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Webinar Recording: Best Practices for Alarm Management

Written by Contributing Authors | May 15, 2013 2:42:36 PM

 

Watch this recording of an ISA co-hosted webinar on alarm management, featuring industry experts Bill R. Hollifield, an industry veteran, ISA committee member and author of books on alarm management and HMI. and Paul Berwanger, a process control engineer with TCP Group and formerly a business development manager at MAVERICK Technologies, a Rockwell Automation company,

 

Learn how to whip your alarm system into shape. Two of the industry’s top alarm management experts share their insights – real engineers presenting real solutions and real results.

Topics include:

  • Approaches for new and existing systems
  • Seven steps to a highly effective alarm system
  • Alarm management justification
  • An overview of ISA-18.2, the alarm management standard

About the Presenter
Bill R. Hollifield, PAS principal alarm management and HMI consultant, is an industry veteran with international experience in all aspects of alarm management and HMI development for the petrochemical, power generation, pipeline, and mining industries. Bill is co-author of Alarm Management: A Comprehensive Guide, The Alarm Management HandbookThe High Performance HMI Handbook, and The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) guideline on Alarm Management. He is a member of the American Petroleum Institute's API RP-1167 Alarm Management Recommended Practice committee, the ISA18 Alarm Management committee, the ISA101 HMI committee, and the Engineering Equipment and Materials Users Association (EEMUA) Industry Review Group. Bill is a regular presenter on these topics in such venues as API, ISA, and Electric Power symposiums. He has a BSME from Louisiana Tech University and an MBA from the University of Houston.

 

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About the Presenter
Paul Berwanger is a process control engineer with TCP Group and formerly a business development manager at MAVERICK Technologies, a Rockwell Automation company,

 

 

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