Leading paths to greater awareness, faster response and better decisions

Handling the unplanned outages has become the number-one priority for many companies today.

On an average, operators deal with thousands of alarms per day. 

Hence, they should face no more than two alarms per 10-minute period

but alarm overload distracts the operators and often causes unplanned downtime.

For maximum plant performance, high performance HMI and advanced alarm management

helps to improve the operator’s tools and work environment.

An ABB case study reveals savings of more than $800.000 from upgrading to a high performance HMI.

• Bubble-up alarming allows the alarm with the highest priority to ‘bubble up’ 

above lower priority alarms associated with the same device

• Integrated help displays in the form of pop-ups

• Extendable faceplates put all the information the operator needs in one place

• Level 1 surveillance of the entire plant or unit in one graphic to facilitate

rapid visualization of the entire process, as well as KPIs

• Level 2 visualization of specific parts of the process, providing alarms,

information and controls for each area and easy navigation to level 3 graphics (P&ID style displays)

• Alarm macros for condition-based alarming, if each alarm condition needs to be managed individually