The $25,000 Secret

Recently, I posted “Book Triple Play” – a blog posting on how EPRI and PAS have collaborated to release a third version of the Alarm Management Handbook – following the Original Book and the ISA Version.

Well, Control Engineering sure found it interesting that The Alarm Management Handbook continues to penetrate new industry organizations and markets.

So Control Engineering did what those kind of organizations do – they interviewed the author, wrote up an article and did a podcast of the interview.

The podcast is an especially good short 4-minute introduction to Alarm Management – click here to listen to it.

Even if you know all about Alarm Management, it’s worth a listen to find out what makes the EPRI Guidelines different from the book and why you might choose to pay $25,000 for that versus $89 for the Original Book.

Wayne Crawford, program manager, operations management and technology at EPRI gives us a hint… “…demand for information on alarm management…” has grown and …we “decided to place significant time and effort into producing a report on alarm management specifically for our (power generation) industry.”

He goes on to say that PAS was enlisted to help EPRI co-author the work based on their demonstrated expertise in this area…

Exciting stuff,this Alarm Management business!

After all, where else can you buy a bestseller for $25,000 and still come out way ahead?

So what’s next??

Japanese & Chinese translations!

Stay tuned & then watch for them on www.amazon.jp and www.amazon.cn.

You might even get a Chinese copy for those quiet times at the Summer Olympics!

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