ICALEPCS2019 - List of Keywords (SCADA)

Paper	Title	Other Keywords	Page
MOMPL010	Data Streaming With Apache Kafka for CERN Supervision, Control and Data Acquisition System for Radiation and Environmental Protection	controls, real-time, radiation, monitoring	147
	A. Ledeul, A. Savulescu, G. Segura, B. Styczen CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
	The CERN HSE - occupational Health & Safety and Environmental protection - Unit develops and operates REMUS - Radiation and Environmental Unified Supervision - , a Radiation and Environmental Supervision, Control and Data Acquisition system, covering CERN accelerators, experiments and their surrounding environment. REMUS is now making use of modern data streaming technologies in order to provide a secure, reliable, scalable and loosely coupled solution for streaming near real-time data in and out of the system. Integrating the open-source streaming platform Apache Kafka allows the system to stream near real-time data to Data Visualization Tools and Web Interfaces. It also permits full-duplex communication with external Control Systems and IIoT - Industrial Internet Of Things - devices, without compromising the security of the system and using a widely adopted technology. This paper describes the architecture of the system put in place, and the numerous applications it opens up for REMUS and Control Systems in general.
	Poster MOMPL010 [25.881 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOMPL010
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MOPHA003	Integrating Mobile Devices Into CNAO’s Control System, a Web Service Approach to Device Communication	controls, interface, software, framework	192
	C.F. Afonso, L. Casalegno, S. Foglio, S.G. Gioia, M. Necchi, S. Toncelli CNAO Foundation, Pavia, Italy C. Larizza Pavia University, Biomedical Informatics Lab "Mario Stefanelli", Pavia, Italy
	Funding: Horizon2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No 675265 The Italian National Hadrontherapy Center (CNAO) is a cancer treatment center employing a synchrotron to accelerate charged particle beams. The configuration and support environment of CNAO’s control system is responsible for managing the repository, configuring the control system, as well as performing non-real time support operations. Applications in this environment interface with the relational repository, remote file systems, as well as lower level control system components. As part of the technological upgrade of the configuration and support environment, CNAO plans to integrate mobile applications into the control system. In order to lay the groundwork for the new generation of applications, new communication interfaces had to be designed. To achieve this, a web services approach was taken, with the objective of standardizing access to these resources. In this paper we describe in detail the update of the communication channels. Additionally, several solutions to challenges encountered, such as access management, logging, and interoperability, are presented.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOPHA003
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MOPHA022	Implementation of ISO 50001 Energy Management System With the Advantage of Archive Viewer in NSRRC	network, controls, instrumentation, factory	239
	C.S. Chen, W.S. Chan, Y.Y. Cheng, Y.F. Chiu, Y.-C. Chung, K.C. Kuo, M.T. Lee, Y.-C. Lin, C.Y. Liu, Z.-D. Tsai NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan
	Due to the limited energy resources in Taiwan, energy conservation is always a big issue for everyone who lives in this country. According to the data from the related departments, nearly 98% of energy is imported from abroad for more than a decade. Despite the strong dependency on foreign fuel imports, the energy subsidy policy leads to a relatively low cost of energy for end users, while it is not reasonable. In order to resolve the energy resource shortage and pursue a more efficient energy use, the implementation of ISO 50001 energy management system is activated with the advantage of the Archive Viewer in NSRRC this year. The energy management system will build up a overall energy usage model and several energy performance indicators to help us achieve efficient energy usage.
	Poster MOPHA022 [0.842 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOPHA022
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MOPHA041	Cause-and-Effect Matrix Specifications for Safety Critical Systems at CERN	operation, PLC, controls, cryogenics	285
	B. Fernández Adiego, E. Blanco Viñuela, M. Charrondiere, R. Speroni CERN, Geneva, Switzerland M. Bonet, H.D. Hamisch, M.H. de Queiroz UFSC, Florianópolis, Brazil
	One of the most critical phases in the development of a Safety Instrumented System (SIS) is the functional specification of the Safety Instrumented Functions (SIFs). This step is carried out by a multidisciplinary team of process, controls and safety experts. This functional specification must be simple, unambiguous and compact to allow capturing the requirements from the risk analysis, and facilitating the design, implementation and verification of the SIFs. The Cause and Effect Matrix (CEM) formalism provides a visual representation of Boolean expressions. This makes it adequate to specify stateless logic, such as the safety interlock logic of a SIS. At CERN, a methodology based on the CEM has been applied to the development of a SIS for a magnet test bench facility. This paper shows the applicability of this methodology in a real magnet test bench and presents its impact in the different phases of the IEC 61511 safety lifecycle.
	Poster MOPHA041 [0.751 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOPHA041
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MOPHA100	quasar : The Full-Stack Solution for Creation of OPC-UA Middleware	software, controls, embedded, detector	453
	P.P. Nikiel, P. Moschovakos, S. Schlenker CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
