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Alarm Management Commentary from the Hallways of TiPS, Inc
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Alarm Management and the 5S approach

Most employees will choose an organized and clean workplace with a continuous improvement culture over a dirty disorganized facility.<< MORE >>

The importance of alarm mangement lifecycle

The reason why so many people are concerned about rationalizing their alarm systems is that the systems were never designed properly to start with... The risk associated with these systems should make you nervous about the potential they offer for incidents.<< MORE >>

Searching for the momentous- making it right

"I figured that it cost the same amount of time and money to design it wrong as it did to design it right. So I thought- why not just design it right to start with?"<< MORE >>

The long-lost art of true Alarm Management-- Forensics

The reason why we designed control systems with an alarm printer was so that we could tear that sheet off the printer, and bring it to the console where we could compare the alarm activity to real-time results to decide what went wrong, and how. << MORE >>

Buying American

Buy something American today. If you need some good Alarm Management software, there's only one all-American company in the business. And I promise you will be happy with your purchase. << MORE >>

As the World Turns- Quality is alway eventually recognized

Lately, TiPS has been receiving a lot of inquiries from clients who purchased another competitor's alarm management solution. << MORE >>

Alarm Management versus Procedure Enforcement

Give us systems that allows us to put our process knowledge into the guidance the operator will receive...We'd like to reserve alarms for situations where's there's been a breach in the outer hull.<< MORE >>

Incomplete rationalization?

...we heard comments of "we've spent lots of money having this done, but we're not sure what we received for our money". << MORE >>

Regulatory confusion, fear uncertainty and doubt (FUD)

It's always exciting to a vendor when they believe you might be required to buy their product by legal mandate. << MORE >>

Making Alarm Management Myths by using DMAIC

The real secret here is that you don't want to look back at this problem in three years and find out you blew your entire capital on resolving only a part of the issue. << MORE >>