Founded over 20 years ago by a core group of PLC programmers, Cybertech is one of Western Canada’s largest engineering firms specializing TÜV IEC61511 safety systems. 5% of Canada’s TÜV Rhineland Functional Safety Engineers work at Cybertech.
Cybertech completes PLC/SIS installations and system upgrades in a wide variety of industries. PLC/SIS-related work makes up approximately 60% of our 450+ yearly projects. Upgrading legacy systems and replacing obsolete/unsupported hardware represents a large portion of this work. Migrations are typically done during plant shutdowns, but Cybertech also has extensive experience doing online and on-the-run upgrades.
We can plan new control system architecture and provide complete turnkey solutions including the fabrication of cabinets/control panels along with procurement, installation and commissioning.
As of 2011, GE has discontinued support and availability of the GE 90/30 system. In 2013, they did the same for for 90/70 PLC systems. The TÜV-certified 90/70 Genius Modular Redundancy (GMR) system is also now unavailable.
The GE hardware migration path for non-SIL PLC systems is their PAC Systems. For SIL trip systems, they offer the PAC8000 controller as an upgrade (for applications up to SIL 2). For those plants that use GE 90/70 GMR for SIL 2+ systems, there is no direct GE hardware migration available – although GE does offer the Mark VIeS SIL 3 system.
If you are considering a migration from GE to another vendor, Cybertech has extensive experience migrating obsolete GE SIS systems to Schneider Triconex/Trident and Honeywell Safety Manager systems. For GE PLC, non-SIL systems, Cybertech can also evaluate migration paths to any of the other major PLC systems including:
To streamline migrations, Cybertech has developed GE software tools to automate these migrations.
Cybertech can:
Cybertech has developed automated software tools to automatically extract GE Logicmaster logic, Genius block configuration and GMR information. This data can be used to build a new application in another vendor system. The tools automatically validate the new configuration against the original. Data that is processed includes:
Data is stored in a database which can also be used to automatically generate test procedures and project documentation.
Cybertech’s tools:
Cybertech provides start-up and commissioning services with full documentation including:
Cybertech has extensive GE upgrade experience. Below are some recent sample projects where we operated as the Main Automation Contractor (MAC) for procurement, design, programming and commissioning.
GE Upgrade Path | I/O | Notes |
GE 90/70 GMR to Triconex | 100 I/O | Successful online migration of a process heater and feed pumps, extensive planning of impairments, mitigations and swingover procedures |
GE 90/70 GMR to Triconex | 10 I/O | Turnaround migration of a hexane process unit |
GE 90/70 GMR to Triconex | 220 I/O | Turnaround migration (36 hours) of a diesel hydro treater unit |
GE90/70 GMR to Trident | 50 I/O | On-the-run migration of building fire and gas protection system |
GE90/70 GMR to Trident | 10 I/O | On-the-run migration of a flare monitoring system |
GE 90/70 GMR to Triconex | 9 systems with over 6,500 I/O | Support for client to plan logistics, architecture, power/space/wiring infrastructure for a multi-year migration |