	Quasar (Quick OPC-UA Server Generation Framework) enables efficient development of OPC-UA servers. The project evolved into a software ecosystem providing complete OPC-UA support for Detector Control Systems. OPC-UA servers can be modeled and generated and profit from tooling to aid development, deployment and maintenance. OPC-UA client libraries can be generated and published to users. Client-server chaining is supported. quasar was used to build OPC-UA servers for different computing platforms including server machines, credit-card computers as well as System-on-a-chip solutions. Quasar generated servers can be integrated as slave modules into other software projects written in higher-level programming languages (such as Python) to provide OPC-UA information exchange. quasar supports quick and efficient integration of OPC-UA servers into a control system based on the WinCC OA SCADA platform. The ecosystem can work with different OPC-UA stacks including 100% free and open-source ones. Thus it’s not restricted by licensing constraints. The contribution will present an overview and the evolution of the ecosystem along with example applications from ATLAS DCS and beyond.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOPHA100
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MOPHA117	Big Data Archiving From Oracle to Hadoop	database, network, monitoring, operation	497
	I. Prieto Barreiro, M. Sobieszek CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
	The CERN Accelerator Logging Service (CALS) is used to persist data of around 2 million predefined signals coming from heterogeneous sources such as the electricity infrastructure, industrial controls like cryogenics and vacuum, or beam related data. This old Oracle based logging system will be phased out at the end of the LHC’s Long Shut-down 2 (LS2) and will be replaced by the Next CERN Accelerator Logging Service (NXCALS) which is based on Hadoop. As a consequence, the different data sources must be adapted to persist the data in the new logging system. This paper describes the solution implemented to archive into NXCALS the data produced by QPS (Quench Protection System) and SCADAR (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition Relational database) systems, which generate a total of around 175, 000 values per second. To cope with such a volume of data the new service has to be extremely robust, scalable and fail-safe with guaranteed data delivery and no data loss. The paper also explains how to recover from different failure scenarios like e.g. network disruption and how to manage and monitor this highly distributed service.
	Poster MOPHA117 [1.227 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOPHA117
About •	paper received ※ 29 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 10 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020
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MOPHA123	Vacuum Controls Configurator: A Web Based Configuration Tool for Large Scale Vacuum Control Systems	vacuum, database, controls, PLC	511
	A.P. Rocha, I.A. Amador, S. Blanchard, J. Fraga, P. Gomes, C.V. Lima, G. Pigny, P. Poulopoulou CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The Vacuum Controls Configurator (vacCC) is an application developed at CERN for the management of large-scale vacuum control systems. The application was developed to facilitate the management of the configuration of the vacuum control system at CERN, the largest vacuum system in operation in the world, with over 15,000 vacuum devices spread over 128 km of vacuum chambers. It allows non-experts in software to easily integrate or modify vacuum devices within the control system via a web browser. It automatically generates configuration data that enables the communication between vacuum devices and the supervision system, the generation of SCADA synoptics, long and short term archiving, and the publishing of vacuum data to external systems. VacCC is a web application built for the cloud, dockerized, and based on a microservice architecture. In this paper, we unveil the application’s main aspects concerning its architecture, data flow, data validation, and generation of configuration for SCADA/PLC.
	Poster MOPHA123 [1.317 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOPHA123
About •	paper received ※ 01 October 2019 paper accepted ※ 10 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020
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WEMPR004	Why Should You Invest in Asset Management? A Fire and Gas Use Case	detector, database, software, MMI	1041
	H. Nissen, S. Grau CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	At present, the CERN Fire and Gas detection systems involve about 22500 sensors and their number is increasing rapidly at the same time as the number of equipped installations grows up. These assets cover a wide spectrum of technologies, manufacturers, models, parameters, and ages, reflecting the 60 years of CERN history. The use of strict rules and data structures in the declaration of the assets can make a big impact on the overall system maintainability and therefore on the global reliability of the installation. Organized assets data facilitates the creation of powerful reports that help asset owners and management address material obsolescence and end-of-life concerns with a global perspective Historically preventive maintenance have been used to assure the correct function of the installations. With modern supervision systems, a lot of data is collected and can be used to move from preventive maintenance towards data driven maintenance (predictive). Moreover it optimizes maintenance cost and increase system availability while maintaining reliability. A prerequisite of this move is a coherence on the assets defined in the asset management system and in the supervision system.
	Poster WEMPR004 [0.675 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEMPR004
