Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 123)

9 • Set up alarms
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Set up alarms
Use the Alarm Setup editor to set up alarms.
For detailed information about the options in the Alarm Setup editor, see Help.
Prepare to set up alarms
As your application is running, information is continually sent to the data source about the
state of the various processes. For example, your application might be monitoring whether
a valve is open or closed, or the temperature in a boiler. Values representing the status of
these processes are sent to the data source.
The first step in setting up alarms is determining which processes to monitor for alarm
conditions.
The data source
The FactoryTalk View documentation uses the term data source as a generic term that
includes all possible sources of tag data, for both data server tags and HMI tags. The data
source can be memory or a device such as a programmable controller or an OPC server.
FactoryTalk View writes values to and reads values from the data source. The data source
is set up to exchange information (in the form of numeric or string values) between
FactoryTalk View and the machine that your application is controlling.
Specify the graphic
display to show alarm
messages at run time
and specify time settings.
Create alarm messages.
Define alarm triggers.