Safety in automation processes through alarms and events management

World Congress on Industrial Automation

July 20-22, 2015 San Francisco, USA

Diego Silva

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Adv Robot Autom

Abstract :

As information technology advances, it makes possible improvements in the monitoring of industrial processes, improving safety and the management of engineering assets. The ANSI / API recommended practice 754 - 2010, sets new safety standards of the processes based on the monitoring of several protective barriers of a typical industry, such as, instrumented safety system, ESD (Emergency Shut Down), SDV's (Shutdown Valve), BDV (Blow down valve), alarm systems, operating activities, among others. The standard encourages the companies to create their own monitoring indices to minimize the probability of failure of such systems. In this talk we present the construction of a number of indicators for use in the oil and gas industry based on the information of alarms and events generated by the alarm system. We will also show how they are related to the fault detection and the overall security of the involved processes.