The ORIGINAL Alarm Management Company!
In several previous postings and our website, PAS is referenced as “The Alarm Management Authority” and “The Original Alarm Management Company”.
These claims were not made lightly and it now seems that some other company wishes to try and make this claim for themselves…
Tsk, tsk – not only is this not nice, but also not true…
Let’s set the record straight, shall we?
Back in 1996, PAS was the only company delivering alarm management software and services to rationalize and optimize existing alarm system configurations at customer sites with the goal of providing fewer and more meaningful alarms in time of need.
We entered this business because customers found that the easy-to-configure alarm system functionality in their DCS systems was… well… just a bit too easy to do, resulting in too many alarms being configured, disabled or whatever. The end result left the operator overwhelmed with alarms in periods of critical operation – just when he needed specific guidance and not 100+ alarms telling him the same thing.
This problem did not go unnoticed by others in the industry either – it’s just that they had alternative approaches, including electronic capture of alarms with printer port logging software as a means to reduce the paper output from the alarm printer.
This was a great innovation at the time, since the DCS alarm printers were having a hard time keeping up with all those newly-configured alarms that were generated when things started to go bad in the plant.
But capturing data and actively doing something to improve the situation are two different things. 
And now – in response to the wake-up of our marketing machine, publishing the authoritative book on the topic, and claiming our rightful position – now they want to re-classify electronic alarm “capture” as alarm ”management” so they can be first.
Nice try, guys, but let’s stick to the facts.
Alarm Management is about managing a situation, not just replacing a printer. This is true today, and equally true back in 1996, 1994 or even 1990.
And that’s why PAS holds the title of “The Original Alarm Management Company”. We were first to provide alarm management services and commercial alarm management software in 1996. See my other posting on that…
I guess that’s why we “wrote the book” on Alarm Management.
Our recently-published textbook is available on Amazon, the Emerson Delta-V bookshop, and soon
to be distributed (or even republished?) by others in our industry as well.
Others may claim to be first for Alarm Data Capture, but we stand firm in our claim to the Original Alarm Management Company – supported by over a decade of both service and software offerings… and many satisfied customers.
Just thought I’d clear the air…
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