GEIS Mission Critical Power Solutions Brochure

GE
Industrial Solutions
Mission Critical Control
Power & Cooling System Solutions
GE's critical control solutions utilize redundancy and high
performance computing to provide the highest level of
availability for critical data center infrastucture.

Mission Critical Control
Power & Cooling Systems
Solutions for Zero Downtime
GE’s solutions for the control,
monitoring and transfer of power
to/from alternative energy sources
enable clean power alternatives to
help achieve sustainability goals.
Alternative Energy
• High Availability Control
• Power Synchronization
and Measurement
• HMI/SCADA
• Historian
HVAC, Chillers, Cooling Towers
• High Availability Control
• HMI/SCADA
• Historian
• Sequence of Event Recording
• Work Process Management
Emergency - Standby Power
• High Availability Control
• Power Synchronization
and Measurement
• HMI/SCADA
• Historian
• Sequence of Event Recording
• Work Process Management
Parallel Power Switching
• High Availability Control
• Power Synchronization and Measurement
• HMI/SCADA
• Historian
• Sequence of Event Recording
• Work Process Management

Expertise, experience
and commitment
To meet increasing critical power demand, GE’s innovative
technologies and unique offerings include value-added specialized
support and services that can help your business succeed.
Product breadth
and open platform
Our comprehensive suite of software
and hardware products includes high
availability control, HMI/SCADA, data
collection, and work process management
to help you achieve your mission critical
power applications with continuous
system availability. Built on a high
performance and open and layered
platform, our products are modular,
configurable and scalable—addressing
today’s needs and those of tomorrow.
Reliable, innovative
technologies
Our mission critical power solutions
leverage the latest technologies,
expertise, and proven methodologies
such as Six Sigma and Lean techniques.
We are continually investing in our
powerful product technologies to
keep customers ahead of the curve
with capabilities that deliver
measurable results.
Partnering for success
Based on our proven methodology,
we ensure rapid and high-quality
implementation of our advanced
technology solutions to maximize your
return on investment. You can rely on
our technical know-how, best practices,
and innovation to successfully define,
configure, and install our solutions in
your mission critical environment—for
improved performance, efficiency,
and availability.
Global customer support
Starting from the moment we engage
with your project to its successful
completion and ongoing maintenance,
we never forget that uptime is directly
correlated to your profitability. With a
global presence, our GlobalCare* support
provides local and prompt technical
support and product expertise where and
when you need it.
OEM Edge Program
We offer an innovative program designed
specifically for our OEM customers to
help maximize productivity and grow their
businesses. OEM Edge members have
exclusive access to a wealth of proven
solutions and custom tools such as
development software, proof of concept
hardware, conversion services, product
rebranding capabilities, training,
and more.
Trusted GE brand
As one of the most trusted names in the
world, GE is committed to partnering with
you for the long term, providing the most
advanced technology solutions to address
your critical business needs.
“We prefer to use GE solutions
because over the broad spectrum of
devices, the GE family coordinates
a package of power products and
controls along with its software that
meets our needs and the needs of
our customers. Superior technical
support has always been one of our
requirements in vendor selection, and
GE has never failed to perform in
both site support and product
selection assistance.”
Gary Butcher
President
Critical Power Consultants

Minimize downtime, minimize risk
for improved profitability.
GE's Automation & Controls Solutions ensure
operational availability and secure reliability while
lowering total cost of ownership.
The costly impact of an unplanned power
outage can lead to lost productivity,
profitability, and customer satisfaction,
making it imperative to ensure the highest
level of system reliability and availability at
all times. Businesses that host critical data
and services such as data centers, medical
care, and e-commerce must mitigate
potential risk with a control system
foundation that provides secure reliability
and the highest level of availability.
Automation & Controls understands the
criticality of uptime. Combining innovative,
advanced technologies and deep domain
expertise in mission-critical power, we
offer proven high performance solutions
that integrate high availability control,
visualization, and analytics for your
essential applications—enabling continuous
operations and increased uptime.
GE is at the forefront of providing
technology solutions that deliver “nearzero”
downtime with unique and flexible
capabilities for businesses that cannot
afford any compromise in system
performance.
Companies around the world have
implemented GE’s mission critical power
solutions to realize value-added results for
a sustainable competitive advantage:
• Maximized uptime – Best in class
high availability control solution is
designed for maximum uptime and
concurrent maintainability.
• Flexibility – Open and scalable
architectures built on advanced
technology allow for greater efficiency
and lower total cost of ownership to
protect current and future investments.
• Intelligence – Advanced computational
capability provides the granular data
needed for predictive analytics for better,
faster decision making.
GE is at the forefront of providing
technology solutions that deliver
“near-zero” downtime with unique and
flexible capabilities for businesses
that cannot afford any compromise in
system performance.

