System Overview ProSafe-COM 3.00
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Preface
Company profile
A part of Yokogawa company is active in the field of design and engineering of control and safety
systems. The products are worldwide used as emergency shutdown, process shutdown or fire & gas
systems in oil and gas exploration, petrochemical and nuclear industries.
ProSafe safety systems
From its founding days, the safety division of Yokogawa Europe Solutions BV has enterprised solid-state
safety systems emerging in a product that is nowadays referred to as ProSafe-SLS. It is a unique, inherent
fail-safe technology. It combines a very high safety level with a very high availability level.
The ProSafe-SLS technology is TÜV AK-7 / SIL4 certified.
In 1997 the safety division of Yokogawa Europe Solutions BV introduced the ProSafe-PLC. ProSafe-PLC
is TÜV certified up to AK-6 / SIL3. It is highly scalable and can be easily tailored.
To enable communication between the ProSafe systems and other systems like e.g. a DCS, the safety
division of Yokogawa Europe Solutions BV has introduced the ProSafe-COM products in 1994.
COM is the abbreviation of ‘COMmunication’. A DOS version (MODCOM) and a Windows 2000 based
version (MULCOM) are available. The Windows 2000 version allows complete integration with the
Yokogawa CS3000 / VP system via V-net and easy linking with the ProSafe-PLC and ProSafe-SLS.
Since the functionality of MODCOM and MULCOM functionality partly overlap ProSafe-COM is now
introduced, a single platform which can be used to replace both MODCOM and MULCOM. The new
ProSafe-COM platform is headless (no moving parts) and comprises an embedded version of
Windows XP.
In May 2005 Yokogawa released ProSafe-RS, a new safety system which can be fully integrated with the
existing Yokogawa DCS products (CENTUM CS3000 and CENTUM VP).
ProSafe-RS directly connects to the CENTUM control bus, so ProSafe-COM is not required for the
integration of ProSafe-RS. However, ProSafe-COM may still be used to integrate legacy ProSafe
products with other DCS or SCADA systems.
System overview ProSafe-COM
This booklet is an introduction to ProSafe-COM. It briefly discusses the ProSafe products in general and
the context of ProSafe-COM. Thereafter, this booklet focuses on the functions, hardware set-up and
interfaces of ProSafe-COM.
Audience
This booklet addresses anyone who wants to get a quick overview of ProSafe-COM and its functions:
management, operator, service personnel, etc. This booklet also addresses the system engineer who has
to integrate ProSafe-COM into a DCS or SCADA system.
The System overview can be read, without prerequisite knowledge, from the beginning until the desired
level of detail is revealed. Though not required, some knowledge of instrumented safety systems is
recommended for understanding this booklet.
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TI48J01A00-00E Oct 2010
