Patent ID: 8742918

Claim:
An alarm management system for managing alarm messages of a technical installation or a technical process, comprising: a data processing device for receiving the alarm messages; and a plurality of display modules for presenting the alarm messages, wherein the data processing device includes a module for creating alarm channels for different types of presentation of each pending alarm message, wherein each of the created alarm channels is assigned to one of the display modules, wherein each display module provides types of presentation for the alarm messages in the form of at least one of lists, alarm clouds, and presentations in conjunction with at least one of acoustic signals and alarm histories, wherein the created alarm channels are communication channels and transmit the alarm messages to the display modules, wherein boundary conditions with respect to an assignment to a corresponding display module are associated with each created channel, and wherein a comparison module for each channel compares the alarm messages with the associated boundary conditions, such that those alarm messages which match the associated boundary conditions of the respective channel are supplied to the corresponding display module of a respective channel for presentation, and those alarm messages which do not match the associated boundary conditions with respect to an assignment to the corresponding display module are supplied to a selection module, are checked for a match for assignment to a display module according to a rule-based evaluation, and are transmitted to the associated display module for presentation.