Re: [foxboro] FoxPage

We also have been using FoxPage for about 3 years successfully.  There 
were a few growing pains.  We are sending critical alarms to operators so 
they can walk about the plants doing their checks.   The way we have it 
setup, operators can also use the Foxboro DM SYS menu to pick on a Page 
menu item and send out a manual text page.

I  use FoxPage for system monitor messages, which let's me know what's 
going on with the system.  I don't use the OAJ scripts at this time.

I have the same caveat as Roger.  Also, watch out for overloading your 
queue and creating a condition where it takes 5 minutes to get an alarm 
out.   Another thing to watch out for is when you upgrade to a new version 
of I/A.  The new install creates generic default scripts, so save your 
original scripts and pager lists.  If the upgrade plan is followed, then 
this shouldn't be an issue.

Take care,
Wally Magda
Instrumentation & Control Specialist
Colorado Springs Utilities
Operations Division/Water Treatment
PO Box 214
660 W. Monument Creek Rd
USAF Academy, CO   80840
phone:  719-668-9502 
fax:  719-668-0502
e-mail:  wmagda@xxxxxxx 




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We have been using FoxPage for about 5 years and find it quite useful.  We
are not really sending alarms to operators at this time though.  Several 
of
our systems monitor unmanned, remote storm water treatment facilities via
integrators/gateways.   We use FoxPage to dispatch water sampling crews 
and
others when the remote facilities call for them.  Additionally, the 
Foxboro
piece of FoxPage (alm2unix which is now call Event Activated Scripts) is a
great general purpose tool for having Control Processors kick off
programs/scripts on an AP/AW.  We also use the facility to capture 
specific
data during storm events and for other purposes.

One caveat is that paging can be unreliable.  There is no real way of
knowing if the pager receives the page or not.  You may want to institute 
a
system of resending the page until the "alarm" is acknowledged.  This is 
not
too difficult to do on the IA system and we did it at one time but no
longer.  Additionally, the latest version of the Pagemate software (the
third party paging software Foxboro packages with FoxPage) has some
capabilities in this area also. 

Roger B. Smith
Process Control Engineering
Waste Water Services
City of Atlanta

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Hi list,

We are considering issuing our Operators with Pagers and sending alarm
messages
to them from our Foxboro DCS.  Has anyone had any successful experience
using
FoxPage or any other system.

Thanks
Colin Major    EVC (UK) Ltd




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