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Alarm Management in Process Control

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Alarm Management in Process Control

Course Title	Start Date	End Date	Venue	Fees (US $)

Introduction

Currently, process plants face significant challenges that significantly affect their productivity, efficiency, product quality, safety, integrity, and security. A well design alarm management system can address these challenges whereas a poorly designed alarm management system can cause serious consequences and also become a nuisance to plant operators and other personnel. Plants personnel dealing with the above issues need to attend this course lo learn and apply best practices of alarm management using real-world examples and tools. Delegates will return to their jobs not only with a better understanding of alarm management best practices but equipped with a set of practical set of techniques, procedures, and tools to optimize their alarm management system to increase the productivity, efficiency, product quality, safety, integrity, and security of their processes.

This training course will highlight:

A Review of P & ID Diagrams, Process Control, and Process Safeguarding
Alarm Management Principles and Alarm Philosophy
Alarm Identification and Rationalization
Alarm Design, Implementation, Operation and Maintenance
Alarm Performance Monitoring and Assessment
Use of Hands-on Tools for Alarm Rationalization, Design, Implementation, and Operation

Objectives

At the end of this training course, you will learn to:

Understand the fundamentals of Alarm Management and Alarm Philosophy
Apply procedures for Alarm Rationalization
Apply procedures for Alarm Design, Implementation, Operation and Maintenance
Apply procedures for Alarm Performance Monitoring and Assessment
Implement Alarm Management Procedures using hands-on tools

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

This Alarm Management training course should be of interest to a wide range of professionals interested in learning and applying alarm management for improving the productivity, efficiency, product quality, safety, integrity, and security of their processes.

This training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

Automation, Chemical, and Process Engineers
Installation and Maintenance Technicians
Instrumentation and Control Engineers
Process Operators
Production and Project Managers
Other Professionals who want a better understanding of the subject matter

Course Outline

Day 1: Introduction to Alarm Management and a Review of P&ID and Process Control Safeguarding

What is Alarm Management?
Main standards for Alarm Management: ISA 18.2, EEMUA 191, IEC 62682
Review of P & ID Diagrams
Review of Process Control Systems, BPCS
Review of Process Control Safeguarding
- Hazard Analysis
- Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)
- Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
- Safeguarding Examples
Alarm Management as a layer of LOPA
Benefits of Alarm Management

Day 2: Alarm Issues, Alarm Principles, and Philosophy

What is an Alarm?
Alarm Issues
- Alarm Proliferation
- Nuisance Alarms
- Operator Overload
Alarm Management Principles
Alarm Management Philosophy
Alarm Philosophy Document
Alarm Management Lifecycle
Alarm Identification

Day 3: Alarm Rationalization

Alarm Objective Analysis
Documenting Operator Response Time
Assigning Alarm Priorities
Classifying Alarms
Defining Alarm Attributes
Assessing the Need of Advanced Alarming
Procedures and Configuration Examples

Day 4: Alarm Design, Implementation, Operation and Maintenance

Basic Alarm Design
- Application of Alarm Deadband (hysteresis)
- Application of On / Off Delays
- Alarms and Interlocks
- SIS / ESD Alarms
HMIs for Alarms
Advanced Alarm Design: Dynamic Alarm Suppression
Alarm System Testing
Alarm Maintenance
Alarm Dhelving
Alarm Response Procedures

Day 5: Alarm Performance Monitoring and Assessment

Alarm Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Alarm System Performance Reporting
Alarm Analysis
- Annunciated Alarm Rate
- Alarm Floods
- Out of Service Alarms
- Chattering, Redundant, Shelved Alarms
Alarm Reporting
Alarm Audits

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Documentation :

Quality material has been prepared by the seminar leader for distribution to delegates in addition a special note pad to facilitate note talking will be provided

Schedule :

Starting Time Ending Time Action

07:45 08:00 Breakfast

08:00 10:45 First Session

10:45 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 12:45 Second Session

12:45 13:15 Coffee Break

13:15 14:45 Third Session

14:45 15:30 Lunch

15:30 16:30 Open Session

Certificates :

A certificate of attendance will be issued to those who attended and successful complete the program

Hotel Accommodation :

PETC has negotiated special rates for a limited number of rooms in the hotel .Early registration will help to secure a room at the reduced rate.

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If a confirmed registration is cancelled less than 10 calendar days prior to the program start date, a substitute participant may be nominated to attend the same program, or a 20% cancellation charge is applied. The same 20% cancellation fee will be charged in case the participant is a no-show. For more information regarding administrative policies such as refund and complaint, please contact PETC Training & Consulting Head Office at +971 2 6911886

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This special discount will apply to the 10th paid nomination onwards on programs offered during this year. Moreover, clients who nominated 10 or more participants in the previous year will be eligible for the 10% discount for every nomination this year.

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In addition to the above plan, one extra free place is offered to any organization that makes 2 paid nominations for the same program and dates.

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All nominations to our public events are to be processed by the client's HR/Training department.

Self-Nominations to our public events are to be paid in advance using the payment by self option on the online registration form. A refund will be issued back to the client in the event of program cancellation or seat unavailability.

Registration confirmation is subject to PETC review of registration request and seat availability.

Cancellation Terms

If a confirmed registration is cancelled less than 10 calendar days prior to the program start date, a substitute participant may be nominated to attend the same program, or a 20% cancellation charge is applied. The same 20% cancellation fee will be charged in case the participant is a no-show.

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Starting Time	Ending Time	Action
07:45	08:00	Breakfast
08:00	10:45	First Session
10:45	11:00	Coffee Break
11:00	12:45	Second Session
12:45	13:15	Coffee Break
13:15	14:45	Third Session
14:45	15:30	Lunch
15:30	16:30	Open Session

Alarm Management in Process Control

Alarm Management in Process Control

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Training Methodology

Who Should Attend?

Course Outline

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