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GE<br />
Industrial <strong>Solutions</strong><br />
<strong>Mission</strong> <strong>Critical</strong> Control<br />
<strong>Power</strong> & Cooling System <strong>Solutions</strong><br />
GE's critical control solutions utilize redundancy and high<br />
performance computing to provide the highest level of<br />
availability for critical data center infrastucture.
<strong>Mission</strong> <strong>Critical</strong> Control<br />
<strong>Power</strong> & Cooling Systems<br />
<strong>Solutions</strong> for Zero Downtime<br />
GE’s solutions for the control,<br />
monitoring and transfer of power<br />
to/from alternative energy sources<br />
enable clean power alternatives to<br />
help achieve sustainability goals.<br />
Alternative Energy<br />
• High Availability Control<br />
• <strong>Power</strong> Synchronization<br />
and Measurement<br />
• HMI/SCADA<br />
• Historian<br />
HVAC, Chillers, Cooling Towers<br />
• High Availability Control<br />
• HMI/SCADA<br />
• Historian<br />
• Sequence of Event Recording<br />
• Work Process Management<br />
Emergency - Standby <strong>Power</strong><br />
• High Availability Control<br />
• <strong>Power</strong> Synchronization<br />
and Measurement<br />
• HMI/SCADA<br />
• Historian<br />
• Sequence of Event Recording<br />
• Work Process Management<br />
Parallel <strong>Power</strong> Switching<br />
• High Availability Control<br />
• <strong>Power</strong> Synchronization and Measurement<br />
• HMI/SCADA<br />
• Historian<br />
• Sequence of Event Recording<br />
• Work Process Management
Expertise, experience<br />
and commitment<br />
To meet increasing critical power demand, GE’s innovative<br />
technologies and unique offerings include value-added specialized<br />
support and services that can help your business succeed.<br />
Product breadth<br />
and open platform<br />
Our comprehensive suite of software<br />
and hardware products includes high<br />
availability control, HMI/SCADA, data<br />
collection, and work process management<br />
to help you achieve your mission critical<br />
power applications with continuous<br />
system availability. Built on a high<br />
performance and open and layered<br />
platform, our products are modular,<br />
configurable and scalable—addressing<br />
today’s needs and those of tomorrow.<br />
Reliable, innovative<br />
technologies<br />
Our mission critical power solutions<br />
leverage the latest technologies,<br />
expertise, and proven methodologies<br />
such as Six Sigma and Lean techniques.<br />
We are continually investing in our<br />
powerful product technologies to<br />
keep customers ahead of the curve<br />
with capabilities that deliver<br />
measurable results.<br />
Partnering for success<br />
Based on our proven methodology,<br />
we ensure rapid and high-quality<br />
implementation of our advanced<br />
technology solutions to maximize your<br />
return on investment. You can rely on<br />
our technical know-how, best practices,<br />
and innovation to successfully define,<br />
configure, and install our solutions in<br />
your mission critical environment—for<br />
improved performance, efficiency,<br />
and availability.<br />
Global customer support<br />
Starting from the moment we engage<br />
with your project to its successful<br />
completion and ongoing maintenance,<br />
we never forget that uptime is directly<br />
correlated to your profitability. With a<br />
global presence, our GlobalCare* support<br />
provides local and prompt technical<br />
support and product expertise where and<br />
when you need it.<br />
OEM Edge Program<br />
We offer an innovative program designed<br />
specifically for our OEM customers to<br />
help maximize productivity and grow their<br />
businesses. OEM Edge members have<br />
exclusive access to a wealth of proven<br />
solutions and custom tools such as<br />
development software, proof of concept<br />
hardware, conversion services, product<br />
rebranding capabilities, training,<br />
and more.<br />
Trusted GE brand<br />
As one of the most trusted names in the<br />
world, GE is committed to partnering with<br />
you for the long term, providing the most<br />
advanced technology solutions to address<br />
your critical business needs.<br />
“We prefer to use GE solutions<br />
because over the broad spectrum of<br />
devices, the GE family coordinates<br />
a package of power products and<br />
controls along with its software that<br />
meets our needs and the needs of<br />
our customers. Superior technical<br />
support has always been one of our<br />
requirements in vendor selection, and<br />
GE has never failed to perform in<br />
both site support and product<br />
selection assistance.”<br />
Gary Butcher<br />
President<br />
<strong>Critical</strong> <strong>Power</strong> Consultants
Minimize downtime, minimize risk<br />
for improved profitability.<br />
GE's Automation & Controls <strong>Solutions</strong> ensure<br />
