Move from reactive controls maintenance to a coordinated lifecycle strategy built around your plant, priorities, and budget with Controls Lifecare Services Multi-Year Agreements (CLS MYA).

Every hour of reliable plant operation depends on controls that are secure, supported, and ready to perform. Yet while your plant is built to run for decades, the technologies behind it evolve much faster. As control systems age, support models change, cybersecurity expectations increase, and critical expertise becomes harder to access.

Without a proactive lifecycle strategy, organizations can find themselves reacting to avoidable risks, unexpected costs, and unplanned investments under compressed timelines.

The hidden cost of waiting

Addressing controls need only when they arise may appear economical, but the costs rarely arrive alone. Emergency parts, one-off upgrades, specialist support, repeated approvals, and disconnected decisions increase both financial uncertainty and administrative burden.

As maintenance is deferred, parts can become harder to source, software and patching gaps can narrow available options, and modernization may require unplanned funding under compressed timelines. A planned lifecycle strategy helps preserve options before urgency limits them.

A CLS MYA built around your priorities

A Controls Lifecare Services Multi-Year Agreement (CLS MYA) replaces fragmented, transactional purchases with one coordinated lifecycle plan. Based on the selected scope, it can align software maintenance, validated patching, controls maintenance, spares, diagnostics, technical support, obsolescence planning, and upgrades with your installed base, operating priorities, risk profile, and budget.

Instead of repeatedly reacting, your team gains a clearer roadmap for what requires attention now, what can be planned, and how lifecycle investments can be coordinated over time.

  • Plan spending with greater confidence: Turn separate, unplanned purchases into a visible multi-year cost structure that supports budgeting and capital priorities.
  • Stay ahead of obsolescence: Review asset status and schedule refreshes before support gaps become urgent. 
  • Keep OEM expertise within reach: Access technical guidance, diagnostics, health checks, patch validation, and customer success management. 
  • Respond faster when needs arise: Reduce repeated bidding, approval cycles, and administrative delays through a pre-established multi-year agreement framework. 
  • Help reduce total cost of ownership: Coordinate upgrades, support, and obsolescence planning within one CLS MYA rather than purchasing services transactionally. The actual value depends on the customer’s installed base, agreement scope, and lifecycle needs.

The value of this approach becomes clearer when lifecycle planning is connected to operational outcomes.

Reactive decisions versus proactive lifecycle planning
Customer priority
Reactive approach
Proactive CLS MYA approach
Availability
Issues are addressed after disruption, potentially resulting in lost revenue due to increased outage duration.
Planned maintenance and priority support can help identify and address issues before they escalate.
Parts
Critical components may be unavailable when needed, leading to rush orders and expedited shipping.
Initial spares, replenishment, or parts replacement coverage can be included based on the selected agreement scope.
Cybersecurity
Patch backlogs and outdated software may increase operational and compliance exposure.
Validated updates and patching within the agreed scope can help address vulnerabilities and support applicable compliance objectives.
Budget predictability
Transactional purchases and major upgrades every 5-7 years can create unpredictable spending spikes.
Defined scope, long-term pricing, and planned upgrades can improve predictability for covered lifecycle costs.
Resources
Internal teams coordinate multiple purchases, vendors, inventory needs, and obsolescence decisions.
OEM-led lifecycle management can reduce coordination burden and help teams focus on core operations.

Available services and customer value depend on the installed base, selected agreement scope, operating profile, and lifecycle needs.

Proof in practice: acting early creates measurable value

The challenge. A leading oil and gas operator in the Middle East had limited internal resources dedicated to controls troubleshooting. The team was equipped for steady-state operations, but growing output requirements increased the need for faster response, greater reliability, and fewer unplanned outages.

The response. GE Vernova implemented a proactive lifecycle support model of continuous assistance combining local field expertise, remote intelligence, cybersecurity support, a Mark VIe controls upgrade, and targeted compressor remapping.

The outcome. Emergency response time improved from approximately one day to under six hours. A compressor remapping project delivered approximately 4% performance improvement, while reduced production downtime contributed to estimated annual savings of $35 million to $45 million.

The example shows how earlier lifecycle action can improve responsiveness, reduce disruption, and create measurable operational value.

Your next move starts with clarity

You do not have to wait for a component to reach its End-of-Life, a cybersecurity gap to occur, or an urgent service event to happen to determine your next investment.

A Mark VIe Lifecycle Review can provide a clearer view of hardware and software lifecycle status, to help identify immediate risks, clarify lifecycle priorities, and build a practical multi-year controls roadmap.
 

Take the next step: request a Mark VIe Lifecycle Review

1. Assess your controls environment. Review control system hardware and software lifecycle status, cybersecurity posture, technical support capabilities and spare-parts priorities.

2. Identify immediate risks and priority actions. Determine what requires attention now and what can be planned.

3. Shape the right CLS MYA roadmap. Collaborate with a GE Vernova expert to define a multi-year plan aligned with your installed base, operational priorities, risk profile, and budget.

Request a Mark VIe Lifecycle Review and take the first step toward a more predictable controls lifecycle management strategy.

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Thaha Nazeemudeen
Senior Product Manager, Controls Lifecare Services, GE Vernova

Thaha Nazeemudeen is a Senior Controls Product Manager at GE Vernova, where he leads product strategy for Controls Lifecare Services Multi-Year Agreements. With more than two decades of experience in control system commissioning, controls design, application engineering, product support, and product management, he specializes in developing customer-centric lifecycle services that improve reliability, manage risk, and create long-term value.

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