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manage plant upsets. Industry incident investigations have shown that time is the most critical factor in a console operators ability to deal with abnormal situations. They must often be able to take action within seconds in order to safely mitigate the impact of an upset. PAS is the original alarm management software and engineering services company. Our extensive experience in this eld has resulted in software that improves the safety and protability of plants worldwide. Industry leaders around the world have selected PAS as their preferred solution provider to improve the performance of their alarm systems.
PAS pioneered alarm management software in 1993. Our more than 200 years of cumulative alarm management experience has resulted in software that improves the safety and protability of processing and power generation plants worldwide.
PSS Alarm Advanced Elements extend the rigor and comprehensiveness of your alarm management program. Due to the real-time nature of these applications, they have been designed to work together. PSS Alarm Advanced Elements ensure the operator receives clear, relevant, and timely alarm information to effectively operate the plant. The PSS Alarm Advanced Elements include: PSS Audit and Enforce monitors changes in control system parameters and enables the restoration of approved values if any have changed. Audits may be scheduled or triggered by a pre-dened event. This provides a method to maintain alarm settings or ensure specic conditions are met upon a specic event. Exception reporting is provided in either case. PSS Alarm Shelving provides the ability to temporarily disable nuisance alarms, and generate reports to facilitate corrective action. Operators can safely shelve repeatedly activated alarms, and after a congurable period, they will be automatically re-enabled. PSS Documentation and Rationalization provides a comprehensive platform for capturing causes, consequences, corrective actions, and time to respond information related to process alarms. It can be customized to meet the sites alarm management philosophy and strategies. PSS Dynamic Alarming detects the current operating state of the plant and dynamically modies alarm settings based on that state. This dynamic approach keeps the information to the operator concise and reduces the amount of distractions. This provides a consistent approach to achieving EEMUA and ISA best practices for real-time alarm management.
Integrity Integration
PlantState Suite (PSS) now integrates with PAS Integrity Software. Integrity maps the Automation Genome, which is the collective conguration within and among all automation systems in a plant. The integration allows users to launch and display Integrity from PSS based on specic context. All Integrity functionality is able to be displayed, including control maps, LoopSheets, and defect nder.