Triconex® safety systems help customers comply with rigorous safety standards, as well as help meet or exceed production targets, all while protecting their most valuable assets – their equipment, people and environment. The Triconex Trident® Safety Instrumented System package is a SIL3-certified fail-safe, fault-tolerant controller, delivering superior reliability and availability for distributed use in refineries, petrochemical, oil and gas plants and other highly hazardous facilities.

Now featuring embedded OPC Universal Architecture communication integration, the Trident Safety System offers greater connectivity with third-party systems. It complies with IEC 61508:2010 international standards and fulfils the requirements for emergency shutdown, fire and gas, burner management, turbomachinery control, high integrity pressure protection systems (HIPPS) and oil well RTU system applications that need to be distributed in remote instrumented buildings or located remotely in the production fields.

Implementing OPC UA maximizes interoperability between systems and streamlines connectivity through open-platform architecture and future-proof design. The new communications interface module also contains an embedded OPC UA server to provide a cohesive, secure and reliable cross-platform framework for real-time data, alarms and events. The new communications interface module also provides enhanced security features by implementing X.509 certificates for additional security protection.

Key Capabilities:

• Scalable from small standalone applications (32 I/O points) to large site wide systems (in excess of 40,000 I/O points);
• Continuous operation with no time restrictions, even in degraded mode of operation;
  
• Defense in depth security and support for X.509 certificates for enhanced security messaging;
  
• Superior peer-to-peer performance (63 nodes) and enhanced error checking (CRC32);
  
• TÜV certified for SIL3 applications in accordance with International standards IEC 61508;
  
• Capable of interfacing with third-party systems using industry open communications protocol;
  
• On-line module replacement ensures plant availability by hot swapping of modules;
  
• 1mS SOE on digital inputs;
  
• Application program execution at millisecond speed for critical control applications;
  
• Suitable for use in harsh environmental conditions (low as -20°C to highs of +70°C).