About •	paper received ※ 27 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 10 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020
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WEPHA019	MONARC: Supervising the Archiving Infrastructure of CERN Control Systems	database, controls, data-acquisition, monitoring	1111
	J-C. Tournier, E. Blanco Viñuela CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The CERN industrial control systems, using WinCC OA as SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), share a common history data archiving system relying on an Oracle infrastructure. It consists of 2 clusters of two nodes for a total of more than 250 schemas. Due to the large number of schemas and of the shared nature of the infrastructure, three basic needs arose: (1) monitor, i.e. get the inventory of all DB nodes and schemas along with their configurations such as the type of partitioning and their retention period; (2) control, i.e. parameterise each schema individually; and (3) supervise, i.e. have an overview of the health of the infrastructure and be notified of misbehaving schemas or database node. In this publication, we are presenting a way to monitor, control and supervise the data archiving system based on a classical SCADA system. The paper is organized in three parts: the first part presents the main functionalities of the application, while the second part digs into its architecture and implementation. The third part presents a set of use cases demonstrating the benefit of using the application.
	Poster WEPHA019 [2.556 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA019
About •	paper received ※ 30 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 19 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020
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WEPHA114	Integration of New Siemens S7-1500 PLC Family in UNICOS-CPC: Engineering Challenges and Performance Evaluation	PLC, controls, framework, MMI	1359
	J.O. Ortolá Vidal, M. Vazquez Muñiz CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	UNICOS-CPC (UNified Industrial COntrol System - Continuous Control Package) framework is the CERN standard solution for the design and implementation of continuous industrial process control applications. This paper reports on the design and test results of the integration of a new PLC platform, the new S7-1500 Siemens PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) series. Special focus is given to the challenges faced during the integration due to the new software architecture of the PLC, as well as to the early stage of the development and interfaces provided by the supplier. The paper shows the TIA portal openness capabilities of the PLC development tool and presents a comprehensive evaluation of the PLC-SCADA communication mechanisms, as well as their integration in UNICOS-CPC.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA114
About •	paper received ※ 26 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 10 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020
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WEPHA139	Scaling Up the Deployment and Operation of an ELK Technology Stack	monitoring, controls, operation, framework	1431
	S. Boychenko, P. Martel, B. Schofield CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Since its integration into the CERN industrial controls environment, the SCADA Statistics project has become a valuable asset for controls engineers and hardware experts in their daily monitoring and maintenance tasks. The adoption of the tool outside of the Industrial Controls and Safety Systems group scope is currently being evaluated by ALICE, since they have similar requirements for alarms and value changes monitoring in their experiment. The increasing interest in scaling up the SCADA Statistics project with new customers has motivated the review of the infrastructure deployment, configuration management and service maintenance policies. In this paper we present the modifications we have integrated in order to improve its configuration flexibility, maintainability and reliability. With this improved solution we believe we can propose our solution to a wider scope of customers.
	Poster WEPHA139 [0.342 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA139
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WESH4003	Continuous Integration for PLC-based Control Systems	PLC, controls, framework, interface	1527
	B. Schofield, E. Blanco Viñuela CERN, Geneva, Switzerland J.H.P.D.C. Borrego IPFN - IST, Bobadela, Portugal
	Continuous integration is widespread in software development, but a number of factors have thus far limited its use in PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) application development. A key requirement of continuous integration is that build and test stages must be automated. Automation of the build stage can be difficult for PLC developers, as building is typically performed with proprietary engineering tools. This has been solved by developing command line utilities which use the APIs of these tools. Another issue is that the program must be deployed to a real target (PLC) in order to test, something that is typically easier to do in other types of software development, where virtual environments may easily be used. This is solved by expanding the command line utilities to allow fully automated deployment of the PLC program. Finally, testing the PLC program presents its own challenges, as it is typically undesirable to alter the program in order to implement the tests natively in the PLC. This is avoided by using an industry standard protocol (OPC UA) to access PLC variables for testing purposes, allowing tests to be performed on an unaltered program.
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Data Streaming With Apache Kafka for CERN Supervision, Control and Data Acquisition System for Radiation and Environmental Protection

