Breakout Session C3: Malvin Eikås
Organisation: Equinor
Job Title: Manager Auto and Telecom Tech
Session Title: Alarm Management - EEMUA 191
Date & Time: 26 March 2025 @15:00
Bio: Malvin has been working with operation and maintenance of automation technology, safety and automation systems, within oil and gas production and renewables and working for enabling digitalisation in Equinor's Integrated Operations Centre.
Malvin is an expert on human machine interface (HMI) design in petroleum and other process, on requirements for alarm management; and on the interface between control room environment and the technology needed to operate and monitor the process.
Malvin is also author for the company technical requirement governing documentation for Safety and Automation System Operator Station Human-Machine Interfaces. He is a member of ISA 101 and Norwegian expert in WG19 in IEC/SC 65A on Human machine interfaces for process automation systems.
Presentation Summary:
Defining and operating large control system, typically with more than some ten thousand alarms, demands integrated solutions with effective management of change throughout the entire life of the asset. The presentation starts with alarm basics from EEMUA 191 and includes the IEC 62682 life cycle model for alarm management. Then an integrated alarm management life cycle system is defined. The new application has been implemented on a large oil production facility in the North Sea and examples from the application is presented and discussed.