Alarm root cause in seconds. 5-minute pre-alarm replay. Safe equipment control. All in one product.
Operator asks: “Why won’t my machine start?”
AlarmIQ reads the controller, traces the logic, and answers:
“Circuit Breaker 4 is open. All other interlocks are satisfied.”
A machine goes down. The HMI shows 14 alarms. Only one is the actual cause — the rest are noise. Sound familiar?
Average industrial systems produce 1,200+ alarm events per day. Operators learn to ignore most of them. The one that matters gets buried in the flood.
A technician opens the control program, traces the logic, cross-references I/O lists, checks wiring diagrams. What should take minutes takes an hour — while the line sits idle.
Your senior controls engineer knows exactly which relay feeds which interlock. When they retire, that knowledge disappears. New hires are left staring at a control program they don’t understand.
Traditional SCADA and alarm management tools show you what is alarming. They don't tell you why. You still need a controls engineer to interpret the data.
AlarmIQ reads your controller program, learns the logic, and connects to the live equipment in real time. When an alarm fires, it doesn’t just show you a red light — it traces the entire chain from the alarm output back through every interlock, timer, and comparison to the physical input that caused it. It also captures the minutes before every trip for replay, and explains everything in plain language.
Talk to it from a workstation, or speak to it through a headset while your hands are on the machine.
When an alarm fires, AlarmIQ doesn’t stop at the trigger. It follows the entire chain of conditions that led to the trip — through every interlock, timer delay, alternative path, and threshold check — all the way to the physical sensor or switch that caused it.
AlarmIQ isn't a chatbot with canned responses. It reads live tag values from your PLC, checks interlock states, and gives you answers based on what the equipment is actually doing right now.
When you're standing at the machine with tools in both hands, you can't type. AlarmIQ supports full voice interaction — ask questions, get spoken answers, and confirm equipment operations without touching a screen.
Start motors, change setpoints, and reset faults through the AI assistant. Every action goes through a safety pipeline: the system proposes, the operator confirms, and everything is logged.
AlarmIQ logs every alarm event with its root-cause data, condition snapshot, and related alarms. Over time, this builds a dataset that reveals which alarms are noise, which cascade together, and where your real problems are.
No manual tag mapping. No configuration spreadsheets. Connect to your controller and AlarmIQ automatically discovers every alarm, interlock, timer, and cross-reference. It builds the entire diagnostic model for you.
When an alarm trips, AlarmIQ doesn’t just tell you what happened — it gives you a full replay of the minutes leading up to the event. Every monitored value, every operator action, every state change, captured automatically and frozen at the moment of the trip. Your reliability engineer can walk backwards from the alarm and see exactly which signal moved first, when, and why — without hunting through a separate historian.
Most plants buy three different products to do what AlarmIQ does in one — alarm management, event playback, and operator assistance. Here’s how it compares.
Real scenarios from production floors, commissioning sites, and maintenance shops.
Monday morning. The line won't start. HMI shows 8 active alarms. The operator asks AlarmIQ: “Why won't the machine start?”
AlarmIQ traces all 8 alarms, identifies that 7 are cascading from a single interlock, and reports: “Guard door switch on panel 3 is open. All other conditions are satisfied.”
Controls engineer is on-site commissioning a new packaging line. The control program is freshly written. Instead of manually walking through every alarm condition to verify wiring, they connect AlarmIQ and let it map everything automatically.
“Show me all active faults.” — AlarmIQ lists each alarm with the physical sensor that's causing it. The engineer walks down the line, fixing wiring issues in real time with AlarmIQ as a live assistant.
The air pressure fault alarm has been firing repeatedly for weeks. Operators acknowledge it and move on. Plant manager asks: “Why do we keep getting this alarm?”
AlarmIQ's analytics show the alarm fires every 47 minutes, lasts 3–4 minutes, and always coincides with the compressor cycling off. The root cause: the pressure switch threshold is set 2 PSI above the compressor's low-cycle pressure.
AlarmIQ pays for itself the first time it saves you from a 30-minute troubleshooting session — and keeps paying every day it cuts root-cause hunts from hours to minutes.
AlarmIQ connects to the controllers you already have installed. No special hardware or gateway required.
Real screenshots from a live installation connected to an Allen-Bradley ControlLogix. Click any image to enlarge.
Alarm timeline, active/cleared counts, average resolution time, and recent events with root-cause tags.
Real-time permissive evaluation with color-coded pass/fail. 2,500+ tags polled, every interlock scored live.
Full alarm history with state transitions. Audit trail logs every PLC write with before/after values and verification.
Change setpoints via natural language. 10% safety limit enforced, operator confirmation required, write-back verified from PLC.
One avoided downtime event pays for months of AlarmIQ.
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Visibility & insight into every alarm
per controller · $499/yr
AI + voice + control + full replay
per controller · $799/yr
Multi-controller & advanced insights
$1,299/yr
Unlimited — no cloud dependency
$7,999/yr
The math is simple: If your line costs $500/hour when it’s down, and AlarmIQ saves you 30 minutes on a single event, it’s paid for itself. Most plants see that return in the first week — and keep saving every day after as pre-alarm replay cuts root-cause hunts from hours to minutes.
Compare to the typical alternative stack: a dedicated alarm management tool plus a historian plus an operator assistance layer — each one priced, configured, and supported separately. AlarmIQ replaces the full bundle at a fraction of the combined cost.
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No. AlarmIQ connects to your controller over the network (read-only for monitoring) and reads your existing program to understand the logic. Your controller program stays exactly as it is.
All tiers include cloud-based AI (Claude). Monitor gets 500 msgs/mo, Operate 1,500, Professional 3,000, Enterprise 10,000. The Enterprise tier also includes offline AI that runs entirely on your local network. Root-cause tracing works offline on all tiers.
Yes. Every write goes through a multi-layer safety pipeline: operator confirmation, 10% setpoint guards, safety tag blacklist, controller mode check, and write-then-verify read-back. Safety-critical tags are permanently blocked. Every operation is logged with a full audit trail.
Allen-Bradley ControlLogix and CompactLogix, Siemens S7-1200 and S7-1500, Beckhoff, B&R, and other modern controllers. If your PLC has a network connection, AlarmIQ can connect to it. Contact us to confirm compatibility with your specific equipment.
Yes — this is one of the most valuable use cases. Upload your program, connect to the controller, and AlarmIQ becomes a live commissioning assistant. It shows every interlock state in real time, helps you verify wiring, and identifies issues as you bring the system online.
No. AlarmIQ captures the minutes leading up to every alarm automatically, stores the frozen window, and makes it available for replay and narration. No separate historian, no point-collector configuration, no per-tag retention policy. The replay window ranges from 1 minute (Monitor) to 15 minutes (Enterprise) depending on tier.
Nothing. The 30-day trial includes alarm monitoring, root-cause analysis, and the AI assistant. No credit card required. Download, install, and try it on your equipment today.