User Guide

Alarm Management
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Overview of Alarm Handling
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Siemens User Guide Version 2.1
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Appearance and Behavior
 Each step has the same color as the event's category. When you select a step,
it expands and changes to a darker color to indicate that it is being executed.
Once you complete a step and a graphic icon indicates the execution outcome
of that step (successful or failed).
 You must execute the first mandatory step before the ensuing mandatory steps
can be selected and executed.
 Whether the steps must be executed sequentially, or may instead be free
executed in any order, depends on how the assisted-procedure was
configured.
 During the execution of an assisted procedure, when you move your cursor
over a step:
– If it turns into hand, this means that you can execute the step.
– If it turns into arrow, this means that you cannot execute the step because
it is locked. This may happen if a preceding mandatory step has not been
executed yet, or during the execution of sequential steps.
 Once you have completed all the actions required by a step, the gray check
box turns white and you can mark that step as completed.
 The system provides the following details of a step in a tooltip: name, execution
type (
mandatory or optional ), type ( automatic or manual ), state ( unknown ,
successful , or failed ), and notes (error message, if any). Also, once a step is
executed, the name of the operator who executed the step displays in the
tooltip. If a step fails, an error message displays in the tooltip or in the window
status bar.
5.5.8.2 Assisted Treatment Steps
Possible steps in Assisted Treatment include:
 Alarm printout [➙ 123]: Print details of an event.
 Document Viewer [➙ 121]: View instructions or other important information
contained in a document file or web page.
 Graphics [➙ 48]: Check a graphic of the area where the event occurred.
 Reno [➙ 121]: Send important event detail information via remote notification
message.
 Report: [➙ 123] Generate and print a report.
 Alarm-handling form [➙ 124]: View and enter event handling information in a
report for operating procedures.
5.5.9 Handling Events
Use the following to ensure that you completed alarm handling.
1. To handle an alarm start either:
– Fast Treatment [➙ 112]
– Investigative Treatment [➙ 118]
– Assisted Treatment [➙ 119]
2. Follow the recommended alarm handling procedure (Fast [➙ 117],
Investigative [➙ 119], or Assisted [➙ 119]).
3. Log [➙ 115] an event note in the history database, if desired.
4. Close [➙ 113] the event or suspend [➙ 113] it.
The following sections describe alarm handling operating tasks in details.