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TRANSPARENT PROCESS SWITCHOVER, EASY CONFIGURATION AND SCALABILITY FOR IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY
28 September 2004 - GE Fanuc Automation CNC Europe SA
| Echternach, Luxembourg – The new PACSystems High Availability solutions from
GE Fanuc Automation provide a scalable synchronised hot-standby redundant control platform, with transparent process switchover and easy configuration to ensure uptime in essential applications. These new High Availability solutions meet the demands of applications requiring seamless operation and zero downtime, where mere moments of interruption can significantly delay operational flow, create excessive operational costs, or pose a threat to product quality. |
Echternach, Luxembourg – The new PACSystems High Availability solutions from
GE Fanuc Automation provide a scalable synchronised hot-standby redundant control platform, with transparent process switchover and easy configuration to ensure uptime in essential applications. These new High Availability solutions meet the demands of applications requiring seamless operation and zero downtime, where mere moments of interruption can significantly delay operational flow, create excessive operational costs, or pose a threat to product quality. Developed with GE Fanuc's patented, leading-edge technology, PACSystems High Availability ensures not only maximum uptime but also transparent process switchover. This fast switchover has been measured at up to five times faster than other systems with large data transfers in time critical applications, helping users to realise up to 20% more production capacity. PACSystems High Availability solutions provide synchronised redundancy for any module in a control chain capable of bringing operations to a halt. Should any part of a controller fail, its backup counterpart automatically assumes control. PACSystems High Availability is suitable for a variety of applications in the areas of: • Offshore, Ships, Buoys, Windmills, Pipeline, Oil-Well Auxiliary Control, Remote Pumping Stations, Field Access Control and Sub-Sea Applications – where repair costs are very high due to the application's remote access.
• Crane Controls, Transport Systems, Fence Control, Bridge Controls, Airway Lighting, Turbine Auxiliary, HVAC or Water Treatment Systems – where downtime causes delay in the operational flow.
• Metal Mills, Cement Mixing, Oven Control or Semiconductor Manufacturing – where downtime causes increased material waste and/or damaged equipment. Transparent Process Switchover, Easy Configuration and Scalability
GE Fanuc combines the most advanced technologies to offer an industry-leading seamless redundant control switchover. With PACSystems High Availability, there is virtually no overhead added to the control application, making switchover fast and transparent. The control process and HMI/SCADA applications never see a 'bump' during a process switchover operation. This functionality maximises data capture, minimises system restarts and protects equipment, assuring maximum process productivity. Additionally, PACSystems High Availability delivers easier configuration through GE Fanuc's universal programming environment, ProficyŌ Machine Edition, and its Redundancy Wizard. Users can set up shared data and I/O for both systems in the redundant configuration in a matter of minutes. Application scalability and modifications are made easy, and the programmer modifies only the application code. The redundancy and data synchronisation are automatically ensured. With multiple and scalable ways to provide redundancy, a simple implementation can save up to 50% in control hardware cost versus traditional installations. PACSystems High Availability offers faster synchronisation, easy configuration and user-definable scalability, which drive the highest commissioning-to-production productivity possible. A PACSystems High Availability solution consists of two physically independent controllers connected to a variety of I/O, utilising a proven industrial network that provides deterministic data and automatic switchover. The controllers incorporate dedicated and redundant links to one another and operate synchronously, transferring all of the application's variables, status, and I/O data with each data sweep. The redundant link uses GE Fanuc's new PACSystems Control Memory Xchange for the fastest synchronisation, with little or no impact on the application program. PACSystems High Availability is a new offering in GE Fanuc's family of Critical Control and Simple Hot Standby Redundancy Systems.
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About: GE Fanuc Automation CNC Europe SA
GE Fanuc Automation Corporation, established in 1986, is a joint venture of General Electric Co. (GE), USA, one of the world’s largest, most diversified technology, manufacturing and service companies, with roughly 300,000 employees worldwide, and of FANUC Ltd., Japan, an automation pioneer with more than 30 years of experience in factory automation and the global leader in Computer Numerical Control (CNC) technology. GE Fanuc Automation Corporation develops products and solutions for the worldwide factory automation market. GE Fanuc Automation Europe, headquartered in Luxembourg, serves customers in Europe, Africa, the Near and Middle East. GE Fanuc Europe employs about 400 people in Luxembourg and at offices located in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Nordic Countries, the Czech Republic and is represented in Poland, Balkan, Dubai, North and South Africa. |
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