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Industrial plant alarm management

US10523495B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

ABB Schweiz AG · CH

Inventors

Sam Ade Jacobs · Raleigh, US
Mithun P. Acharya · Cary, US
Veronika Domova · Västerås, SE
Marcel Dix · Mannheim, DE
Aldo Dagnino · Cary, US
Jinendra Gugaliya · Kanchinakote, IN
Kaushik Ghosh · Sherghati, IN

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 27, 2017
Grant date	Dec 31, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 3, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L41/0883
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of an alarm management system are disclosed herein. One exemplary embodiment is a method for monitoring an industrial plant comprising determining a sequence of alarm events for each of a plurality of time intervals including a first alarm event of a plurality of alarm events and a second alarm event of the plurality of alarm events; determining a count of the first alarm events and second alarm events; determining the alarm events exceed a support threshold value; determining a third count of a sub-sequence of the sequences of alarm events including the first alarm event followed by the second alarm event in response to determining the first count and the second count exceeds the support threshold value; determining a ratio using the first count, the second count, and the third count exceeds a display threshold value; and displaying the sub-sequence.

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