3. Who is ... UReason is specialised in the development and deployment of intelligente alarm management systems UReason developed its own “leading edge” technology, based on many years of experience in alarm handling in different industries UReason is an international company with headquarters in Leiden Next generation alarm management
9. Why OASYS-AM can be classified as a next generation alarm system Next generation alarm management
10. Advantages of OASYS-AM Increase uptime / reduce downtime Reduce time to repair or maintain Extend life cycle of assets Reduce time to diagnose root cause Minimising the influence of an upset to adjacent business processes Reduce workload of operators Comply to current and future guidelines and/or legislation Avoid hazardous situations and resulting claims and penalties Reduce number of operators Next generation alarm management
14. Northsea Oil & Gas Assets Alarm reduction on 4 platforms between 25% - 60% Achieving Operational Excellence OASYS-AM
15. Chemical plant Proactive 24x7 information on gas leaks Operators don’t have to do a 12 hours plant inspection Important for keeping licence to operate
16. More advantages OASYS-AM provides the possibility to optimise the entire process/workflow OASYS-AM supplies engineering and play-back facility OASYS-AM is based on EEMUA Publication 191 Next generation alarm management
This is a sample alarm from a DCS. It shows a low level alarm on a reservoir. This is what alarm systems usually do: indicate a measured value passing a limit. Or This is what we call an operational advisory. It refers to the bigger picture (the compressor train), it informs the operator he is running on fuel, not on gas and it advises the operator to take an action, either switch back to gas or fuel up within a given time frame. I would know what I would like to see. But you know what? This not just any sample alarm of an imaginery DCS. The first message is an example from a customer data log we analysed. And you know what? This message did not appear in the log! We suspect it was rationalised away. So, the next message we did found in the log was: no fuel (the low-low limit), which implied practically immediately, no power, and a compressor trip, resulting in bunch more alarms. Of course we built logic to alarm the operator. Why was it built in UReason software? Well, making an association between tag information, the related asset and the connected assets of that asset, is something a DCS is not designed for. Forget about what DCS vendors and other vendors might tell you. Our customers tell us: there is only so much you can do in the DCS, it takes too much effort and we can hardly maintain it. Note that with modern technology, you can click on a hyperlink and go to the asset, to the underlying information or to the operating instructions.
This is a picture taken from the Rotterdam Shell Refinery. This big blast was caused by a drop of the power lines. Not something our software can prevent, but it resulted in a bunch of alarm messages which could be rolled up under ‘External Power Supply dropped’.