IS400TDBTH6A Mark* VIe control system Extended product life cycle description

Extended Product Life Cycle Support Notice: Service with Updated Technology Mark* VIe I/O

This Extended Product Life Cycle Support Notice is intended to help you plan the maintenance and evolution of your Mark* VIe control system. This notice, as part of a broader Product Life Cycle Support Policy, protects your investment with extensive replacement parts availability, typically extending up to 10 years following the end of production date, including planned upgrade paths to current control technologies. At inception, Mark VIe controls embraced the principle of extended life cycle through an Ethernet backbone design with discrete modular building blocks, including controllers, network components, I/O modules, and extensive software tools. This flexible, modular, upgradable architecture enables our customers to maintain a state-of-the-art control system by upgrading or replacing components as needed. This design allows for incremental technology upgrades, obsolescence protection, parts life cycle planning and comprehensive system upgrades, without the need to replace the entire control system. The electronics technology for the Mark VIe I/O packs introduced in 2004 is obsolete, and updated electronics technology was introduced in 2010. The updated Mark VIe I/O packs are backward-compatible, and can be mixed and matched with the older technology including TMR systems. In February 2015, GE announced the first group of IO modules to transition to the newer technology. The list of modules is attached in Appendix A and you can refer to GE’s life cycle notice GEZ-S2026 for more information. Today, GE is announcing the additional IO packs below have transitioned to the upgraded technology:

Obsolete Catalog Number        Available Catalog Number 

IS220PVIBH1A                           IS420PVIBH1B

IS220YVIBS1A                           IS420YVIBS1B

IS220YAICS1A                           IS420YAICS1B

IS221YAICS1A                           IS421YAICS1B ‡

IS220YDIAS1A                           IS420YDIAS1B

IS220YDOAS1A                         IS420YDOAS1B ‡

IS221YDOAS1A                         IS421YDOAS1B