Are your operations teams spending too much time addressing bad-actor alarms? Is consolidating alarms in your spreadsheets slowing down your alarm rationalization efforts? Can your current alarm management tools rationalize over 500 alarms in a single day?

Operations teams are seeking a tool that helps them rationalize alarms by documenting, reviewing, and confirming that all alarms meet the criteria for being an alarm – and can be deployed quickly.

ABB’s Remote Alarm Rationalization Tool (ART) is that solution.

Cloud-based

• Accessible via the web
• Hardware-free
• No direct continuous connection required

Actionable insights 

• Designed for plants experiencing manual constraints while using spreadsheets
• Fosters better collaboration and scalability

Central management 

• Centralized management for better coordination of efforts
• Integrates with other data and software
  

Rapid deployment 

• Easy to implement in under a week
• Allows for both small rationalization successes while allowing businesses to adjust their processes for implementing alarm changes
  

The challenge

The setpoint for alarms is usually calculated based on process conditions or prior experience. Determining setpoints during meetings dramatically increases the time required to rationalize alarms (more than two minutes per unique alarm).