ICALEPCS2013 - List of Authors (Antoniotti, F.)

Paper

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The Control System of CERN Accelerators Vacuum [LS1 Activities and New Developments]

123

P. Gomes, F. Antoniotti, F. Bellorini, S. Blanchard, J-P. Boivin, J. Gama, G. Girardot, G. Pigny, B. Rio, H. Vestergard
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
L. Kopylov, S. Merker, M.S. Mikheev
IHEP, Moscow Region, Russia

After 3 years of operation, the LHC entered its first Long Shutdown period (LS1), in February 2013. Major consolidation and maintenance works will be performed across the whole CERN’s accelerator chain, in order to prepare the LHC to restart at higher energy, in 2015. The rest of the accelerator complex shall resume in mid-2014. We report on the recent and on-going vacuum-controls projects. Some of them are associated with the consolidations of the vacuum systems of LHC and of its injectors; others concern the complete renovation of the controls of some machines; and there are also some completely new installations. Due to the wide age-span of the existing vacuum installations, there is a mix of design philosophies and of control-equipment generations. The renovation and the novel projects offer an opportunity to improve the Quality Assurance of vacuum controls by: identifying, documenting, naming and labelling all pieces of equipment; minimising the number of equipment versions with similar functionality; homogenising the control architectures, while converging to a single software framework.

Poster MOPPC027 [67.309 MB]

MOPPC030

Developments on the SCADA of CERN Accelerators Vacuum

135

F. Antoniotti, S. Blanchard, M. Boccioli, P. Gomes, H.F. Pereira
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
L. Kopylov, S. Merker, M.S. Mikheev
IHEP, Moscow Region, Russia

During the first 3 years of LHC operation, the priorities for the vacuum controls SCADA were to attend to user requests, and to improve its ergonomics and efficiency. We now have reached: information access simplified and more uniform; automatic scripts instead of fastidious manual actions; functionalities and menus standardized across all accelerators; enhanced tools for data analysis and maintenance interventions. Several decades of cumulative developments, based on heterogeneous technologies and architectures, have been asking for a homogenization effort. The Long Shutdown (LS1) provides the opportunity to further standardize our vacuum controls systems, around Siemens-S7 PLCs and PVSS SCADA. Meanwhile, we have been promoting exchanges with other Groups at CERN and outside Institutes: to follow the global update policy for software libraries; to discuss philosophies and development details; and to accomplish common products. Furthermore, while preserving the current functionalities, we are working on a convergence towards the CERN UNICOS framework.

Poster MOPPC030 [31.143 MB]

TUPPC027

Quality Management of CERN Vacuum Controls

608

F. Antoniotti, J-P. Boivin, E. Fortescue-Beck, J. Gama, P. Gomes, P. Le Roux, H.F. Pereira, G. Pigny
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The vacuum controls team is in charge of the monitoring, maintenance & consolidation of the control systems of all accelerators and detectors in CERN; this represents 6 000 instruments distributed along 128 km of vacuum chambers, often of heterogeneous architectures. In order to improve the efficiency of the services we provide, to vacuum experts and to accelerator operators, a Quality Management Plan is being put into place. The first step was the gathering of old documents and the centralisation of information concerning architectures, procedures, equipment and settings. It was followed by the standardisation of the naming convention across different accelerators. The traceability of problems, request, repairs, and other actions, has also been put into place. It goes together with the effort on identification of each individual device by a coded label, and its registration in a central database. We are also working on ways to record, retrieve, process, and display the information across several linked repositories; then, the quality and efficiency of our services can only improve, and the corresponding performance indicators will be available.

Poster TUPPC027 [98.542 MB]

Paper	Title	Page
MOPPC027	The Control System of CERN Accelerators Vacuum [LS1 Activities and New Developments]	123
	P. Gomes, F. Antoniotti, F. Bellorini, S. Blanchard, J-P. Boivin, J. Gama, G. Girardot, G. Pigny, B. Rio, H. Vestergard CERN, Geneva, Switzerland L. Kopylov, S. Merker, M.S. Mikheev IHEP, Moscow Region, Russia
	After 3 years of operation, the LHC entered its first Long Shutdown period (LS1), in February 2013. Major consolidation and maintenance works will be performed across the whole CERN’s accelerator chain, in order to prepare the LHC to restart at higher energy, in 2015. The rest of the accelerator complex shall resume in mid-2014. We report on the recent and on-going vacuum-controls projects. Some of them are associated with the consolidations of the vacuum systems of LHC and of its injectors; others concern the complete renovation of the controls of some machines; and there are also some completely new installations. Due to the wide age-span of the existing vacuum installations, there is a mix of design philosophies and of control-equipment generations. The renovation and the novel projects offer an opportunity to improve the Quality Assurance of vacuum controls by: identifying, documenting, naming and labelling all pieces of equipment; minimising the number of equipment versions with similar functionality; homogenising the control architectures, while converging to a single software framework.
	Poster MOPPC027 [67.309 MB]

MOPPC030	Developments on the SCADA of CERN Accelerators Vacuum	135
	F. Antoniotti, S. Blanchard, M. Boccioli, P. Gomes, H.F. Pereira CERN, Geneva, Switzerland L. Kopylov, S. Merker, M.S. Mikheev IHEP, Moscow Region, Russia
	During the first 3 years of LHC operation, the priorities for the vacuum controls SCADA were to attend to user requests, and to improve its ergonomics and efficiency. We now have reached: information access simplified and more uniform; automatic scripts instead of fastidious manual actions; functionalities and menus standardized across all accelerators; enhanced tools for data analysis and maintenance interventions. Several decades of cumulative developments, based on heterogeneous technologies and architectures, have been asking for a homogenization effort. The Long Shutdown (LS1) provides the opportunity to further standardize our vacuum controls systems, around Siemens-S7 PLCs and PVSS SCADA. Meanwhile, we have been promoting exchanges with other Groups at CERN and outside Institutes: to follow the global update policy for software libraries; to discuss philosophies and development details; and to accomplish common products. Furthermore, while preserving the current functionalities, we are working on a convergence towards the CERN UNICOS framework.
	Poster MOPPC030 [31.143 MB]

TUPPC027	Quality Management of CERN Vacuum Controls	608
	F. Antoniotti, J-P. Boivin, E. Fortescue-Beck, J. Gama, P. Gomes, P. Le Roux, H.F. Pereira, G. Pigny CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The vacuum controls team is in charge of the monitoring, maintenance & consolidation of the control systems of all accelerators and detectors in CERN; this represents 6 000 instruments distributed along 128 km of vacuum chambers, often of heterogeneous architectures. In order to improve the efficiency of the services we provide, to vacuum experts and to accelerator operators, a Quality Management Plan is being put into place. The first step was the gathering of old documents and the centralisation of information concerning architectures, procedures, equipment and settings. It was followed by the standardisation of the naming convention across different accelerators. The traceability of problems, request, repairs, and other actions, has also been put into place. It goes together with the effort on identification of each individual device by a coded label, and its registration in a central database. We are also working on ways to record, retrieve, process, and display the information across several linked repositories; then, the quality and efficiency of our services can only improve, and the corresponding performance indicators will be available.
	Poster TUPPC027 [98.542 MB]