The R&D team is comprised of Design Engineers, Senior Design Engineers and general Technical Authorities based in Europe and in North America . Over the years, this team has built an extensive range of expertise and knowledge focused in the highly specialised field of the design and implementation of safety related, fault-tolerant products.

Standards

Within the ICS Triplex R&D team, experts in validation ensure all products comply with as many industry standards as possible. This includes IEC 61508 SIL1-3, TUV to AK6, NFPA 72, 85 and 86 for fire and gas detection applications and OPC compliance for Trusted™ as well as the ISaGRAF programming tools for compliance with IEC61131. ICS Triplex continues to certify its products against a wide variety of international standards.

Key Technology Developments

In the last few years, the R&D team has developed Trusted™ making it the RunSafe™ safety system with:

• the fastest execution times
• the most comprehensive diagnostics
• the ability to exchange information from a number of systems
• automatic monitoring/testing of field devices, including valves
• the use of the least amount of physical space of any TMR System
• the ability to cover the largest application area
• enhanced fault containment regions
• enhanced degradation modes 3-3-2-0
• base hardware platform to allow custom application code to execute at each I/O module; this feature has allowed very fast time to market for specialised applications such as Valve Testing, Zone Interface Modules and Customer Specific Developments .
• fast SOE recording 1ms per event independent of the size of a system
• an OPC Server; data access plus alarm and events
• remote diagnostic facilities
• comprehensive communication