SCADA Tutorial #5 | Alarm Management | Alarm Handling, Hysteresis & Bitwise Alarms

📌 In this lesson, we cover alarm management in industrial automation and SCADA systems with practical examples. In a SCADA project, it is not enough for alarms to simply occur; tracking the time of occurrence, return to normal state, and operator acknowledgment (Acknowledge) is critical for system reliability and safety. In this video, you will learn advanced Wise SCADA alarm scenarios, including Boolean and comparison alarms, Hysteresis (Dead Band) for analog signals, Bitwise alarms, Alarm View usage, and Dotmatrix printer outputs.

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📌 What You Will Learn in This Lesson

✅ Alarm groups and Boolean alarms

✅ Comparison and analog alarms

✅ Hysteresis (preventing analog signal fluctuations)

✅ Bitwise (bit-based) alarm configuration

✅ Enable / Disable (conditional alarm) feature

✅ Monitoring active and historical alarms with Alarm View

✅ Dotmatrix printer support

  • 00:00 Introduction & Alarm Group Creation
  • 00:54 Monitoring Alarms with Alarm View
  • 01:45 Comparison and Analog Alarms
  • 03:55 What is Hysteresis? (Preventing Analog Fluctuations)
  • 05:00 Alarm Color Definitions (Active / Normal)
  • 05:33 Bitwise Alarm Configuration
  • 06:00 Enable / Disable (Conditional Alarm) Feature
  • 08:35 Printer Settings & Dotmatrix Usage
  • 09:10 Alarm View Customization (Columns & Filters)
  • 10:55 Dynamic, Active & Historical Mode Differences
  • 13:50 Acknowledge Mechanism – Manual vs Auto

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