Alarm Handling on the MOP 703-14

703-14 Alarm Handling on the MOP

1. HMI (Human Machine Interface)

The HMI consists of four fixed areas always shown. See Plate 70319 Fig. 2

1. An Alarm Status Bar showing the oldest non-Acknowledged alarm

and Alarm status at the top of the screen.
2. A Navigation Bar at the right side of the screen.
3. A Toolbar at the bottom of the screen.
4. A Screen area (rest of the Screen)
The HMI operates with two user levels, which are Operator level and Chief
level.

· Operator level: From the Operator level it is not allowed to set any parameters.
It is for normal operation and monitoring only.
· Chief level: in addition to the Operator level, the operator has privileges to set
parameters. A password must be supplied in order to access Chief level.
There is no limit in the number of unsuccessful attempts to enter the correct pass-
word. The password is hard coded in the system and can therefore not be
changed. The password is to be thought of as an aid to the operator, in order to
prevent unintended input to the ECS.
2. Alarm System
The alarms displayed on the MOP panel are all related to the ME Engine Control
System and thereby surveillance of the engine condition. As seen on Plate 70319
Fig. 1, the ordinary alarm system and the ME-ECS alarm system are connected
and able to interact. This is caused by the use of common sensors for engine mon-
itoring, i.e. common sensors are used for indicating and detecting alarm as well as
slow down.

Especially alarms interacting with the engine safety system are common for the
Engine Control System and the ordinary alarm system. As an example could be
mentioned alarms giving Slow Down and Shut Down.

When a Slow Down has been detected by the external Slow Down function, this is
signalled to the ECS by a binary signal. When the binary signal is high, the result-
ing speed set point is forced to the preset Slow Down level.

3. Alarm Handling
Alarm handling is carried out from one of the following four screens

1.1 Alarm List

1.2 Event Log

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1.3 Manual Cut-Out List

1.4 Channel List

These four Alarm Handling screens can be accessed via the secondary navigator
by pressing the “ALARM” button in the main navigator. When pressing this button,
the latest selected alarm screen will be shown on the screen. If no screen has pre-
viously been selected, the “Alarm List” is shown. The screen can then be changed
via the secondary navigator.

3.1 Alarm List (See Plate 70320)

The Alarm List contains the central facility of the Alarm Handling, allowing for dis-
play, acknowledgement and cut-out of raised alarms. Detailed alarm explanation
can be accessed for each of the alarm occurrences.

The Alarms are displayed in chronological order, with the latest alarm at the top. If
there are too many alarms to be displayed at the same time on the screen, the re-
maining alarms can be accessed by pressing the Page-up/Page-down buttons
seen on the Toolbar at the bottom of the Screen.

Alarms presented in the alarmlist can be found in three states:

1. Alarm non acknowledged

2. Alarm acknowledged

3. Normal non acknowledged

An alarm can only appear as one line in the alarm list. An acknowledged alarm go-
ing into normal or an alarm changed to normal being acknowledged, is immediate-
ly removed from the list.

Acknowledgement of a single or all alarms is allowed on both levels (operator or

chief) from the “Ack/Ack All” buttons on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. (By
pressing “Ack/Ack All” only the alarms visible on the screen are acknowledged).

To see a detailed alarm explanation, press the relevant alarm line. The alarm line
is then surrounded by a dotted line, and giving the impression that a “light is
switched on behind the field. By pressing the button “Info” on the Toolbar, a win-
dow will appear just above the Toolbar. This window contains:

Description – Cause – Effect - Suggested Action of the alarm, so that the engine-
er is able to start troubleshooting on this particular alarm.

(The detailed alarm explanation is removed by pressing the same “Info” button).

3.1.1 Alarm Line Fields, Colours and Symbols (See Plate 70320)
Each alarm line is divided into the following fields:

ID. This field contains a unique alarm identity. (e.g. CCU1_031220). This ID must
always be used for reference and reporting.

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Time. This field shows the time of the first occurrence of the alarm, no matter the
status changes. The time is shown in hours, minutes, seconds and 1/100 sec.
(13:47:02.56)

Description. This field contains the alarm text.

(e.g. HCU oil leakage)

Status. This field shows the status of the alarm as one of the following:

· Normal
· Alarm
· Low
· High
· Not available
· Auto cut-out
· Manual cut-out
Limit. This feature is not available in this software version.

Current. This feature is not available in this software version.

Ack. The acknowledgement status field of non-acknowledged alarms contains an

icon toggling between two states, alerting the operator of a non-acknowledged
alarm.

The status of the alarm can also be identified by the background colour as well as
the graphical identification in the Acknowledgement field on the Screen as shown
below

Alarm Acknowledge Status Background Colour Acknowledgement

Status Field Graphics
Alarm Non-Acknowledged RED
Alarm Acknowledgement in YELLOW
progress
Alarm Acknowledged YELLOW
Non-Alarm Non-Acknowledged GREEN
Non-Alarm Acknowledgement in GREEN
progress
Cut-Out Not Non-Acknowledged previous LIGHT GREY
Available alarm
Cut-Out Not Acknowledgement of LIGHT GREY
Available previous Alarm in progress

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At the upper right corner of the screen four (4) small icons are shown which are
(from left to right):

A triangle (red) with a number = Number of Non-Acknowledged alarms

A triangle (yellow) with a number = Acknowledged alarms

A triangle (yellow) with a number = Number of Manual Cut-Out alarms

A square (yellow) with a number = Number of Input Channels Cut-Out.

From the toolbar at the bottom of the Alarm List screen, alarms can be cut-out.
This feature is described in details in Section 3.3.

3.2 Event Log (See Plate 70321)

The event log is, for instance, used for viewing the history of events and to support
the operator in troubleshooting. Events stay in the log even after they have been
acknowledged and are no longer active. Alarms are logged with three events in
the Event Log. The events are Alarm, Normal and Acknowledged. There can be
up to 1 million events logged in the event log.

The events are stored in a database on the MOP’s hard disc with both local and
UTC time stamps. If more than 1 million events are logged, the oldest events are
discarded.

Each event (with the most recent event on top) is shown as a single line and each
event line is divided into the following fields:

ID Unit Tag. This field contains a unique event identity.

Date. This field contains the date of the event.

Time. This field shows the time of the event. The time is shown in hours, minutes,
seconds and 1/100 sec.

Description. This field contains the alarm text (e.g. HCU oil leakage).

Status. This field shows either Normal or Alarm.

MCo. Shows whether the alarm is Manual Cut-Out or not.

ACo. Automatic Cut-Out.

Ack. The alarm is acknowledged.

3.2.1 Searching and Filtering Event Log Records.

When using the Event Log to help analysing an event, different search and filter
facilities are available to narrow the search. Explaining in brief, the facilities are
(one button for each):

Go to Date/Time:
This feature is used to scroll the list to a certain date and time, when the speci-
fic Date or Date/Time is known.

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When pressing the Go to Date/Time button an on-screen keyboard occurs with

two button/fields for Date and Time respectively. Press the button to be speci-
fied and enter the value. The Date field is obligatory, while the Time field is op-
tional. Press “Apply” to execute the search. The selection will be the first event
after the specified date (and time).

The scroll buttons on the physical keyboard can be used afterwards to scroll
line by line, in order to make the search even more specific.

Time Span Filter:

This feature can be used if only a part of the list is interesting, e.g if a certain
range of the Event Log list is to be printed or exported for e.g trouble shooting
assistance at MAN Diesel.

Enter the From/To Date and time in the Time Span Filter toolbar by using the
on-screen keyboard. If only the From Date is entered, the To Date is automati-
cally set to the current date. Also if only the To Date is entered, the From Date is
automatically set to 1900-01-01. From Time/To Time is optional. Press “Apply”
to execute the selection.

The time entered MUST be UTC time.

Unit/Tag Filter:
When an alarm occurs, it is stored in the Event Log by its ID (Unit/Tag
number). It is possible to filter for a specific cause of event or a group of
events by pressing the Unit/Tag Filter button, e.g if one wants to see how
often a specific event occurs or if e.g only events related to a specific unit
are interesting.

