Alarm control apparatus

• US 7,893,824 B2
• Filed: 05/04/2006
• Issued: 02/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Okada, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Tai T
• Application Number:
  US11/429,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20060255926A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,755 Days
• Field of Search: 340/506, 340/511, 340/532, 340/538, 340/3.1, 702/182, 702/186, 702/188, 702/179
• US Class Current: 340/506
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0267 Fault communication, e.g. human machine interface [HMI]
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 26/00 Alarm systems in which substations are interrogated in succession by a central station

Abstract

An alarm control apparatus which collects alarms from an equipment of a plant and handles the alarms includes a support information collecting section which adds support information for managing the equipment to the alarms.

Claims

1. An alarm control apparatus, comprising:

a data collecting and processing section which collects alarm data generated from an equipment and collects additional support information of the equipment; and

a normalizing section which normalizes the alarms and the support information into a common format, wherein

the normalizing section converts the alarms and the support information into the common format which is sectioned by a markup language.

2. The alarm control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the support information is information being input manually.

3. The alarm control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the support information is diagnostic information of the equipment.

4. The alarm control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the support information is status information of the equipment which is notified by a maintenance staff of the plant.

5. The alarm control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the support information is periodic patrol information which is notified by a maintenance staff of the plant.

6. The alarm control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a filtering section for performing a conditional filtering process on an output of the normalizing section.