GE Digital RX3i CPL410 User Manual

Metro Control
Solutions

Optimizing Your Operations for the Future

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One-third of the world’s
major metros use GE
control systems to help get
people where they need to
go, safely and on time.

GE is responsible for the automation and
control of processes that generate one­third of the world’s power. For more than
130 years, we have delivered energy where
it is needed most.

We are also a leading provider of
automation and control products and
services for metro systems. One-third of
the world’s major metros use GE control
systems to help get people where they
need to go, safely and on time. We can help
optimize your equipment performance and
increase the reliability and efficiency of
your metro operations by connecting your
machines, data, insights, and people.

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Industrial Internet Control System for Metro

Unprecedented growth in urban
population is increasing ridership
of existing metro systems and
demand for new and improved
transportation solutions. In 2014,
54% of the global population
lived in urban areas; by 2050,
this number will climb to 66%.
But metro systems throughout
the world are showing their age,
resulting in disruptions, delays,
and even safety risks. Meanwhile,
transit authorities face a shortage
of experienced personnel,
rising costs, and tightening
environmental regulations.

Solutions to Meet Today’s Challenges

In today’s increasingly urban world, to improve your operations you
need a metro control system that is integrated, data-driven, and
accessible from anywhere.

To meet the challenges facing metro operations, GE has developed
integrated control solutions that provide a comprehensive view
and intuitive control of the disparate systems that make up a
subway network. GE’s Industrial Internet Control System (IICS)
makes it possible to actively monitor and dynamically regulate
processes throughout your metro system, reducing strain on
operators and improving overall system reliability.

Why GE?

We have extensive expertise with metro system
automation and control. GE offers:

• BAS Environmental Control (station ventilation,
lighting, conveyance, and other environmental
systems, monitor and control system of tunnel
ventilation)

• Power Monitoring System

• Shielded Gate System

• Traction Distribution Systems

• Subway Station Monitoring Systems

GE metro control systems

• Connect to cloud resources and perform advanced
analytics in the cloud or at edge nodes

• Scale from simplex unit control to high availability
redundant systems all the way to process control
solutions with a single portfolio of products with a
single run-time and toolset

• Include a broad portfolio of complementary products
for integrated solutions

– Fully Integrated VFDs

– Fully integrated industrial Ethernet switches

– IPCs and display panels

– Wireless communications

– Power equipment monitoring

– HMI/SCADA, Historian, and Web visualization

software

– Secure Predix Cloud, local storage, or third-party

cloud connectivity

• Are designed with security in mind, with features like
TPM, secure boot, signed firmware

• Meet industry security standards

• Include built-in software firewalls

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Take your industrial control system
to the next level.

The Industrial Internet Control System
(IICS) helps to improve your operational
efficiency by providing the ability to
access and use data from your facilities
to better understand patterns, trends,
and disparities in your control systems.
This helps to lower overall risk, total cost
of ownership, maintenance expense, and
unplanned downtime while increasing
overall performance and productivity.
Outcome Optimizing Controllers combine
reliable and secure controls with data
acquisition management in a single unit.

Choose to send and manage data on­premise or in the cloud with the flexibility
to use convenient Predix*-enabled
Embedded Field Agent technology or
PACEdge, which enables specific Linux­based applications and access to your
preferred cloud environment.

(Sources : Morgan Stanle y Research; Globa l Capital Good s, “Insight: C loud Control – Th e Future of Indust rial Automation”, Mar ch 15, 2016”)

Of customers said they have a talent gap for
gathering and consolidating disparate data

The % of industrial companies who believe it’s
important to adopt an Industrial Internet of
Things Strategy the next over the next 5 years

The average % of industrial companies who
indicate big data analytics is the TOP priority for
their company, or in the top 3

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Unlock Hidden Value Through Controls

Optimize Asset & Process Performance

• Securely collect and integrate data across
the plant

• Analyze data on-premise or in the cloud

New Revenue Opportunities for SIs
and OEMs

• Develop new data-driven service offerings
for end customers

• Maintain competitive advantage through
continuous software-based innovation

Maximize Productivity

• Drop in complete, cyber-secure IIoT solutions
or use our Linux-based platform to develop
your own scripts and applications in a
standard Linux environment

