DCS 1
With High Performance graphics, color is used to call an Operator’s attention to this
What is Important Information?
On an Ovation DCS screen, an item indicated in dark blue represents this
What is a Live Value?
For any active alarm, you can click on the alarm number/symbol to open (“launch”) this
What is "Alarm pop-up window for the selected equipment"?
Everything that measures something in an Ovation System is this
What is "a Point"?
This field of an Alarm pop-up window gives plain language info about a point in an Ovation System
What is "Description"?
“Code” field of an Alarm pop-up window in an Ovation System indicates this
What is "an Operator Action"?
“AP” and “Priority” columns in an Alarm pop-up window provide this
What is "the Same Information"?
A vibrant vs muted color displayed for an alarm in an Ovation System indicates ________ vs ________ status
What is "unacknowledged"? What is "acknowledged"?
When viewing Alarms, this letter indicates “other than GOOD quality” in column labeled “Q” (where Q stands for quality) of an Alarm pop-up window
What is "B"?
Assume you clicked on an equipment icon, and a pop-up window appeared. The pop-up window is referred to as a “Faceplate”. If there is a gray box marked with the letter “P” displayed at the bottom of the Faceplate, you can click on the “P” to open a list of these
What are "Permissives"?
Typically, you can have this many pop-up windows open at a given time in Ovation DCS
What is "One"?
An Ovation “window” may consist of one or more “Faceplates”. You need to do this to activate/ deactivate a Faceplate in Ovation DCS
What is "Click on the Faceplate Title"?
This color/shape indicates an active Faceplate in Ovation DCS
What is "a blue rectangle around the perimeter of the Faceplate"?
These icons/colors represent moving backward/forward through views in Ovation DCS; Where are these icons located?
What are "red arrows", and where is "near the Ovation toolbar"?
On an equipment Faceplate, if there is a white box marked with the letter “P”, but there is a slash across the “P”, it means this
What is "one or more permissives has not been met"?
This is how to resize a pop-up window in Ovation DCS
What is "Zoom by Corners in the Zoom menu"?
This pops open when you right-click on a live value
What is "a Right-click menu"? A Right-click menu allows you to navigate to other Ovation applications or to access an Operations sub-menu for the given point.
You do this to add a column “Priority” to the Ovation Alarms Summary view
What is "Click “Select columns”, Choose “Priority”, then “Add"?
Describe a suppressed alarm and how it is represented on Ovation DCS
What is "an alarm that is ignored by “Main/Active Alarms List", and What is "the letter ‘S’ inside a solid white circle with black border."?
When looking at tab “Alarms Suppressed,” Code “PS XA” means this
What is Point Shelved (PS); What is Alarm Suppressed (XA)
This is the recommended best practice to perform at the beginning of any shift change
What is "Review/understand reason(s) for any alarm listed on tab “Alarms Suppressed.”"?
On an Ovation DCS monitor, this is where the Operator can find a summary of Total Alarms
What is "Lower-right corner of display."?
These are two types of Ovation “window”
What are "Device Window" and "System/Subsystem Window"?
This is how you open an Ovation "window"
What is "select/click on an equipment icon to open a window consisting of related “Faceplates.”"?
Do this to show all pokable fields on an Ovation DCS screen
What is "View -> Display Pokes"?