operational availability and secure reliability while<br />
lowering total cost of ownership.<br />
The costly impact of an unplanned power<br />
outage can lead to lost productivity,<br />
profitability, and customer satisfaction,<br />
making it imperative to ensure the highest<br />
level of system reliability and availability at<br />
all times. Businesses that host critical data<br />
and services such as data centers, medical<br />
care, and e-commerce must mitigate<br />
potential risk with a control system<br />
foundation that provides secure reliability<br />
and the highest level of availability.<br />
Automation & Controls understands the<br />
criticality of uptime. Combining innovative,<br />
advanced technologies and deep domain<br />
expertise in mission-critical power, we<br />
offer proven high performance solutions<br />
that integrate high availability control,<br />
visualization, and analytics for your<br />
essential applications—enabling continuous<br />
operations and increased uptime.<br />
GE is at the forefront of providing<br />
technology solutions that deliver “nearzero”<br />
downtime with unique and flexible<br />
capabilities for businesses that cannot<br />
afford any compromise in system<br />
performance.<br />
Companies around the world have<br />
implemented GE’s mission critical power<br />
solutions to realize value-added results for<br />
a sustainable competitive advantage:<br />
• Maximized uptime – Best in class<br />
high availability control solution is<br />
designed for maximum uptime and<br />
concurrent maintainability.<br />
• Flexibility – Open and scalable<br />
architectures built on advanced<br />
technology allow for greater efficiency<br />
and lower total cost of ownership to<br />
protect current and future investments.<br />
• Intelligence – Advanced computational<br />
capability provides the granular data<br />
needed for predictive analytics for better,<br />
faster decision making.<br />
GE is at the forefront of providing<br />
technology solutions that deliver<br />
“near-zero” downtime with unique and<br />
flexible capabilities for businesses<br />
that cannot afford any compromise in<br />
system performance.
High availability control<br />
PACSystems * programmable automation<br />
controllers are built on a scalable,<br />
synchronized, hot-standby redundancy<br />
control platform, thereby ensuring<br />
uninterrupted control of your applications<br />
and processes with total transparency and<br />
seamless switchover control.<br />
Both the VME-based PACSystems RX7i<br />
and the PCI-based PACSystems RX3i<br />
controllers provide powerful CPUs and<br />
high-bandwidth backplanes. They also<br />
enable connectivity to various I/O on a<br />
proven industrial network that provides<br />
real-time communications, deterministic<br />
data transfers, and automatic switchover<br />
for continuous operations.<br />
Programmer (PME)<br />
RMX<br />
HMI/SCADA<br />
Workflow<br />
CPU #2<br />
You can choose from our two highavailability<br />
architectures to meet<br />
your needs:<br />
• Our redundancy solution consists<br />
of two physically independent<br />
PACSystems controllers that offer true<br />
redundancy data synchronization with<br />
dual modules.<br />
Historian<br />
The controllers have dedicated,<br />
redundant links to one another and<br />
operate synchronously with virtually<br />
no overhead added to the control<br />
application—transferring all of your<br />
application’s variables, status, and<br />
I/O data on every scan with speed<br />
and transparency.<br />
CPU #3<br />
RMX<br />
CPU #4<br />
Its unique, patented redundancy Control<br />
Memory Xchange (CMX) module, based<br />
on reflective memory technology,<br />
synchronizes your systems at the<br />
beginning and end of each logic scan<br />
execution to keep all variable data<br />
the same—providing rapid and<br />
bumpless switchover.<br />
• Our quad-redundancy solution is a<br />
revolutionary approach that offers all the<br />
capabilities of the redundancy solution,<br />
yet has four PACSystems redundant<br />
controllers—a Master Controller and<br />
three synchronized backup controllers.<br />
It leverages Ethernet-based I/O that can<br />
seamlessly arbitrate its I/O control from<br />
one of the four controllers.<br />
If the Master Controller or any of the<br />
system components fail, the system<br />
leverages GE’s patent pending predictive<br />
intelligence algorithm to identify the<br />
best backup controller to take over<br />
and provide the system with the most<br />
capability to withstand the next potential<br />
sequence of multiple or cascaded<br />
system failures.<br />
CPU #1<br />
Redundant<br />
I/O Racks<br />
Ethernet<br />
RMX Redundancy Sync Link<br />
Optional Redundant Redundancy Sync Link<br />
PROFINET<br />
With PACSystems High Availability,<br />
if any part of your control system fails,<br />
the backup counterpart automatically<br />
assumes control to ensure<br />
continuous operations.
