04/11/2014 GOVERNANCE PLATFORM CONVERSION - GE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY GE Intelligent Platforms announces its plan to consolidate its industrial Internet-based management platforms. The convergence strategy began with cross-platform standardization of open systems to ensure secure communications, interoperability, and optimized user experience for customers. GE Intelligent Platforms is investing in the development of a single, integrated Ethernet architecture, modular components and software applications based on industry standards. As convergence progresses, the connecting control devices will have more and more powerful capabilities to influence objects subordinate to them, and software applications will provide local intelligent control via the industrial Internet and machine-to-Machine communication (Machine-to-Machine or M2M). OPC-UA is the first open systems standard to be implemented across all GE control platforms. It belongs to the next generation of Open Productivity & Connectivity standards, which provide a single, reliable and secure cross-platform framework for accessing current and historical data and events. The OPC-UA standard is compliant with GE connected management platforms, including the popular PACSystems and Mark Vie controllers, and Proficy® CIMPLICITY HMI / SCADA software. In addition, the controllers fully support the two most common I / O standards, PROFINET and Foundation Fieldbus (Mark VIe only). GE is committed to providing a single, integrated architecture for all control platforms that can provide customers with enhanced system design capabilities through: Enterprise-wide transparency: A dedicated application transfers production data in control systems from the bottom up - from the device level to the enterprise level. Interoperability: The common architecture and standard suite of communication protocols used by the enterprise deterministic bus allows the solution to expand as the business evolves. Design consistency: translation and convergence of design tools and model libraries accelerates development, productivity, and quality. To make it as easy as possible to leverage our customers' user experience, GE's Software Center has unveiled Predix ™, the first industrial software platform that will be used by all of our control systems to securely exchange large amounts of data, both between machines and between machines and people. Predix provides distributed analysis and computing, asset management, and flexible machine-to-machine communication capabilities that can be implemented on your own hardware. New solutions that complement the platform can seamlessly integrate customer software and data management infrastructure to improve productivity, reduce waste and streamline business operations. About TECHNOLINK: TECHNOLINK is an authorized distributor and supplier of GE Intelligent Platforms solutions in the field of industrial automation. We offer our customers reliable and technically advanced solutions based on the most modern technologies and providing them with significant advantages in any field of activity. Together with regional partners, TECHNOLINK provides consultations on the selection of optimal technical solutions, delivery, warranty and post-warranty service, training, assistance in system integration, as well as complex solutions for the creation of automated systems - from design to commissioning.