GE Energy
Measurement & Control Solutions
Mark* VIe Control
Migration from Mark V Control
fact sheet
You can now elegantly modernize your legacy Mark V control system to GE’s most advanced control platform, the Mark VIe, through a simple plug-and-play exchange of the electronic modules. With
no change to site wiring, panel terminations, turbine field devices, or panel size, the migration significantly expands your system’s capabilities while completely addressing all obsolescence issues. The solution ensures continued OEM support and the ability to grow and do more with your control system. It is designed to replace all Mark V control systems, except for those on LM (aeroderivative) turbines.
Benefits of Migrating Your Mark V to Mark VIe
•A complete control upgrade with reduced scope, risk, site disruption, cycle, and cost, installed in as few as five outage days
•Reset the clock on life cycle support – ensure availability of spare parts and OEM engineering support
•Increase turbine performance – substantially increased computer power and easily expandable I/O with many new types, enables incorporation of GE’s many advanced turbine offerings such as
Autotune, Turndown, Cooling Optimization, TILs, advance DLN, and more
•Increased reliability and availability through:
–Increased communications availability: eliminates single-point communication failures within the control and provides options for cost-effective network redundancy between controls
and HMIs
–Increased electrical surge and noise immunity
–Reduced time and effort to replace cards online with auto configuration
–Card diagnostic LEDs replaced with HMI diagnostics
–Advanced diagnostic/trending software tools with 1ms
SOE on all discrete I/O, configurable before and after commissioning on a point by point basis, with no rewiring
–Ability to incorporate proactive diagnostic devices and tools with the easily expandable I/O
–Identify false open contact readings through optional open wire detection for both cabinet and field wiring
–Available optional pluggable terminations on terminal boards
•Lower cost of ownership and maintenance with:
–Backward compatibility of many existing Mark V controller spares
–Single, powerful, easy-to-use software tool for plant operation, maintenance, diagnostics, and configuration of HMI application, networks, processors, and I/O boards
–Replacement of proprietary maintenance software, GUI, and networks with easy-to-use industry standards
–Elimination of jumpers and pluggable PROMs
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