A comprehensive approach<br />
for continuous operations<br />
GE’s open and modular mission critical control solutions support flexible<br />
system integration and adaptability that adapts to changing business<br />
requirements—without compromising high performance and availability.<br />
Advanced <strong>Power</strong><br />
Management<br />
Control and measurement of electrical<br />
power systems is delivered by our<br />
PACSystems RX3i <strong>Power</strong> Synchronization<br />
and Measurement Interface. This<br />
powerful interface enhances your ability<br />
to maintain continuous operations and<br />
increase efficiency with functionality that<br />
enables synchronization of multiple onsite<br />
backup power sources, monitoring of<br />
power system status and fault detection,<br />
collection of consumption metrics for<br />
the purposes of demand penalty cost<br />
reduction and load shedding during<br />
peak operating periods.<br />
Predictive Analytics for<br />
Advanced Process<br />
Management<br />
Expand your mission critical solution<br />
beyond the control layer with work<br />
process management tools for day-today<br />
operations such as alarm/process<br />
exception handling and corrective actions,<br />
maintenance management, and system<br />
failover procedures.<br />
Built on a service oriented architecture<br />
(SOA) platform, Proficy Workflow is a<br />
user-configurable, dynamic decision<br />
making engine for integrating automated<br />
and manual business and production<br />
processes across system and departmental<br />
boundaries—ensuring reliable, repeatable<br />
process texecution that is critical to<br />
continuous operations.<br />
Secure by Design<br />
Extensive testing under real-world<br />
conditions is used to validate<br />
performance and ensure that<br />
each cyber-hardened platform<br />
stands up to even the most<br />
extreme conditions. GE’s RX3i<br />
PLC passes all tests specified to<br />
meet Achilles certification, the<br />
industry-recognized standard for<br />
communications robustness.<br />
RX3i offers improved security<br />
across the network through<br />
an OPC UA protocol. OPC UA<br />
provides encryption and certificate<br />
management, making it difficult<br />
for an attacker to impersonate a<br />
legitimate device or insert itself<br />
into the communication path<br />
between devices.<br />
GE is continually to enhancing<br />
the security features of their<br />
Automation & Controls platform<br />
to adapt to a continually evolving<br />
security climate.<br />
Secure Development Lifecycle<br />
Meticulous attention to detail in<br />
the development process ensures<br />
RX3i minimizes operating costs<br />
while securely delivering maximum<br />
availability.
PACSystems<br />
Rack based multi-processor control<br />
Compact Footprint<br />
Maximize limited cabinet space with<br />
a variety of rack sizes combined with<br />
over 100 module options that adapt to<br />
a wide range of applications.<br />
Multiple Modules Performing as One<br />
Communicate over a wider, faster<br />
pipeline in a single rack or distributed<br />
racks with powerful multi core CPUs,<br />
unique control modules, and advanced<br />
communication modules<br />
Built-in Discovery Tools<br />
Simple name based configurations<br />
allow you to add 3rd party devices<br />
easily.<br />
On-line Repair<br />
Easily diagnose<br />
disturbances without<br />
impacting system<br />
operation<br />
Hot-Swap<br />
Whether in rack with<br />
CPU or remote nodes, I/O<br />
can be hot swapped and<br />
keep systems running.<br />
Need more power<br />
add a supply on the fly!<br />
<strong>Power</strong> supplies can be<br />
used for adding power or<br />
providing redundancy.<br />
Profinet I/O<br />
Save on wiring without<br />
compromising performance.<br />
1GB real time I/O networks<br />
with built in switches, and<br />
ability to do copper/fiber<br />
combinations on board<br />
provides flexibility while<br />
saving cost and reducing<br />
failure points<br />
Advanced Security<br />
Highest Availability<br />
Achilles 2 certified for robustness against Survive breaks in the network and stay online<br />
service attacks. Secure boot to prevent when a node is in maintenance mode with<br />
malicious applications and “unauthorized” bumpless switchover.<br />
operating systems. Trusted Platform Module<br />
(TPM) on board<br />
PACSystems RX3i includes the latest security features to help<br />
protect data and processes from attacks and unauthorized access.<br />
Secure User Authentication<br />
Industry standard password generation<br />
prevents unencrypted passwords from<br />
being transmitted across the network.<br />
Role-based Access Control<br />
Industry standard password generation<br />
prevents unencrypted passwords from<br />
being transmitted across the network.<br />
OPC UA Security<br />
OPC UA provides encryption and certificate<br />
management, making it difficult for an<br />
attacker to impersonate a legitimate device<br />
and insert itself into the communication<br />
path between devices.<br />
Signed Firmware Updates<br />
Extensive testing ensures performance<br />
under the most extreme network<br />
conditions, such as “man in the middle”<br />
and denial of service attacks.<br />
Cyber-Hardened Platform<br />
Extensive testing ensures performance<br />
under the most extreme network<br />
conditions, such as “man in the middle”<br />
and denial of service attacks.<br />
Physical Presence for<br />
Application Changes<br />
Front panel switch prevents update to the<br />
application code and PLC firmware. This<br />
option helps to prevent unauthorized<br />
user access and tampering.
GE<br />
Industrial <strong>Solutions</strong><br />
2500 Austin Dr<br />
Charlottesville, VA, 22911<br />
1-800-433-2682 or 1-434-978-5100<br />
www.geautomation.com<br />
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