Honeywell Forge Alarm Management | Documentation

Without managing alarm configuration, a plant will deviate from design, resulting in more alarms and an increased risk of incidents. The resulting alarm floods and upset conditions can be catastrophic. An alarm designed to standards includes the causes, consequence of no action and required operator response. In many cases, this is not readily available to an operator when they need it most.

The Documentation module of Honeywell Forge Alarm Management (previously known as DynAMo® Documentation & Enforcement) provides alarm system documentation, ongoing enforcement of limits, integrated alarm help with built-in operator assistance, change management reporting, and alarm system rationalization capabilities. The Documentation module is vendor-neutral, and helps users create and maintain the master alarm and boundary database for a distributed control system (DCS). It enables users to automatically import alarm configuration information from DCS, human machine interfaces (HMIs), PLCs and other systems. It also allows mode-based alarming via its documentation and rationalization functions, assisting the plant in optimizing alarm system support for the operator.

The software provides several benefits to users, including:

• Reduced time and effort to develop, deploy and maintain an alarm system consistent with best practices defined by the Abnormal Situation Management (ASM®) Consortium
• Reduced risk of process upsets due to invalid alarm system parameters
• Improved regulatory compliance
• Sustained alarm system performance