• Honeywell Automation India Limited

Alarm Management Technology

Honeywell Process Solutions has launched DynAMo™ Alarm Management Technology. This is improving safety and productivity at more than 100 process plants and pipelines around the world by helping operators better and more quickly evaluate alarm situations in control rooms. Plants and pipelines are increasingly relying on numerous automation systems, which can produce more than 1,000 system alarms in a given day. The number of alarms can often overwhelm operators, a problem that leads to lower production and increased safety incidents that cost the process industry billions of dollars every year, according to the Abnormal Situation Management® (ASM) Consortium, an industry group dedicated to advancing process technology.

The DynAMo solution allows plant operators to tune out noise and focus on critical situations by more efficiently managing and evaluating alarms. It allows operators to more easily detect and prevent problems, and to develop and implement effective alarm management strategies aligned with industry-recognized guidelines and standards. DynAMo is based on Honeywell's 20-plus years of alarm management experience in the process industries. DynAMo reduces control room alarms by up to 80 per cent by allowing operators to create customisable dashboards on computers or mobile devices that allow them to view the alarm system health at a glance. This allows operators to better and more quickly diagnosis alarms and their causes and consequence on one console.