Alarm Management

This comprehensive resource combines more than a decade of research with the experiences of many alarm management professionals to bring you field-proven methodologies that have helped industrial plants around the world improve their alarm management systems. This book describes how properly designed and maintained alarm systems can drastically help improve plant safety, reliability, and profitability. Using seven effective methods, the authors explain how you can improve the performance of your alarm systems, including benchmarking an alarm system performance against industry best practices, developing an alarm philosophy document, rationalizing alarms, and applying real-time alarm management optimization strategies. Whatever the nature of your alar...

This text is aimed at technicians, hobbyists, and students and provides complete circuit diagrams and building instructions for a wide range of creative sleuthing applications. The designs are fully tested and proven effective in real-world alarm, sensor, and security equipment. Among the circuits highlighted are a multi-purpose high-gain amplifier, temperature and pressure sensors, vibration and pyroelectric sensors, smoke and toxic gas detectors, tachometer/speed gauges, a remote video and control system, door and window alarms, motion and impact detectors and tone signalling sensors. Computer interfacing is also covered, with circuits for joystick, trackball, mouse, RS-232 and analog-to-digital interfaces....

TYPO3 is a popular, free, feature-rich open source content management system. It has the flexibility and scalability to more than match commercial systems and allow you to build a powerful and complex website. This book is the guide for all users of this powerful application. Written by experts and members of the core development team of TYPO3, this book is all you need to build, customize, and deploy TYPO3 websites. This book is aimed at both new and experienced users of TYPO3. Users, administrators, and developers of TYPO3 will all benefit from this comprehensive and authoritative guide....