PAS (Houston, Tex.; www.pas.com), a global leader in alarm management software and consulting services for the process industries, announced today that BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany; www.basf.com) has selected its alarm management software for their enterprise-wide alarm management initiative. The agreement enables BASF to deploy PAS’ PlantState Suite software throughout BASF operating facilities worldwide.
PlantState Suite, a comprehensive realtime alarm management software suite, includes alarm & event data collection and analysis, performance metrics manager, documentation and rationalization, state-based alarm handling, flood suppression, alarm shelving, as well as an audit & enforce feature to keep alarm systems performing optimally.
“PAS is pleased to support BASF’s corporate alarm management improvement initiative that will help enhance plant operability and efficiency. BASF’s selection of our software solutions further validates PAS’s leadership in the alarm management market,” said Bijan Habibi, PAS vice-president of International Operations.
“BASF conducted a rigorous evaluation of available alarm management technologies and selected PAS as its partner because PAS offers currently the most valuable solution for BASF.” said Simon Kronemeier of Automation Technology BASF. “As a corporate initiative, we plan to use PAS software to monitor and improve alarms within each of our operating plants.”