GE Intelligent Platforms offers safety solutions specifically designed for process industry and factory automation applications. The process safety solutions include hardware features such as analog input validation, line fault detection, and output dynamic testing. To provide class-leading performance in all environments, the hardware can be operated between -40 and 70° C, are G3 conformal coated, and are resistant to 5G vibration and 30G shock. Software security features include programming security, programming change tracking, program validation with respect to language, coding, and references, and determination of trusted and safe data sources.

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PAC8000 SafetyNet

SafetyNet is part of the PAC8000 range - specifically designed to meet the needs of the Process Industry. A rugged product, it can be used standalone in SIL 2 ESD or Fire & Gas applications - and if standard IO is mounted on the SafetyNet node, it can be used as a tightly Integrated Control and Safety System.

Approvals
CE, CSA, FM, UL 
Safety standards
EN54-2, IEC 61508 up to SIL 2 for ESD and Fire & Gas, IEC 61511 up to SIL 2, NFPA 72, NFPA 85 
Network Interfaces
Modbus TCPIP, SafetyNet P2P for SIL 2 peer-to-peer, Modbus RTU 
Media
Copper 
Controller integration
PAC8000 SafetyNet 
Redundancy
Controller (for availability), LAN using Fault Tolerant Ethernet technology 
Software
IEC 61131 compliant 
Special Functions
 
Hardware Design
8-channel modules 
I/O Types
 
I/O scalability
Up to 64 modules 
Environmental Performance
-40°C to +70°C operating temperature 

VersaSafe Machine Safety

The VersaSafe distributed safety system provides a TUV-certified SIL 3 safety system that focuses on the critical control requirements of the production environment. By combining secure network connectivity, certified safety function blocks, an easy to use graphical programming environment, customers can efficiently integrate standards compliant safety capabilities while meeting increasingly stringent regulatory requirements.

 
CE, CUL, TUV, UL 
 
Category up to Cat 4, IEC 61508 up to SIL 3, IEC 62061 up to SIL CL 3, ISO 13849-1 up to PL e 
 
Profibus, Profinet 
 
Copper, Fiber 
 
PACsystems 
 
cable redundancy - MRP 
 
Extensive library of safety function blocks, Logic Simulation 
 
 
 
Slice I/O, IP 20 
 
 
 
from 16 safety I/O points up to 500 safety I/O points 
 
-25°C to +55°C operating temperature 

GMR

GMR offers unique flexibility in the way controllers and distributed I/O blocks can be arranged to provide a variety of options for safe and availability. Controllers and input modules can be simplex, duplex or triplex and outputs can be arranged in I, T or H configurations. It shares the same robust environmental performance as Genius I/O.

 
CE, CSA, FM, TUV, UL 
 
IEC 61508 up to SIL 3 
 
Genius 
 
Copper 
 
System 90-70 
 
Modules in H, I or T configuration,  
 
Compiled safety programme 
 
 
 
Block IO 
 
 
 
Based on Genius IO blocks 
 
0°C to +60°C operating temperature 


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