Re: [foxboro] Alarm Capture

Have you looked at the Alarm Printer Simulator software by Feed Forward
Inc.?  You can find this at the following site:
http://www.feedforward.com/downloads.htm .  I use it here with my legacy
historian running on AW51B ver 6.3 and it includes the alarm priority.  Each
day I have a script run to create a new alarm file.  The file is in CSV
format and can be easily imported into Excel.
 
 
 
>>> gop@xxxxxxxx 3/20/2004 4:25:06 AM >>>

Is there a user option to configure the alarm printouts in Fox I/A ? 

The alarm printing format is embedded somewhere in the base software . 

We have tested various alarm capture packages to convert the alarm text
dump
to useful data, 

but so far we could not come up with a perfect solution . There are ways
to
extract the alarms 

from the Alarm History using AIM*AT packages , but this is not good
replacement for the 

real-time alarm printers . At the same time , alarms captured from a
printer
port does not 

contain alarm priority , which is an important information for analysis. 

Is there a way to customize the format in which the alarm printers print ?
Can we include 

the alarm priority as well in the printout ? How does the printer
recognize
1st priority alarms 

and print them in a different color ? If this is a printer command, could
we
extract this 

information from the COM ports ? 

________________ 

Thanks &Regards, 

GOPS 

Aramco Mobil Refinery 


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