This example demonstrates the configuration of a simple Alarm Action Calendar on
a Geo SCADA Expert system. The Calendar in this example is for a control room that has a five-day working week. Alarms are redirected to the on-call engineer out of hours and during Public holidays.
Example:
A control room has a 5-day working week. It is manned during the following hours:
Monday to Thursday 08:30 to 16:30
Friday 08:30 to 15:30
Out of hours and during Public Holidays, alarms are redirected to the on-call engineer.
The Monday to Thursday Day Types are set to correspond to the working times above, so are configured as follows:
08:30 Working 1 Redirection List
16:30 Non-Working Redirection List
(By default, the period from midnight to the first entry of 08:30 is deemed Non-Working, and therefore does not need to be set manually.)
Similarly, the Friday Day Type is configured to have these times:
08:30 Working 1 Redirection List
15:30 Non Working Redirection List
(Again, by default, the period from midnight to the first entry of 08:30 is deemed Non-Working, and therefore does not need to be set manually.)
On the Calendar Form, suitable alarm redirections are set on the Working 1 Redirections tab to redirect alarms for when engineers are manning the control room (during normal working hours, Monday to Friday). The Non-Working Time Redirections tab of the Calendar Form is used to redirect alarms to the on-call engineer for when intervention is required out of hours.
For Public Holidays, Day Type 1 is renamed to Public Holiday. It is not given any schedule settings, as by default every Day Type is deemed to run the Non-Working Redirection List, unless configured otherwise. (If different alarm redirections were required to those for other out of hours times, the Public Holiday Day Type could have been allocated the Working 2 Redirections List, and appropriate redirections set on the Working 2 Redirections tab of the Calendar Form.)
Similarly, Saturday and Sunday are not allocated any schedule times as these, by default, already run the Non-Working Redirections List for the whole day.
For clarity, Day Types 2 to 6 are renamed to include the text ‘Unused’, so that engineers do not inadvertently add these unconfigured Day Types to the Calendar.
Finally, Public Holiday dates are added to the Calendar Editor. The Public Holidays override the usual settings for the days to which they are allocated. So, if a Public Holiday occurs on a Monday, Geo SCADA Expert redirects alarms according to the Public Holiday Day Type Schedule, rather than the Monday Day Type Schedule.
For May 2013, the Calendar shows the following:
