System and method for plant operation gap analysis and guidance solution

An apparatus comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• at least one processor configured to:
• receive one or more operating conditions from one or more field devices of one or more industrial plants in response to receiving one or more alarm signals,
• determine one or more industrial plant states based on the one or more operating conditions,
• identify one or more historical alarm episodes stored in one or more data stores based on the one or more industrial plant states,
• identify one or more recommended historical alarm episodes of the one or more historical alarm episodes based on one or more benchmark metrics of the one or more historical alarm episodes, and
• generate the one or more recommended historical alarm episodes for display on a user interface,
• wherein the one or more benchmark metrics comprise at least one of:
• an integral of a difference between an actual and alarm trip point during a span of an alarm of the alarm episode,
• a quantity of operator actions that require a least amount of time to return one or more components of an industrial plant to a normal state form an alarm state,
• a fewest quantity of operator actions to be performed to return one or more components of an industrial plant to normal state from an alarm state,
• a fewest quantity of additional adverse conditions that would be generated by performed operator actions to return one or more components of an industrial plant to a normal state from an alarm state, or
• a fewest quantity of plant rules or engineering guidelines that need to be violated to return one or more components of an industrial plant to a normal state from an alarm state.

A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing one or more computer executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:

• receive one or more operating conditions from one or more field devices of one or more industrial plants in response to receiving one or more alarm signals;
• determine one or more industrial plant states based on the one or more operating conditions;
• identify one or more historical alarm episodes stored in one or more data stores based on the one or more industrial plant states;
• identify one or more recommended historical alarm episodes of the one or more historical alarm episodes based on one or more benchmark metrics of the one or more historical alarm episodes;
• and
• generate the one or more recommended historical alarm episodes for display on a user interface,
• wherein the one or more benchmark metrics comprise at least one of:
• an integral of a difference between an actual and alarm trip point during a span of an alarm of the alarm episode,
• a quantity of operator actions that require a least amount of time to return one or more components of an industrial plant to a normal state from an alarm state,
• a fewest quantity of operator actions to be performed to return one or more components of an industrial plant to a normal state from an alarm state,
• a fewest quantity of additional adverse conditions that would be generated by performed operator actions to return one or more components of an industrial plant to a normal state from an alarm state, or
• a fewest quantity of plant rules or engineering guidelines that need to be violated to return one or more components of an industrial plant to a normal state from an alarm state.