• Reduce maintenance cost through
monitoring and diagnostics

Transform the Equipment Lifecyle

• Select the right on-ramp to the Industrial
Internet for either greenfield or brownfield
applications (no retrofit required)

• Eliminate the impact of component
obsolescence through modular hardware,
firmware, and software

Choose from Two Outcome Optimizing Control Options:

CPE400 + Embedded Field Agent

Predix Machine provides:

CPL410 + PACEdge for Linux

PACEdge with Linux provides:

Automated OPC UA Client for data collection from
CPE400 PLC runtime

OPC UA Client for data collection from CPL410 PLC runtime

Hoover data collection and aggregation SQL_Lite database for datacolleciton and aggregation

REST for secure cloud connectivity to PREDIX cloud Webserver with HTTPS Support to connect to your preferred cloud

Predix enabled Edge Applications

Develop your own scripts and applications in a standard Linux
environment

JAVA/C/C++ support for Predix Apps C/C++/Python development environment for Edge Apps

Predix Edge Manager to deploy and manage your devices

Poll for

Insights

Safe, secure

deterministic

control

Predix

Machine

Outcome

Optimizing

Analyze and

Advise

Connect directly to your local storage solution or download
standard tools to connect to your choice of cloud services.

Poll for

Insights

Safe, secure

deterministic

control

PACEdge

Outcome

Optimizing

Analyze and

Advise

Public or Private

Cloud

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Open Communication Protocols

Open standards allow equipment from
multiple vendors to work together
seamlessly for the end application. This
ease of interoperability allows systems to
be combined, and reduces the skill level
required to do so.

Cyber Security

We understand the risk involved
in securing our customers’ assets
and believe in a defense-in-depth
architecture to help secure from
the hardware layer up, guarding
against potential cyber threats. Our
PACSystems platform has earned
Achilles and TRIMPS certifications. GE
implements a secure design lifecycle,
scrutinizing each components’
hardware and software through
testing and reviews.

At GE, we realize that the control
system must be secure by design and
should have a hardware root of trust
as the foundation of all the security
constructs in the control system. For
our IICS portfolio, all our controllers
now come with Trusted Platform
module (TPM) technology that enables
hardware root of trust. All boot
firmware is signed by GE with the
private key stored in the TPM module
to ensure only GE signed firmware
will run on the hardware. GE supplied
patches are also signed for verification
purposes prior to loading.

Development, deployment,
and commissioning
become easier

• Code can be reused with the ability
to define standard objects and a
fixed, yet flexible, API allows for rapid
development and modifications.

• Metrics and historical data from
disparate vendors and systems are
integrated

Achilles Level 2 Certification

RX3i has been industry-certified to
meet rigorous standards for reliability
and communications robustness. Its
cyber-hardened platform is designed
to help prevent cyber attacks,
reducing operational risks.

Role-Based Access Control

Privileges assigned to users are based
on pre-defined levels of authorization,
enhancing system security. This
provides layered user access, allowing
only specific user access to critical
competitive and customer data.

Secure User Authentication

Access to the controller is
implemented using an authentication
process that does not require
passwords to be passed over
the network. This helps prevent
an attacker from eavesdropping
and collecting credentials from
the network that would provide
unauthorized access to the controller.

Provisions are built-in for
communications security

• Data and associated attributes are
transferred collectively to reduce the
likelihood of a data mix-up

• Common APIs reduce the likelihood of
coding errors, reducing vulnerabilities in
the application

Signed Firmware Updates

Signed firmware updates help ensure
only core operating system software
supplied by GE will run on the PLC and
that it has not been tampered with
since it left the factory. This prevents
code that has been compromised from
entering the controller, protecting
system availability and valuable
operation information.

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Flexible Architectures to Fit Your Needs

Flexible and scalable solutions allow a for
multitude of existing infrastructure and
applications to reap the benefits of our
metro solutions.

