Once your Maintenance Program is in place and running, you want your Alarm Management program to monitor the HEALTH STATES of your Wells and Facilities, using SMART EVENTS to warn you of abnormal condition, and SMART ALARMS to warn you to “get an operator to the well” to prevent if from going down, or get it back up fast!
You want to use highly intelligent SMART alarms and events as part of your maintenance CONDITION MONITORING and FAILURE ANALYSIS strategies, to assure you are always keeping an eye on each skid, piece of equipment, and facility, and balancing the extent and costs of your preventative maintenance program with the current conditions of your facilities. You can use smart alarms and smart events to lock into each specific piece of equipment to maximize performance and reduce costs.
HEALTH STATES track your well or facility from NORMAL to DOWN, and can identify intermediate states like WELL OPTIMIZATION and SURFACE and SUBSURFACE EQUIPMENT FAILURES.
HEALTH STATES are triggered by SMART ALARMS and SMART EVENTS
Alarms and Events are “SMART” because they EQUATIONS with MORE THAN ONE VARIABLE. By using equations with multiple variables you have CONTEXT and MEANINGFUL events and alarms; unlike traditional set point alarms that have no context and can generate numerous false alarms.
By CONSOLIDATING your OPERATIONAL DATA across wells, facilities, SCADA, Process Control Systems, and Third Party Packages and Cloud Systems, you can also do CROSS FACILITY SMART ALARMS and SMART EVENTS! You can verify pump status at a battery to verify if the drop in pressure in the downstream pipe is really a leak. The consolidation of your operational data creates an “abstraction layer” between all technical, automation, and equipment diversity in your fields, and allows you to use common health states, smart alarms, and smart events.
