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Bently Nevada Announces TÜV Functional Safety Certification for 3500 Series Machinery Protection System |
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For more information: Steve Sabin Marketing Communications Manager Bently Nevada 1631 Bently Parkway South Minden, Nevada, USA 89423 Phone: 775-215-2291 Fax: 775-215-2864 E-mail: steve.sabin@bently.com  Hi-resolution .jpg file (245KB) For other image formats, contact tannis.causey@bently.com. |
MINDEN, NV (January 2, 2003) - Bently Nevada, The Plant Asset Management CompanySM, today announced that its industry-leading platform for protecting machinery, the 3500 Series, is now available with TÜV functional safety certification and the supporting data needed to determine Safety Integrity Levels (SILs). The certification simplifies application of the product in high-integrity situations, addressed in global standards such as IEC 61511, IEC 61508, and ISA SP84.01, where reliability/availability of the instrumentation must be documented and meet specific criteria, ranging from SIL 1 to SIL 3. Although tens of thousands of customers already use Bently Nevada products to protect their machines in auto-shutdown applications, there is increased emphasis being placed on quantifying and documenting the integrity of an instrumentation system. Certain applications, particularly overspeed detection, are considered safety-related, and TÜV functional safety certification is a common customer requirement. Additionally, any application of machinery protection systems where the safety or economics of a process make a missed or false trip unacceptable may result in requirements to quantify the instrumentation’s ability to perform at or above specified SIL targets. Brian Palmer, Bently Nevada’s President, is enthused about the new doors this opens for the 3500 System. "3500’s ability to reliably address even the highest integrity applications has always been present. But now, the independent certification of TÜV allows us to take the same, proven transducers and 3500 monitoring hardware that we’ve been offering all along, yet apply them more easily and in more places where integrity must be quantified." TÜV certification is available for specific configurations of 3500/53 overspeed tachometer modules and 3500/40 or /42 modules when used for overspeed, vibration, and thrust position applications. Introduced in 1995, the 3500 Series System protects over 20,000 critical rotating machines around the globe. Bently Nevada (www.bently.com), The Plant Asset Management CompanySM, is a leading global supplier of products and services for assessing and ensuring the mechanical and thermodynamic health of industrial equipment. The company maintains nearly 100 offices in the principal industrial centers of 43 countries around the globe, serving a broad base of more than 25,000 customers in the power generation, petrochemical, and numerous other industries. Bently Nevada is a GE Power Systems business (www.gepower.com). The Plant Asset Management Company is a service mark of Bently Nevada, LLC in the United States and other countries. |
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