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Welcome to part two, introducing the Applied SmartFactory Alarm Management Solution. In this video, we’ll take a look at the key capabilities of the alarm management solution. The SmartFactory Alarm Management Solution manages the complete lifecycle of factory alarm events.
The solution is pre-integrated with other products in the SmartFactory software portfolio and can handle the alarms from these systems. Once an alarm is received, the alarm management solution can process it to ensure only relevant information is retained and recorded. Then, the processed information can be forwarded to the factory staff via configurable notifications.
Because the alarm management solution is pre-integrated with other SmartFactory software products, it’s possible to automate actions within those systems in response to specific alarms. And because all alarm information is consolidated within a common database, a comprehensive alarm dashboard is available, along with the ability to analyze the history of any alarm in the system. Let’s dig a bit deeper into each of these areas to see how it works.
The SmartFactory Alarm Management Solution is designed to be the common repository for all alarms from any SmartFactory system. This enables a standard process flow for managing any alarm from any SmartFactory system. Initial system configuration is simplified by the ability to bulk import alarm definitions from other alarm management solutions.
The SmartFactory Alarm Management System has a high-volume ingestion engine, allowing it to process over 500 unique alarms per second. Alarms can be automatically filtered for relevance and prioritized. Duplicate alarms can be removed, and false alarms can be blocked.
And when multiple overlapping alarms arrive from a single system, a best alarm rule can be defined to surface only the most relevant information. Notifications are a key feature of the SmartFactory Alarm Management Solution. While automating how alarms are received and filtered is useful, communicating the most important alarm information to the factory staff ensures prompt attention to serious problems and facilitates quick response and resolution.
The SmartFactory Alarm Management System can be configured to send notification emails or text messages to only the factory staff best suited to handle a given alarm. This eliminates the alarm information overload caused by bulk notifications to all factory staff for every alarm. In addition, an escalation process can be configured to forward alarm notifications to Tier 2 support staff in cases where there was no acknowledgment of the initial notification.
It’s often desirable to perform some action when a specific alarm occurs, such as putting a lot on hold or logging a tool down or preventing a new process run from starting on a tool. But this is extremely difficult to automate and typically done manually if it’s done at all. The SmartFactory Alarm Management Solution is pre-integrated with other systems within the SmartFactory software portfolio to simplify automating a variety of actions in response to any alarm.
Actions can be automatically triggered within the SmartFactory MES, equipment automation, the material control system, the run-to-run control system, and other SmartFactory systems as well. One of the most powerful capabilities enabled by the SmartFactory Alarm Management System’s centralized database is the ability to provide comprehensive alarm reporting. At the simplest level, the system provides a real-time, factory-wide alarm dashboard, allowing you to see the alarms currently active within the factory.
And because alarm information is preserved over time, alarm history can be queried to provide information that’s tailored for specific investigations. All alarm information is time-synchronized, allowing not only analysis of specific alarms over time, but also comparison of different alarms that occur in close-time proximity. The troubleshooting possibilities are endless for how alarm information can be viewed and analyzed.
To sum it all up, the SmartFactory Alarm Management Solution streamlines alarm management, providing a centralized solution that offers a consistent approach to how alarms are managed. The SmartFactory Alarm Management Solution is pre-integrated with other systems in the SmartFactory software portfolio to simplify alarm management across the factory. And the SmartFactory Alarm Management Solution automates how alarms are processed, how notifications are sent to factory staff, and how actions are triggered in response to specific alarms.
The SmartFactory Alarm Management Solution is the only solution you’ll need to streamline real-time alarm management factory-wide for faster response, quicker event resolution, and improved efficiency. It truly is smart alarm management. How can we help your factory? Contact us today for a free assessment of how you manage alarms, and how you might do it better.
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