The Mark * VIeS Functional Safety System reflects GE' s experience of three-plus decades, four generations, and over 10,000 installed Triple Modular Redundant(TMR) systems.
The Mark VIeS is certified to IEC 61508 standards to meet the needs of the majority of safety requirements – SIL 2 and SIL 3.
In today's world of brilliant machines,operators require high-performance automation solutions that seamlessly connect their machines, data, and people while ensuring the safety and integrity of their process and equipment.
The Mark VIeS Functional Safety System is born from a decades-long heritage of turbine protection and control. The Mark VIeS system is a cost-effective, complete,flexible, and reliable functional safety system with enhanced cyber security for critical processes such as plant emergency shutdown, burner management, critical process control, and fire and gas detection applications.
A proven and safe solution:
GE brings decades of domain expertise to the Mark VIeS Functional Safety System. The Mark series of controllers has earned a reputation for superior running reliability and superior tripping reliability when required in thousands of TMR systems installed in power generation and infrastructure applications globally. These proven philosophies are atthe heart of the Mark VIeS Functional Safety System.
Flexibility and reliability:
Redundancy is a critical feature in safety control system design, enabling continuous process operation during system maintenance or repair. The Ethernet backbone of the Mark VIeS Functional Safety System allows each segment of the system to be configured with different levels of redundancy as follows:
• Can be: Simplex, Dual, or TMR
• I/Onetwork (IONet) communications can be: Simplex, Dual, or TMR
• I/O modules can be: Simplex or TMR
This flexibility enables customers to design their system to meet the exact needs of their SIL application requirements, and ultimately reducing system costs.Customers can customize the level of redundancy to meet safety and running reliability needs.
Enhanced productivity and efficiency:
Sophisticated application automation tools and seamless data integration between the control system and Humanmachine Interface (HMI) enable process efficiencies during project execution to reduce delivered cost and improve quality.Enhanced software reusability features allow users to create and maintain logic standards that can then be efficiently deployed over and over again. This reduces project costs, increases the integrity of software, and reduces the risk of human error. All of these are critical considerations when deploying safety related systems.