Alarm Management: Seven Effective Methods for Optimum Performance By Bill R. Hollifield and Eddie Habibi This comprehensive alarm management resource combines more than a decade of research with the experiences of many alarm management professionals to bring you field-proven methodologies that have helped industrial plants around the world improve their alarm management systems. Learn how properly designed and maintained alarm systems can drastically help improve plant safety, reliability, and profitability. Using seven effective methods, the authors explain how you can improve the performance of your alarm systems, including benchmarking an alarm system performance against industry best practices, developing an alarm philosophy document, rationalizing alarms, and applying real-time alarm management optimization strategies. Whatever the nature of your alarm systems, you will find Alarm Management: Seven Effective Methods for Optimum Performance a necessary part of your operational excellence and other business improvement initiatives.
This class-tested book gives you a familiarity with electricity and electronics as used in the modern world of measurement and control. Integral to the text are procedures performed to make safe and successful measurements of electrical quantities. It will give you a measurement vocabulary along with an understanding of digital and analog meters, bridges, power supplies, solid state circuitry, oscilloscopes, and analog to digital conversions. Where possible, applications are used to illustrate the topics being explained. This book will enhance student success in any industrial or technical school setting where basic technician training is to take place.
Format: Softbound Book – 2006 ISBN: 978-1-55617-988-4 Length: 383 pages; Weight: 2 lbs. Member: $79.00; List: $89.00 www.isa.org/basicelectricity
Format: Softbound Book – 2007 ISBN: 978-1-934394-00-7 Length: 178 pages; Weight 1 lb. Member: $79.00; List: $89.00 www.isa.org/alarmmanagement
Instrumentation Dictionary, 4th Edition (with CD-ROM) ISA Now available on CD-ROM together with the print volume. No technical library is complete without this comprehensive dictionary covering the entire vocabulary of automation, systems, and instrumentation. References to relevant ISA and IEC standards are now included throughout, along with illustrations to enhance the definitions of more difficult terms. This reference encompasses not only specialized vocabulary unique to instruments and control systems, but many terms from other engineering disciplines as well. Ideal for engineers, managers, salespeople, technicians, students, and technical writers, this volume is packed with practical information.
Certified Automation Professional® (CAP®) Study Guide ISA This is a comprehensive self-study resource for the CAP® certification exam. The study guide contains a list of the CAP® knowledge areas and tasks, 50 review questions and answers complete with justifications and references. The study guide also includes a recommended list of publications you can use to do further study on specific domains.
Format: Softbound Book – 2004 ISBN: 978-1-55617-888-7 Length: 57 pages; Weight: 1 lb. Member: $29.00; List: $39.00 www.isa.org/capguide
Format: Softbound Book – 2003 ISBN: 978-1-55617-778-1 Length: 582 pages; Weight: 2 lbs. Member: $89.00; List: $109.00 www.isa.org/dictionary
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This study guide contains a list of the CIMM® knowledge areas and tasks, 50 review questions and answers complete with justifications and references.
Format: Softbound Book – 2006 ISBN: 978-1-55617-901-3 Length: 48 pages; Weight: 1 lb. Member: $29.00; List: $39.00 www.isa.org/cimmguide
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