System Overview ProSafe-COM 3.00
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An introduction to ProSafe-COM
1.1 ProSafe-COM and the ProSafe family
ProSafe is short for Programmable Safety systems. ProSafe provides for today’s and tomorrow’s market
demand for sound safety solutions. ProSafe comprises a whole family of industrial safeguarding and
safeguarding associated products.
A ProSafe safety system can be used as emergency shutdown, process shutdown or fire & gas system in
the oil and gas exploration, petrochemical or nuclear industries, to mention some examples. A ProSafe
system works autonomously. It shuts down the guarded process (or part of it) without any operator’s
intervention when the input sensors detect an unsafe situation or when the ProSafe systems diagnose an
internal error which may prevent the Safety system from responding correctly when a demand comes from
the field.
The ProSafe family can be divided into systems with the following functions:
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Safeguarding
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Communication
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Supervising
ProSafe-COM
ProSafe-RS
Figure 1: The ProSafe family members
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