• Same tool chain across our solutions:
Manage controls, Industrial Ethernet
Switches, and VFDs from one
integrated tool

• Link to Predix, local storage, or cloud
storage directly for Outcome
Optimizing Control

CIMPLICITY

Client

CIMPLICITY

Redundant Servers

• Simple retrofit on top of any existing
vendor or mix of vendors

• Seamless integration of environmental
and electrical systems with built-in
protocol and power monitoring

• Single HMI solution for local, remote,
and even Web interface with one tool

• Best-in-class high availability solution
for control applications improves
performance, reliability, and availability

Based on Proficy CIMPLICITY Comprehensive Monitoring System

CIMPLICITY

Historian

Fiber Backbone

Industrial Switch Industrial Switch

Optional

Field

Agent

SMS/

Pagers

Redundant
Controllers

• PROFINET System Redundancy enabled
VFDs reduce system installation cost
up to 15% and simplify monitoring and
maintenance of VFD applications

Built-in power protocol and power monitoring
mean seamless integration of environmental
and electrical systems

Mobile Devices

Mobile

Devices

Web/Remote
Maintenance

Power Comms
Controllers

CIMPLICITY

Runtime

Operator
Interface

Based on CIMPLICITY

integrated monitoring

system (station level)

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Local HMI

Valve
Controls

Drives & Soft Starters

Drives & Soft Starters

Based on PROFINET Ring Architecture - BAS and MCC control system

Local HMI

Valve
Controls

Simplex
Controller

Line
Cabinet

Line
Cabinet

Remote
Line
Cabinet

Based on PACSystems RX3i,

the easy to use control solution

Protection
Device

Smart
Meter

Customer Successes

GE customers have successfully deployed our flexible and
scalable metro solutions around the globe.

Major Chinese Metro Line

As usage increases, this metro line will produce more
heat and noxious gas in underground spaces, resulting in
environmental deterioration in the stations.

To address this issue, GE upgraded the BAS system, using
two-level control and real-time monitoring for various
stations, drainage and fire ventilation and air conditioning,
lighting system, elevator and escalator, shielding door,
air defense closed, flood gate and other mechanical
and electrical equipment operation using PACSystems
controllers and VersaMax I/O.

The system is connected to the project control center and
the center stage equipment monitoring system.

European Metro System

The underground public transportation network in this
European capital is the continent’s most-used on a per
capita basis. Comprised of 3 lines, 57 stations and nearly
60 kms of mostly underground railways, this metro system
has relied on GE to help ensure the uptime of its critical
applications for:

• Escalators and elevator controls

• Ventilation systems in the stations and tunnels

• Water drainage

• Electricity supply to stations in the transformer center

A recent modernization and expansion project upgraded
the existing control system with GE’s PACSystems solutions
to help increase performance.This project met customer
requirements for cost effectiveness and ease of migration.

United States Mass Transit System

A major city’s transit authority uses a mix of control
vendors for station automation throughout their metro
network. They turned to GE to help determine the cause
of system failures quickly and reliably, without interrupting
their current controls solution.

GE deployed a monitoring solution on top of the existing
control solution. It consists of CIMPLICITY Historian
software on an IPC for local collection and storage, but
direct connection to the existing SCADA system via
Modbus/TCP from RSTi-EP Remote I/O drops. The solution
provides real-time remote monitoring and diagnostics
from a central control station and emergency local data
storage in the event of network outages.

Large Metropolitan Auto Tunnel

A traffic tunnel in a large American city, consisting of two
tubes with two lanes of traffic each, is over one mile in
length and handles over 27 million vehicles per year. The
tunnel’s two ventilation buildings bring three million cubic
feet of fresh air into the tunnels each minute, and provide
a complete air change every 90 seconds.

Fixing damage caused by a devastating storm, GE
refurbished and updated the tunnel systems, providing
state-of-the art control systems for the ventilation and
parallel switchgear controls using RX3i PLCs, VersaMax
remote I/O, QuickPanel+ for local visualization and
CIMPLICITY Historian software.

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