By implementing M.A.C RESTRICTED AREA
Solutions’ ProcessVue alarm
management and printer
replacement software at Drax
Power Station, engineers can
now identify alarm trends
more easily and quickly and
analyse the causes of plant
upsets, should any occur,
including the sequence of
events (SOEs) leading up to a
loss of production.

George Eccleston, lead
control and instrumentation
engineer, says: “We have 11
SCADA systems across site.

Six of these systems look
after the six steam turbine
generators, two are associated
with water treatment and
common site services, and
the remaining three are
within our materials
handling processes.

“All provide plant
operators with real time
alarm handling capability.

M.A.C Solutions has
supported us every step of
the way, adapting and tuning
ProcessVue to exactly meet
our requirements.”
Eccleston works in the
Production Department at
Drax. He adds: “ProcessVue
has been critical in helping us
to quickly identify the
sequence of events that lead
up to a plant upset or loss of
production.

“By adapting it to our
requirements, M.A.C
Solutions has also helped deskill
our alarm management
processes so that front-end
users can access information
quickly and easily.”
ProcessVue is based on
open technologies and uses
.net technology from
Microsoft. It uses the industry
standard SQL database, TCP/
IP system architecture and
the latest Ajax ‘Zero
Footprint’ web-based clients.