Setpoint & Alarm Tracking

What does datumpin track?

With datumpin, you can track your digital and analogue setpoints, as well as your alarm messages, directly from your PLC controller. These are stored within an embedded data memory unit that datumpin installs in your PLC network. Combining this with datumpin synchronised data stack of your equipment behaviour, these setpoints and alarms provide a clear, crisp overview of the status of your equipment.

Setpoints

PLC systems provide access to the operator configuration setpoints that are adjustable through PLC displays, which are known as HMI (Human Machine Interfaces).

Setpoint changes can have unexpected and significant impacts on equipment control.

With datumpin, setpoint changes are tracked and presented chronologically in a clear summary, combined with alerts to system owners of unauthorised changes. datumpin embedded data memory curates your ‘Blueprint’ setpoints, which can be easily reuploaded in the event of a PLC failure.

Alarm messages

Your PLC controllers keep local records of alarm and warning messages. However, these are lost once an operator acknowledges and clears messages wiping from HMI display memory. Fortunately, datumpin’s eDM records all alarm and warning messages for long-term retrieval.

 What are the benefits of setpoint and alarm tracking?

Comprehensive setpoint record

Changes to setpoints often happen at a local site without external alerts to process and equipment managers. Unauthorised changes can cause issues with your systems.

With datumpin, you’ll always have access to a comprehensive setpoint activity record. That helps you to pinpoint what changes are made, presented in chronological order. That’s invaluable data unlocked purely from your existing PLC and HMI system.

Never lose your alarm messages

When cleared locally by an operator, your alarm message history is lost forever. datumpin preserves and stores the alarm messages within your PLC controller. This ensures you’ll never lose track of your alarm messages again and can review them within the archive. Our case studies illustrate that presenting alarm messages in a league table format allows focus on recurring issues. Even trivial recurring issues cloud the operator’s vision of important messages, and eliminating these is rewarding, encouraging continuous improvement and process optimization.

Synchronised time base

If you have multiple PLC controllers from multiple suppliers, you might imagine that accessing this data can be unwieldy. That’s not the case with datumpin, as you’ll be able to access all the data from your system within a single, synchronised time base. That includes your digital and analogue setpoints, as well as alarm messages.

Take control of your equipment

Multiple setpoint changes can make an impact on your equipment. If you don’t have access to data about your setpoints, then maintaining your equipment becomes a challenge.

datumpin gives you access to the data and tools you need to stay in control of your equipment, and respond effectively to faults when they arise remotely, enabling preparation prior to site work.

Optimise your equipment

Remaining aware of alarm messages and changes to your setpoints not only helps you to diagnose faults, it also helps with optimisation. As you’ll have an at-a-glance view of these issues, you can take remedial action to get the most out of your equipment.

Beyond this, datumpin’s alarm tracker also produces league tables which visualise fault frequency, helping you to pinpoint the most common issues to optimise.

With the searchable data stack, you can also validate setpoint change impact across multiple PLC parameters. In essence, you can turn back time and “witness” the setpoint changes that took place before a fault occurred.

Optimisation and preventative maintenance with datumpin

On datumpin’s alarm league tables, you’ll be able to see tasks to complete for continuous improvement. By eliminating the alarm warnings, you’ll build a healthier system that reaches optimal performance. You’ll also be able to complete preventative maintenance, ensuring that recurring low-level issues are resolved before they grow into major issues.

Supervising your process control and managing PLC failure recovery is also made easier by datumpin’s setpoint tracking tools. You’ll have access to a vast record of your setpoint changes in a clear chronological order. Pinpointing issues and optimising your equipment has never been simpler.

Increase setpoint and alarm message visibility for your PLC

datumpin reports setpoint changes and maintains change chronology archives to improve your process control supervision and PLC failure rexovery by providing a comprehensive setpoint activity record.

Tap into the hidden data of your PLC and track the information that matters with datumpin. Never lose track of setpoint changes or alarm messages again.

Want to know more about the setpoint and alarm tracking systems? Then get in touch with datumpin’s experienced team today.

datumpin reports setpoint changes and maintains change chronology archives to improve your process control supervision and PLC failure recovery by providing a comprehensive setpoint activity record.