Conveners
EPICS for Industries: Vendor day
- Anders Wallander (ITER)
EPICS, the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System, is a set of software tools and applications which provide a software infrastructure for building distributed control systems to operate complex systems such as scientific facilities or advanced industry production processes.
But EPICS is more than code, it is also a dynamic, open-source community with deep experience from...
The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) has been used in industrial control systems since the 1990’s. Many of the components of a research facility are industrial systems. The architectural features of EPICS were designed around industrial control systems. To provide the required support for research facilities, clean interfaces at every level and support for high...
Cosylab is the world leading commercial integrator of large experimental physics control systems as well as proton therapy software. Over last 20 years we have had extensive experience with EPICS in various types of projects. I will present some of our examples of EPICS projects in commercial contexts.
During this presentation, I will talk about the history of the company, how we started with EPICS. Moving on to where we are now and how we operate within the EPICS community. I will then present slides showing some of the interesting EPICS Projects we have worked on in recent years.
Large science facilities enable research across a diverse range of science disciplines. To both run the facility and provide the necessary services for visiting scientists' experiments requires the integration of a large number of devices.
This presentation will describe the challenges of device control at a large facility, how we approach integration and the consequent requirements it can...
This presentation showcases technologies used to integrate industrial "COTS" devices into EPICS based control systems. Two examples show how the EPICS approach of "configuration over coding" can be achieved through a high level of standardization or a high level of abstraction and flexibility.
- OPC UA is a powerful communication standard to integrate controllers into SCADA systems....
Materials science is greatly benefiting from computational data being openly accessible through various materials encyclopedias. Also, open access peer-reviewed publishing has become the norm rather than the exception. In contrast, the publication of experimental research data in materials science still is in its infancy. I will discuss the requirements for publishing experimental research...
EPICS is widely used at large facilities such as accelerators and telescopes, but it is also well-suited to use in much smaller facilities. In this talk I will describe the use of EPICS in two of our small laboratories.
A Raman lab where EPICS is used to control:
- 5 lasers
- 15 motors with 3 different types of motor controllers
- Communication with PLC for laser safety system
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