Fault tolerant control system platform emerges from GE Fanuc

Its new system is aimed specifically at mitigating risks of downtime and safety concerns on plants in these sectors, and the company claims reduced total cost of ownership for users. Its new system is based on GE Fanuc’s PACSystems Rx7i and Rx3i control platforms, and is able to manage a large number of mission critical distributed I/O at high speed. “Unscheduled downtime in mission critical manufacturing and infrastructure operations can be catastrophic, resulting not only in loss of revenue, but compromising the safety of the operation,” says Mickaël Desloges, European product manager for Process Control at GE Fanuc Automation. “With the combination of a high-performance central processor, distributed I/O and a 100Mbps network, users will be able to manage a larger number of I/O and a larger number of remote drops at speeds far greater than was previously possible.” There are several versions of the new system able to handle different user requirements around numbers of I/O, scan times, primary to secondary fail-over times, fault tolerance and cost.