Major Petrochemical Group Relies on Plant Historian Alarm Management & Alarm Rationalization
>> F A C T S
Since 2016 Plant Historian AM (Alarm Management) - and since 2018 in combination with the module Plant Historian AR (Alarm Rationalization) - has been used in one of the most important oil refineries in the German-speaking world. Approx. 2000 employees work at the site.
>> Initial situation:
A wide variety of process control systems and controllers from different manufacturers are in use - ABB Symphony and Foxboro I/A, safety-related controllers such as HIMA HiMax and Invensys Triconex. For the more than 120,000 daily messages in 3 plants, there was no operational message monitoring and no way to intuitively evaluate alarm frequencies or alarm duration [...]