High availability control
PACSystems * programmable automation
controllers are built on a scalable,
synchronized, hot-standby redundancy
control platform, thereby ensuring
uninterrupted control of your applications
and processes with total transparency and
seamless switchover control.
Both the VME-based PACSystems RX7i
and the PCI-based PACSystems RX3i
controllers provide powerful CPUs and
high-bandwidth backplanes. They also
enable connectivity to various I/O on a
proven industrial network that provides
real-time communications, deterministic
data transfers, and automatic switchover
for continuous operations.
Programmer (PME)
RMX
HMI/SCADA
Workflow
CPU #2
You can choose from our two highavailability
architectures to meet
your needs:
• Our redundancy solution consists
of two physically independent
PACSystems controllers that offer true
redundancy data synchronization with
dual modules.
Historian
The controllers have dedicated,
redundant links to one another and
operate synchronously with virtually
no overhead added to the control
application—transferring all of your
application’s variables, status, and
I/O data on every scan with speed
and transparency.
CPU #3
RMX
CPU #4
Its unique, patented redundancy Control
Memory Xchange (CMX) module, based
on reflective memory technology,
synchronizes your systems at the
beginning and end of each logic scan
execution to keep all variable data
the same—providing rapid and
bumpless switchover.
• Our quad-redundancy solution is a
revolutionary approach that offers all the
capabilities of the redundancy solution,
yet has four PACSystems redundant
controllers—a Master Controller and
three synchronized backup controllers.
It leverages Ethernet-based I/O that can
seamlessly arbitrate its I/O control from
one of the four controllers.
If the Master Controller or any of the
system components fail, the system
leverages GE’s patent pending predictive
intelligence algorithm to identify the
best backup controller to take over
and provide the system with the most
capability to withstand the next potential
sequence of multiple or cascaded
system failures.
CPU #1
Redundant
I/O Racks
Ethernet
RMX Redundancy Sync Link
Optional Redundant Redundancy Sync Link
PROFINET
With PACSystems High Availability,
if any part of your control system fails,
the backup counterpart automatically
assumes control to ensure
continuous operations.

A comprehensive approach
for continuous operations
GE’s open and modular mission critical control solutions support flexible
system integration and adaptability that adapts to changing business
requirements—without compromising high performance and availability.
Advanced Power
Management
Control and measurement of electrical
power systems is delivered by our
PACSystems RX3i Power Synchronization
and Measurement Interface. This
powerful interface enhances your ability
to maintain continuous operations and
increase efficiency with functionality that
enables synchronization of multiple onsite
backup power sources, monitoring of
power system status and fault detection,
collection of consumption metrics for
the purposes of demand penalty cost
reduction and load shedding during
peak operating periods.
Predictive Analytics for
Advanced Process
Management
Expand your mission critical solution
beyond the control layer with work
process management tools for day-today
operations such as alarm/process
exception handling and corrective actions,
maintenance management, and system
failover procedures.
Built on a service oriented architecture
(SOA) platform, Proficy Workflow is a
user-configurable, dynamic decision
making engine for integrating automated
and manual business and production
processes across system and departmental
boundaries—ensuring reliable, repeatable
process texecution that is critical to
continuous operations.
Secure by Design
Extensive testing under real-world
conditions is used to validate
performance and ensure that
each cyber-hardened platform
stands up to even the most
extreme conditions. GE’s RX3i
PLC passes all tests specified to
meet Achilles certification, the
industry-recognized standard for
communications robustness.
RX3i offers improved security
across the network through
an OPC UA protocol. OPC UA
provides encryption and certificate
management, making it difficult
for an attacker to impersonate a
legitimate device or insert itself
into the communication path
between devices.
GE is continually to enhancing
the security features of their
Automation & Controls platform
to adapt to a continually evolving
security climate.
Secure Development Lifecycle
Meticulous attention to detail in
the development process ensures
RX3i minimizes operating costs
while securely delivering maximum
availability.

PACSystems
Rack based multi-processor control
Compact Footprint
Maximize limited cabinet space with
a variety of rack sizes combined with
over 100 module options that adapt to
a wide range of applications.
Multiple Modules Performing as One
Communicate over a wider, faster
pipeline in a single rack or distributed
racks with powerful multi core CPUs,
unique control modules, and advanced
communication modules
Built-in Discovery Tools
Simple name based configurations
allow you to add 3rd party devices
easily.
On-line Repair
Easily diagnose
disturbances without
impacting system
operation
Hot-Swap
Whether in rack with
CPU or remote nodes, I/O
can be hot swapped and
keep systems running.
Need more power
add a supply on the fly!
Power supplies can be
used for adding power or
providing redundancy.
Profinet I/O
Save on wiring without
compromising performance.
1GB real time I/O networks
with built in switches, and
ability to do copper/fiber
combinations on board
provides flexibility while
saving cost and reducing
failure points
Advanced Security
Highest Availability
Achilles 2 certified for robustness against Survive breaks in the network and stay online
service attacks. Secure boot to prevent when a node is in maintenance mode with
malicious applications and “unauthorized” bumpless switchover.
operating systems. Trusted Platform Module
(TPM) on board
PACSystems RX3i includes the latest security features to help
protect data and processes from attacks and unauthorized access.
Secure User Authentication
Industry standard password generation
prevents unencrypted passwords from
being transmitted across the network.
Role-based Access Control
Industry standard password generation
prevents unencrypted passwords from
being transmitted across the network.
OPC UA Security
OPC UA provides encryption and certificate
management, making it difficult for an
attacker to impersonate a legitimate device
and insert itself into the communication
path between devices.
Signed Firmware Updates
Extensive testing ensures performance
under the most extreme network
conditions, such as “man in the middle”
and denial of service attacks.
Cyber-Hardened Platform
Extensive testing ensures performance
under the most extreme network
conditions, such as “man in the middle”
and denial of service attacks.
Physical Presence for
Application Changes
Front panel switch prevents update to the
application code and PLC firmware. This
option helps to prevent unauthorized
user access and tampering.

GE
Industrial Solutions
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Charlottesville, VA, 22911
1-800-433-2682 or 1-434-978-5100
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