Maybe it's the two-hour time difference that messed us up. Maybe it's just that the Control/Control Design editorial team never gets tired. But here is a PS to our "last post" of the day. Don't miss these either.

Concoco/Phillips & Mustang Engineering on Safer Alarm Management

Virtual Environments at Geismar

 Enjoy.

The ASM consortium has released the second volume of its research and conclusions. Here's the press release from Honeywell:

PAS announces the immediate release of Plant State Suite Version 6.3, for comprehensive alarm and control loop performance management, helping to improve plant safety, productivity, and reliability.
 

We'd like to present Todd Stauffer, of exida, in his first
 ever podcast. This was produced by exida, and is called "Saved by the
 Bell: a look at ISA's new standard on alarm management." 
This podcast reviews ISA18.2 in detail...

Here's a press release from ISA... and a question from me afterwards...

From the press release:

PAS Introduces Operator Alert – An Essential Supplement to an Alarm System
 
Operator Alert provides an easy-to-use web interface for creating & editing alerts for managing process operations
 
 
Houston, TX – May 6, 2008 – PAS, a leading global supplier of software products and engineering consulting services for the process industries, today announced the release of Operator Alert, a new addition to its already successful critical condition management products....

Well, let's see who's awake and interested this morning...

Here's an interesting question that surfaced on the SCADA listserv this weekend.

Is alarm management for DCS (as most recently codified in the new EEMUA guidelines) the same as alarm management for SCADA systems? Are the criteria for number and type of alarms per unit time the same?

Aslan Muhamad Sufian, from TNB Transmission in Malaysia, says, "I think this guideline is more suitable for DCS. The EEMUA 191 states that the alarm arriv...

From the press release:

In 2008, TiPS celebrates 20 years in the field of alarm management. It all started with a seemingly innocent consulting job to, "Do something about that @#!& printer!" The solution was a custom-written software program, widely recognized today as LogMate. Today LogMate is much more advanced than it was back then, but TiPS owes 20 years of success to the little program that could.

Robert Weibel, President of TiPS, Incorporated, has been a part of the com...

I'm on vacation, but I'm not dead...

This was in The Scotsman today.

The explosion that destroyed the ICL plastics plant in Glasgow Scotland on 11 May 2004 was caused by an LPG line that leaked into a basement that was being used as a storage locker by a contractor, who was killed along with several other workers when he went into the basement and...

Last week, Transpara, the innovative startup founded and led by Michael Saucier, announced support for Apple's new iPhone:

Transpara Corporation, the leading provider of mobile, composite Key Performance Indicator (KPI) software, today announced support for the Apple® iPhone.

Visual KPI provides customers in the manufacturing and utility sectors with on-demand operations data using the Safari browser of the iPhone. Tailored to fit the iPhone screen and built on the fa...