Alarm Enforcement … or Not?
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By Lieven Dubois and Ian Brown, MAC SolutionsAlarm Enforcement is the process of comparing Process Control System (PCS) alarm attributes with the authorised list of alarm attributes held within a site's Master Alarm Database (MADb), and restoring those which are found to be at variance to the values held within the MADb.In this paper, we will discuss the pros and cons of this practice.