Octave Tempo Control System Effectiveness

Formerly PAS PlantState Integrity. Unify alarm, control loop and protection layer data into actionable insights.

Overview

Transform data into action for safer, smarter operations.

Benefits

Improve operator awareness and risk management

Tempo Control System Effectiveness (formerly PAS PlantState Integrity) is a comprehensive platform providing critical visibility into alarm systems, control loops, operational boundaries and independent protection layers (IPLs). It contextualizes multi-source data into actionable insights, improving operator awareness, mitigating abnormal situations and enhancing plant safety, reliability and profitability.

Features

Key features driving operational excellence

From alarms to IPLs, optimize every layer of safety and control. Reduce noise, monitor limits, automate reporting and tune loops with precision to help your teams detect, prevent and respond faster to keep production safe, stable and efficient.

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Simplify and improve alarm management

Enable immediate, significant reduction of nuisance alarms. Facilitate regulatory compliance, avoid upset conditions that impact production and improve operator detection and response to abnormal situations.

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Operate within process boundary limits

Aggregate, validate and display safe operating limits in real-time. Present safe operating limits within control display systems and allow operators to instantly determine a plant’s current state relative to its safe operating limits.

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Ensure IPL function availability and performance

Optimize plant resources by automating Independent Protection Layer (IPL) integrity reporting. Facilitate the lifecycle support of all safety infrastructure within a facility and provide an audit trail for compliance.

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Optimize control loop safety

Monitor control loops to diagnose and expose potential issues with sensors, valves and controllers so they can be addressed before safety risks occur and profitability is affected.

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Take the guesswork out of tuning

Calculate optimal PID controllers and filter settings for control loop optimization, thereby eliminating the guesswork from tuning, enhancing process safety, improving preventative maintenance and lowering operating costs.

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Multiple assets, one solution

Manage all your alarms seamlessly regardless of where they come from with a dynamic, simple-to-use, vendor-agnostic solution.

Statistics

Octave Tempo Control System Effectiveness by the numbers

>60%

Improve alarm rates through smarter alarm tuning

>50%

Decrease the number of loops in manual

90%

Reduce Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) bypasses

70%

Reduce nuisance alarms by 70% with bad actor analysis

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Control System Effectiveness is a leading alarm management solution incorporating technologies and best practices, enabling our operators to focus on critical work while improving safety, efficiency and quality.
Mark D. Sen Gupta
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Director of Research, ARC Advisory Group
Control System Effectiveness is a leading alarm management solution incorporating technologies and best practices, enabling our operators to focus on critical work while improving safety, efficiency and quality.
Mark D. Sen Gupta
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Director of Research, ARC Advisory Group
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