For industrial companies, joining EEMUA provides a distinct competitive advantage:

A petrochemical refinery experiencing 15,000 alarms per day (operator: "We just acknowledge and ignore them"). Following EEMUA 191, they rationalized alarm settings, prioritized alarms into critical/warning/advisory, and implemented alarm shelving. Within six months, alarms dropped to 150 per day, and a major incident was avoided when a genuine critical alarm was immediately noticed.

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