Software enables online machine condition monitoring.
Press Release Summary:
System 1® v6.0 provides condition monitoring, optimization, and diagnostics platform with support for state-based capabilities. This allows discrete machinery conditions such as machine on/off or various load states to be used when performing diagnostics and compiling trends. In addition, software also offers set of analytic processes for handling stepless unloaders within Bently Nevada(TM) Reciprocating Machinery Application Package.
Original Press Release:
GE Energy Announces Release 6.0 of System 1® Software
ATLANTA, GA.-March 22, 2006-GE Energy today announced the release of version 6.0 of System 1® software, its industry-leading condition monitoring, optimization and diagnostics platform. Initially released in 2000, the software now is in use by more than 2,000 sites globally and represents the world's most widely used software of its kind for online condition monitoring of industrial machinery.
Release 6.0 combines numerous enhancements that increase the diagnostic power of the software while making it easier to order, install, use and maintain. Among the platform's many enhancements are two for which U.S. patents are pending. The first is support for state-based capabilities, allowing discrete machinery conditions, such as machine on/off or various load states, to be used when performing diagnostics and compiling trends. The second is a set of special analytic processes for handling stepless unloaders within the Bently Nevada(TM) Reciprocating Machinery Application Package. Users also will find nearly 50 other powerful enhancements in release 6.0.
Commenting on this latest release, Dan Heintzelman, president of GE Energy's services business, said, "With several thousand sites relying on System 1 software as part of their asset management strategy, we have an incredibly valuable resource for helping us improve the product: our customers. Release 6.0 combines many of our customers' most frequently requested enhancements with a commercial structure that better reflects their needs. It's easier to purchase, easier to install, easier to maintain and easier to use - all the things our customers have told us are important to them."
System 1 software is part of GE Energy's portfolio of optimization and diagnostic software, dedicated to mechanical and thermodynamic condition monitoring, process optimization, heat balance modeling and reliability enhancement. With operations in Minden, Nev. and offices in the principal industrial centers of over 40 countries, GE's optimization and diagnostic software business unit serves global customers in the power generation, petrochemical and other industries.
About GE Energy
GE Energy (www.ge.com/energy) is one of the world's leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technologies, with 2005 revenue of $16.5 billion. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, GE Energy works in all areas of the energy industry including coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear energy; renewable resources such as water, wind, solar and biogas; and other alternative fuels. Numerous GE Energy products are certified under ecomagination, GE's corporate-wide initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing environmental challenges
For more information, contact:
Dennis Murphy
GE Energy
(678) 844 6948
dennis.murphy@ps.ge.com
