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Alarm management
- Alarm management — section index
- Why alarm floods happen, and why they happen at the worst moment
- Rationalisation: deciding which alarms deserve to exist
- Priority allocation, and why most systems have too many high alarms
- The alarm metrics worth reporting monthly
- Standing alarms, and the list that is permanently red
- Shelving, suppression and the difference that matters
- Presenting alarms so the operator can act on them
- Auditing an alarm system you have inherited
Operator displays
- Operator displays — section index
- Designing an operator display that answers a question
- The display hierarchy, and why level one is usually missing
- Colour, contrast and the control room environment
- Trends: the difference between a value and a direction
- Navigation: getting to the right screen in one action
- Displays for startup, shutdown and abnormal events
- Writing a display style guide people will follow
- Modernising displays without a control system replacement
Historian and data
- Historian and data — section index
- Deciding what to record, and what recording everything costs
- Compression: what the historian threw away and when it matters
- Retention, archiving and the data that has to still be there
- Timestamps: when two systems disagree about what happened first
- Bad values, and the reports that quietly include them
- Giving process data context: batches, states and equipment
- Producing a number somebody will trust
- Moving a historian without losing the history
Commissioning and change
- Commissioning and change — section index
- Loop checking that is actually a check
- Factory acceptance testing that finds problems
- Handover that leaves operations able to run the plant
- Control narratives written for the person who inherits them
- A change process people will use at two in the morning
- Documentation that still matches the plant
- Punch lists, and the items that are still open three years later
- Proving that alarms and interlocks actually work
Running the system
- Running the system — section index
- Obsolescence: planning for the system you cannot buy any more
- Spares for a system that is no longer manufactured
- Backups you have actually restored
- Separating the control network from everything else
- Remote access that does not become a permanent open door
- Patching a system that cannot be taken down
- Training operators for the situations that are rare
- Shift handover in a control room