense against hazards to people.”
Biography:
Donald G. Dunn (S’87-M’91-SM’99-F’22) Mr. Dunn is a Principal Consultant with WS Nelson providing services to the Refining, Chemical, and various other industries. He has held engineering and management positions at several major refining and chemical companies during his over 25-year career. He is currently a Fellow member of the IEEE and the ISA. He is a member of the IEEE, ISA, NFPA, API, and IEC standards development organizations. He co-chairs ISA18, chairs IEEE 841 & 841.1 and is the convener of IEC62682. Mr. Dunn served as the IEEE Houston Section chairman in 2001, 2002, 2006, 2011-2012, Vice President for the ISA Standards and Practices Board in 2011-2012, chairman of the IEEE IAS Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee (PCIC) 2012-2014 and chairman of the API Subcommittee on Electrical Equipment 2012-2015. In 2015, he was elected to serve a three-year term on the ISA Board of Directors and is the past chairman of the PCIC A&A subcommittee.
Address:Houston, Texas, United States
Agenda
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Dinner Served to all registered attendees.
6:15 pm - 6:30 pm: Annoucements
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm: Presentation
A QR code will be sent to all registered attendees for Garage 3 access will be sent. If you are carpooling, please just have the guest who will be driving, submit the form. Please complete the customized questions at the end of the registration form.