Better than EEMUA?

One more blog on alarm management, and then I promise to move on…

Customers are sure loving The Alarm Management Handbook.  I guess it really meets a need and hit the mark.

Why the other day, an engineering executive at one of America's Top Five Oil Refining Companies (per the government’s own DOE ranking) wanted to order several hundred copies of the book for staff to read at each of their refineries world-wide. 

Books are selling well on Amazon, for sure, but not by lots of hundreds.  This is indeed encouraging feedback.

This Top Five exec said the Handbook was 10 times better than the EEMUA guide – and that at just half the price!

The EEMUA guide #191:99, published back in 1999, does provide a good set of industry standards as far what metrics go for a well-functioning alarm system, but it apparently doesn’t cut the mustard with this particular Top Five Refiner.

Maybe that’s why The Alarm Management Handbook is for sale on www.amazon.com and at Emerson’s DeltaV bookshop, but the EEMUA publication is not…

Industry whispers also suggest that other vendors in the industry also love the book, but just won’t say so in public… 

Even if they can’t claim to be the authority who “wrote the book” on Alarm Management, they can still join those “who read the book” and help us move the industry forward to safer and more reliable plant operations!

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