Critical Condition Management

摘要

Managing a large plant, you have many things on your mind. How can you focus resources and attention on the most important issues? Critical condition management is addressing the operator's workload and ability to handle plant disturbances and abnormal conditions. The main aspects are alarm management, controller performance monitoring (CPM), operator graphics and operator advisory systems. These "human reliability" aspects are addressed by Lyondell's Operations and Controls Best Practice team. The focus of this presentation is on the current status, metrics, and implementation of alarm management and CPM. To emphasize the nature of this continuous improvement process, Lyondell has introduced meaningful key performance indicators (KPI) and efficient support tools for alarm management (Logmate) and controller performance monitoring (Planttriage). These are currently being rolled out to all Lyondell sites. This is an important contribution to "human reliability" at Lyondell's production sites.