Similarity Analysis of Industrial Alarm Flood Data

Flooding of alarms is a very crucial problem in process industries. An alarm flood makes an operator ineffective of taking necessary actions, and often risking an emergency shutdown or a major upset. In this work, the flooding of alarms is discussed based on the standards presented in ISA 18.2. A new analysis method is proposed to investigate similar alarm floods from the historic alarm data and group them on the basis of the patterns of alarm occurrences. A case study on real industrial alarm data is also presented to demonstrate the utility of the proposed analysis.

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