Orbit 60 Series: Bently Nevada's New Solution for Protection and Condition Monitoring

Time:Dec 05,2025

In September 2019, Bently Nevada announced the launch of its next-generation condition monitoring, protection, and data integration platform – the Orbit 60 series. Many features of the Orbit 60 platform align with potential cost savings in key areas: simplified network architecture, reduced field wiring, increased sensor count, and the ability to connect multiple devices per installed system. The Bently Nevada Orbit 60 series protection and condition monitoring system provides a continuous online monitoring system suitable for critical equipment and plant-wide applications. The Orbit 60 series' data isolation capabilities create a secure industrial data environment designed to meet the IEC 62443-4-2 standard, featuring world-class cybersecurity capabilities and isolation of protection and condition monitoring functions. The Orbit 60 series system can be deployed using any combination of rack-mounted and distributed hardware. This allows instrumentation to be better matched to mechanical applications. Full bidirectional communication with plant control systems is supported through a range of standard protocols. With the Orbit 60 series' distributed architecture, connecting multiple chassis via bridging modules reduces overall electrical installation costs, minimizes analog ground loops and noise issues, and moves critical maintenance activities away from hazardous areas.
1. Cybersecurity
Bently Nevada has integrated cybersecurity into the design of every Orbit 60 platform. The Orbit 60 system complies with the IEC 62443-4-2 standard, achieving the highest security level (SL) of 4, a globally recognized cybersecurity standard, preventing any unauthorized user from compromising the condition monitoring network and negatively impacting protection configurations.
2. Plant-wide and Flexible Deployment
The Orbit 60 platform combines the best features of Bently Nevada's entire product range, making it deployable in virtually all machines and applications. Whether large machinery sets or plant-wide equipment clusters, the Orbit 60 can easily handle any number of speed and key phase signals and offers diverse deployment options. The Orbit 60 is designed for both sliding bearing and rolling element bearing (REB) applications, covering a wide range of applications from high-speed critical turbomachinery to plant-wide equipment such as pumps, motors, and fans. 3. Process Data Integration
The Orbit 60 utilizes a newly designed Communication Gateway (CGW) module, enhancing bidirectional communication capabilities and enabling high-speed retrieval of process data from DCS, control systems, or connected devices. This allows the Orbit 60 to perform state-based data filtering at the hardware level and provides a secure connection to send process data to System 1, thus enabling the functionality of the Bently Nevada Diagnostic HMI.
4. Distributed Architecture and Remote I/O
The Orbit 60 employs an innovative architecture that allows multiple base stations to be bridged together, creating a distributed system that can be configured in a daisy-chain or star configuration. The bridging design replicates all data from one bridged base station to another, maintaining data resolution and ensuring the complete implementation of system functionality in a distributed architecture.

The Orbit 60 series supports monitoring one or more machines in a single deployment. One System Interface Module (SIM) defines a system and can contain up to 68 dynamic channels. One System Interface Module (SIM) defines a system with up to 64 dynamic channels, accommodating multiple machines and supporting unlimited synchronized Keyphasors for any channel. The Condition Monitoring Module (CMM) connects to the business network via a secure network access port. The Communication Gateway (CGW) sends and receives data (data, status, setpoints) and control signals (inhibit, reset, trip multiplier) to and from the control system and plant historical database. Bridging modules allow for the connection of more chassis while still forming a single system. The recorder module outputs analog signals proportional to the configured measurements. The relay module provides digital output signals based on configurable logic of the system status.

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