CAMS is practical and has an immediate effect. It accepts the fact that the sources of alarms are proliferating while customer engineering time and resources are limited. Rather than solely relying on rigorous top-down alarm design and redesign, Yokogawa enables a practical, overarching real-time alarm management system that delivers the right information to the right people at the right time.

	Immediate CAMS Benefits upon Installation
	Easy and Flexible CAMS Engineering

For fundamental re-engineering efforts, also check: Continuous Improvement with Six-Sigma Alarm Rationalization

CAMS for HIS, the latest product to be released by Yokogawa, embodies the CAMS concept. In real time, it integrates the acquisition of all alarm and event (A&E) data, including that from subsystems; normalizes and re-classifies this to eliminate incompatibility; allows customers to add useful alarm attributes such as user names, alarm purposes, and allowable time before action; groups the consolidated A&E data and removes redundant alarms; suppresses nuisance alarms; and enables the operator to focus on important alarms through filtering, sorting, eclipsing, shelving, and load shedding. Through these innovative functions, CAMS for HIS arms customers with an unprecedented capability to implement a real-time consolidated alarm management system with bottom-up flexibility. This is a new solution to an old problem that brings to mind the story of the Egg of Columbus.

This new product also helps customers implement the top-down approach to alarm design by defining good alarms with attributes such as purpose, consequence, and priority.