System and Method for Personalized Alarm Notifications in an Industrial Automation Environment

A computer readable medium having program instructions stored thereon, that, when executed by an apparatus, direct the apparatus to at least:

• render a configuration module through which to receive user input specifying notification criteria related to alarms in an industrial process environment;
• upload the notification criteria to an alarm service that receives the alarms from the industrial process environment;
• receive a notification from the alarm service associated with one or more of the alarms that satisfy the notification criteria;
• display the notification in a notification module;
• and
• in response to a user selection of the notification, download the one or more alarms.

A method for providing notifications and alarms relating to an industrial process environment, comprising:

• in a mobile application:
• rendering a configuration module through which to receive user input specifying notification criteria related to alarms in the industrial process environment;
• and
• uploading the notification criteria to an alarm service that receives the alarms from the industrial process environment;
• in an alarm service:
• receiving the notification criteria;
• storing the alarms related to the industrial process environment;
• identifying one or more alarms corresponding to the notification criteria;
• and
• returning a notification associated with the one or more alarms to the mobile application;
• in the mobile application:
• displaying the notification.