PCaPAC2014 - List of Keywords (project-management)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
TCO103	Recent Highlights from Cosylab	controls, software, TANGO, EPICS	132
	M. Pleško, F. Amand Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
	Cosylab was established 13 years ago by a group of regular visitors of the PCaPAC. In the meantime, it has grown to a company of 90 employees that covers the majority of accelerator control projects. In this talk, I will present the most interesting developments that we have done in the past two years on a very different range of projects and I will show how we had to get organized in order to be able to manage them all. The developments were made for labs like KIT, ITER, PSI, EBG-MedAustron, European Spallation Source, Maxlab, SLAC, ORNL, GSI/FAIR but also generally for community software like EPICS, TANGO, Control System Studio, White Rabbit, etc. And they range from electronics development to high level software: electric signal conditioning and interfacing, timing system, machine protection system, fibre-optic communication, linux driver development, core EPICS development, packaging, high performance networks, medical device integration, database development, all the way up to turnkey systems. Efficient organisation comprises a matrix structure of teams and groups versus projects and accounts, supported by rigorous reporting, measurements and drill-down analyses.
	Slides TCO103 [13.372 MB]

TCO201	Managing the FAIR Control System Development	controls, ion, storage-ring, hardware	135
	R. Bär, F. Ameil GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
	After years of careful preparation and planning, construction and implementation works for the new international accelerator complex FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) at GSI have seriously been started. The FAIR accelerators will extend the present GSI accelerator chain, then being used as injector, and provide anti-proton, ion, and rare isotope beams with unprecedented intensity and quality for a variety of research programs. The accelerator control system for the FAIR complex is presently being designed and developed by the GSI Controls group with a team of about 50 soft- and hardware developers, complemented by an international in-kind contribution from the FAIR member state Slovenia. This paper presents requirements and constraints from being a large and international project and focusses on the organizational and project management strategies and tools for the control system subproject. This includes the project communication, design methodology, release cycle planning, testing strategies and ensuring technical integrity and coherence of the whole system during the full project phase.
	Slides TCO201 [2.781 MB]

Paper

Title

Other Keywords

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TCO103

Recent Highlights from Cosylab

controls, software, TANGO, EPICS

132

M. Pleško, F. Amand
Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Cosylab was established 13 years ago by a group of regular visitors of the PCaPAC. In the meantime, it has grown to a company of 90 employees that covers the majority of accelerator control projects. In this talk, I will present the most interesting developments that we have done in the past two years on a very different range of projects and I will show how we had to get organized in order to be able to manage them all. The developments were made for labs like KIT, ITER, PSI, EBG-MedAustron, European Spallation Source, Maxlab, SLAC, ORNL, GSI/FAIR but also generally for community software like EPICS, TANGO, Control System Studio, White Rabbit, etc. And they range from electronics development to high level software: electric signal conditioning and interfacing, timing system, machine protection system, fibre-optic communication, linux driver development, core EPICS development, packaging, high performance networks, medical device integration, database development, all the way up to turnkey systems. Efficient organisation comprises a matrix structure of teams and groups versus projects and accounts, supported by rigorous reporting, measurements and drill-down analyses.

Slides TCO103 [13.372 MB]

TCO201

Managing the FAIR Control System Development

controls, ion, storage-ring, hardware

135

R. Bär, F. Ameil
GSI, Darmstadt, Germany

After years of careful preparation and planning, construction and implementation works for the new international accelerator complex FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) at GSI have seriously been started. The FAIR accelerators will extend the present GSI accelerator chain, then being used as injector, and provide anti-proton, ion, and rare isotope beams with unprecedented intensity and quality for a variety of research programs. The accelerator control system for the FAIR complex is presently being designed and developed by the GSI Controls group with a team of about 50 soft- and hardware developers, complemented by an international in-kind contribution from the FAIR member state Slovenia. This paper presents requirements and constraints from being a large and international project and focusses on the organizational and project management strategies and tools for the control system subproject. This includes the project communication, design methodology, release cycle planning, testing strategies and ensuring technical integrity and coherence of the whole system during the full project phase.

Slides TCO201 [2.781 MB]