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Alarm management has increasingly become a hot topic over recent years, not least because of a number of high-profile accidents where alarms have been implicated. It often requires significant investment in time and resources when applied to an existing control system and there is a need for continuing review for it to remain effective. Yet an increasing number of companies are embracing alarm management for one or more reasons. So what are these reasons, why manage alarms given all the other conflicting pressures on time, and what are the benefits for those who make the journey?

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This blog was originally posted by Yokogawa.

The monitoring of safety instrumented systems (SIS) is becoming more relevant to organizations in today’s process industries. Most are actively gathering some form of measurement to record and assess safety system performance. However, is this information accurate, reliable and fully inclusive to have real certainty to monitor safety system performance?

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Fired Heater is widely used in oil refining and petrochemical industry providing heat for a main process or cracking reaction by fuel combustion.

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What is the Users Conference?  

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Density is a physical property of matter, and by knowing the density of a mixture you can often infer other properties of the mixture. The vibrating element method is one way of measuring the density of a gas that can be used in power, pulp and paper, refining, and chemical industries.

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A solution that is both easy to install and cost effective 

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it has added a network function to the UM33A digital indicator with alarms, a product in the UTAdvanced controller series, and will release this to the market on May 7.

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Yokogawa just released their new brochure that features their entire product line. 

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Process safety is a major concern and when not managed effectively, potential scenarios can have tragic consequences to personnel, the environment, and company assets. Compliance with regulations and standards require owners to maintain, test and evaluate their safety systems. With proper planning of safety requirements, implementing a safety solution can improve your risk reduction and help quantify the benefits of a safety instrumented system.

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The object of control system migration is not to replicate your existing system and just keep things the way they are, but to bring in new technologies, functions, and features that will make it possible for you to operate your plant more efficiently and profitably. It’s an opportunity to benefit from the latest process control system technology available on the market today.

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