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Press Release

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces Engineering Centre of Excellence for Oil & Gas and Safety

July 02, 2009

UK-based facility to develop and test complete solutions based on GE's best of breed products

Charlottesville, VA, July 2, 2009 GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, today announced the opening of its Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE) for Oil & Gas and Safety in Luton, UK. The centre represents an expansion of the company's commitment to the Oil & Gas industry allowing GE Fanuc to test and provide complete solutions based on GE's best of breed products.

"Customers in the Oil & Gas and Safety industries are looking for a combination of products in a validated solution associated with domain expertise," said Marcel Van Helten, Market Director Infrastructure. "This is now available from a single location. The close cooperation between customers, engineering and marketing will drive better solutions to provide our customers with the ability to gain a sustainable advantage."

The CoE will regularly host customer innovation sessions to improve the technical relationship between users and GE Fanuc's combined engineering and technical marketing teams. It will be focused around process control solutions for the general process safety market, and specifically solutions aimed at the Oil & Gas industry including off shore production asset upgrades and optimization, solutions for offshore production vessels, onshore upstream and midstream applications. Areas of expertise will be IEC61508, communications, integration of intelligent instrumentation, and operational optimization.

GE Fanuc currently offers a full range of process solutions that meet the needs of the Oil & Gas industry. These hardware and software solutions will form the basis of the work done by the CoE:

"Providing an integrated approach leveraging our broad control product portfolio combined with our software solutions, like the newly-released Proficy Workflow, GE Intelligent Platforms can deliver solutions to reduce CAPEX investments and reduce ongoing operational expense," continued Van Helten. "The CoE will allow us to work more closely with our system integrators, OEMs and end users."

For more information: www.gefanuc.com/industries/oil-and-gas.

Proficy is a registered trademark of GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

About GE Enterprise Solutions

GE Enterprise Solutions elevates customers' productivity and profitability with integrated solutions using sensors and non-destructive testing; security and life safety technologies; power system protection and control; and plant automation and embedded computing systems. Enterprise Solutions' high-tech, high-growth businesses include Sensing & Inspection Technologies, Security, Digital Energy, and GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms. The business has 17,000 problem-solving employees in more than 60 countries around the world.

Elli Holman
GE Intelligent Platforms Public Relations Director
[email protected]
1-508-698-7456
1-508-298-8306


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