Three Criteria buttons (filter buttons) occur in the on-screen keyboard to define
the filter:

Unit: The Unit name, e.g CCU.

Index: The Unit number, e.g CCU1 (only available if a Unit has been entered).

Tag: The alarm tag name, e.g 031220

The fields are all optional. Fields that are not filled in, means ‘any text’. Press
“Apply” to execute the search and filtering.

Export:
This button is used when saving the displayed Event Log Record on a USB
mamory stick, on the hard disk drive (HDD) or when printing a hard copy of
the displayed data - see next section.

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3.2.2. Saving Event Log Records.

Printing:
If a printer is connected to the MOP B hub, printing the displayed data is
possible.

1. Press the Export button.

2. Press Print on the pop-up screen.

To limit the amount of lines being printed, see Time Span Filter.

For trouble shooting purposes, MAN Diesel may request an Event Log
Record. The Event Log Record can be stored as a compressed file
(.zip) on a USB memory Stick or on the hard disk drive (HDD), by the
engine crew. The .zip file is then to be sent by e-mail from the ship’s
ordinary PC to MAN Diesel.

Save to USB Memory Stick:

This is most likely the option to use if MAN Diesel requests an Event Log Re-
cord for trouble shooting purposes.

1. Insert the USB memory stick into MOP-B.

2. On the Event Log screen, press the Export button and the Export Event
Log tool bar shows up. Destination field will read USB.

3. On the Event Log tool bar, press the Save button.

4. When the saving is finished, the destination field will read SAVED and
the USB memory stick can be removed.

The data displayed on the Event Log screen, is now stored on the USB memory
stick. The output will be a comma separated file with the name: EventLog<date,
time>.zip.

To limit the file size to be exported see Time Span Filter.

Save to Hard disk:

If a USB memory stick is not available, the Event Log data can be saved onto
the Hard disk.

1. On the Event Log screen, press the Export button and the Export Event
Log tool bar shows up. Destination field will read HDD, as no USB memo-
ry stick is plugged in.

2. On the Export Event Log tool bar, press the Save button.

3. When the saving is finished, the destination field will read SAVED. The
data displayed on the Event Log screen, is now stored on HDD.

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The output will be a comma separated file with the name: EventLog<date,
time>.zip.

To limit the file size to be exported, see Time Span Filter.

Dump:
Dump and Save have the same functionality, except for the actual output i.e
when the Dump button is pressed, the displayed Event Log is saved to the
location shown in the Destination field. The data however, will be saved as an
SQL script and compressed to a .zip file. The file name will be: EventLogDump
<date, time>.zip.

<Date, Time> is the current UTC time when the file was saved.

3.3 Manual Cut-Out List (See Plate 70322)

Manual Cut-Out of alarms may be used, for instance, if the engineer has observed
a failure of a sensor that is not detected automatically (see below in the parenthe-
sis) or if, for instance, a Tacho pick-up is failing (the engine running on the redun-
dant Tacho system) and is continuously giving an alarm and cannot be replaced
immediately.

(Alarms may be cut-out automatically. Automatic cut-out may be used to suppress

alarms which is unimportant in specific states, e.g. when the engine is stopped, or
when a sensor is detected as being faulty).

The manually cut-out alarms are shown in a separate list, which can be accessed
from the navigation bar. The manual cut-out screen is in functionality equivalent to
the alarm list screen. An alarm can be cut-out manually from the screens Alarm
List, Manual cut-out List or Channel list.

All alarm channels that have the status “Manual cut-out” are shown in the manual
cut-out screen.
Removing (“activating”) an entry from the Manual cut-out list is done by highlight-
ing the alarm(s) involved on the screen and thereafter pressing the button “Reac-
tivate” in the toolbar.

3.4 Channel List (See Plate 70323)

The alarm channel screen contains status information of all alarm channels within
the ECS, no matter the status of the individual alarm channel.

As default, the alarm channels are listed in tag-name alphabetic order.

From the alarm channel screen, it is possible to cut out (and activate) alarm chan-
nels.

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