We wrote the book on that!

As I have mentioned before, PAS was first with alarm management software, and now re-asserts its position as The Global Alarm Authority with this book.

    

The book is co-authored by a couple of Alarm Management authorities – PAS Founder & CEO, Eddie Habibi, and PAS Principal Alarm Management Consultant, Bill Hollifield and is based on PAS’s collective expertise & insights from completing hundreds of alarm management projects over the last decade.

    

So besides asserting our rightful leadership position, why write a book?

   

We believe that by sharing best practices and how-to details with the industry, we can help increase safety and reliability in the process industries.

      

If nothing else, we’ll at least raise awareness of how important proper alarm management is, and maybe, just maybe help avoid a situation like that of BP Texas City, where the wrong combination a level, an operator and an alarm meant that cost 15 people their lives last year.

   

<< Check out the animation of the BP incident – well worth viewing.  If this link does not work for you, it is also available as the first link on the BP Texas City page referenced above. >>

   

Back to our book and our aim to help the process industries, we have included step-by-step instructions for developing an alarm philosophy, rationalizing existing alarm systems and even a section on real-time alarm management. 

   

But why is PAS “giving away” the value that we might otherwise sell?

   

It’s because we believe that those who give and seek to help others will also receive.  And even though a pro-active position to share our learnings with the world could cost us potential business, we believe that it will bring about more value over the long term. 

    

There’s already too many secrets in our industry anyway, and so if PAS can help out by sharing, we’re all for that – especially if it can help save lives!

   

Want your own copy of the book?  You can request an advance copy or just wait a few weeks until it is up for sale on Amazon.com. I’ll fill you in on the details for that later.

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