Patent ID: 11914347
Assignee: GE INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving a selection of a first safety architecture of a protection system configured to transition between the first safety architecture and a second safety architecture of the protection system configured to monitor an industrial system, the protection system comprising an input base, a controller base, and an output base, the input base being non coupled to the controller base, the input base, the controller base, and the output base comprising a plurality of processing channels, the controller base being configured to execute a voting logic, wherein each processing channel of the plurality of processing channels independently makes a determination of a state of the industrial system and comprises an input circuit coupled to the input base, a controller coupled to the controller base, and an output circuit coupled to the output base;
altering, based on the selection, a number of processing channels of the plurality of processing channels of the protection system to operate in a first configuration associated with the first safety architecture, wherein the plurality of processing channels releasably coupled to the protection system to vary an operation of the industrial system, wherein the number of processing channels is different between the first configuration for the first safety architecture and a second configuration for the second safety architecture; and
determining, based on the selection, the voting logic comprising a first voting logic associated with the first safety architecture.