Re: [foxboro] Alarm manager documentation

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:34:55PM -0400, tom.vandewater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Stan,
>       I haven't noticed that anyone has mentioned using the Common
> Alarm Group to meet your needs.  Even before we centralized our control
> room we used this functionality to allow cross-functional ability to
> acknowledge, silence horn, and clear alarms at two or more workstations.
> Here is an example of what is possible with this tool.
> In Area One of a plant that is controlled from one control room:
> 
> Operating Seat 1 controls Process 1, 2, and 3 using 01WP01
> Operating Seat 2 controls Process 4, 5, and 6 using 01WP02
> 
> Alarms are sent from all compounds controlling Processes 1-6 to GRP 1
> Which contain both 01WP01 and 01WP02 as GRP 1 Devices.  This means that
> any alarm in Processes 1-6 will show up at, and audibly alarm at both
> 01WP01 and 01WP02.
> (If you want 01WP01 to receive only Process 1-3 alarms, but 01WP02 to
> receive Process 1-6 alarms, don't include 01WP01 as a device in Process
> 4-6 compounds)
> 

Intersting, but I don;t really thnk that our alarms lend themselves very
well to filtering. Poor design perhaps, but that's where we are.

Still, an iformative set of information.

Thanks.
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