controls, real-time, radiation, monitoring

147

A. Ledeul, A. Savulescu, G. Segura, B. Styczen
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland

The CERN HSE - occupational Health & Safety and Environmental protection - Unit develops and operates REMUS - Radiation and Environmental Unified Supervision - , a Radiation and Environmental Supervision, Control and Data Acquisition system, covering CERN accelerators, experiments and their surrounding environment. REMUS is now making use of modern data streaming technologies in order to provide a secure, reliable, scalable and loosely coupled solution for streaming near real-time data in and out of the system. Integrating the open-source streaming platform Apache Kafka allows the system to stream near real-time data to Data Visualization Tools and Web Interfaces. It also permits full-duplex communication with external Control Systems and IIoT - Industrial Internet Of Things - devices, without compromising the security of the system and using a widely adopted technology. This paper describes the architecture of the system put in place, and the numerous applications it opens up for REMUS and Control Systems in general.

Poster MOMPL010 [25.881 MB]

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MOPHA003

Integrating Mobile Devices Into CNAO’s Control System, a Web Service Approach to Device Communication

controls, interface, software, framework

192

C.F. Afonso, L. Casalegno, S. Foglio, S.G. Gioia, M. Necchi, S. Toncelli
CNAO Foundation, Pavia, Italy
C. Larizza
Pavia University, Biomedical Informatics Lab "Mario Stefanelli", Pavia, Italy

Funding: Horizon2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No 675265
The Italian National Hadrontherapy Center (CNAO) is a cancer treatment center employing a synchrotron to accelerate charged particle beams. The configuration and support environment of CNAO’s control system is responsible for managing the repository, configuring the control system, as well as performing non-real time support operations. Applications in this environment interface with the relational repository, remote file systems, as well as lower level control system components. As part of the technological upgrade of the configuration and support environment, CNAO plans to integrate mobile applications into the control system. In order to lay the groundwork for the new generation of applications, new communication interfaces had to be designed. To achieve this, a web services approach was taken, with the objective of standardizing access to these resources. In this paper we describe in detail the update of the communication channels. Additionally, several solutions to challenges encountered, such as access management, logging, and interoperability, are presented.

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MOPHA022

Implementation of ISO 50001 Energy Management System With the Advantage of Archive Viewer in NSRRC

network, controls, instrumentation, factory

239

C.S. Chen, W.S. Chan, Y.Y. Cheng, Y.F. Chiu, Y.-C. Chung, K.C. Kuo, M.T. Lee, Y.-C. Lin, C.Y. Liu, Z.-D. Tsai
NSRRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Due to the limited energy resources in Taiwan, energy conservation is always a big issue for everyone who lives in this country. According to the data from the related departments, nearly 98% of energy is imported from abroad for more than a decade. Despite the strong dependency on foreign fuel imports, the energy subsidy policy leads to a relatively low cost of energy for end users, while it is not reasonable. In order to resolve the energy resource shortage and pursue a more efficient energy use, the implementation of ISO 50001 energy management system is activated with the advantage of the Archive Viewer in NSRRC this year. The energy management system will build up a overall energy usage model and several energy performance indicators to help us achieve efficient energy usage.

Poster MOPHA022 [0.842 MB]

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MOPHA041

Cause-and-Effect Matrix Specifications for Safety Critical Systems at CERN

operation, PLC, controls, cryogenics

285

B. Fernández Adiego, E. Blanco Viñuela, M. Charrondiere, R. Speroni
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
M. Bonet, H.D. Hamisch, M.H. de Queiroz
UFSC, Florianópolis, Brazil

One of the most critical phases in the development of a Safety Instrumented System (SIS) is the functional specification of the Safety Instrumented Functions (SIFs). This step is carried out by a multidisciplinary team of process, controls and safety experts. This functional specification must be simple, unambiguous and compact to allow capturing the requirements from the risk analysis, and facilitating the design, implementation and verification of the SIFs. The Cause and Effect Matrix (CEM) formalism provides a visual representation of Boolean expressions. This makes it adequate to specify stateless logic, such as the safety interlock logic of a SIS. At CERN, a methodology based on the CEM has been applied to the development of a SIS for a magnet test bench facility. This paper shows the applicability of this methodology in a real magnet test bench and presents its impact in the different phases of the IEC 61511 safety lifecycle.

Poster MOPHA041 [0.751 MB]

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MOPHA100

quasar : The Full-Stack Solution for Creation of OPC-UA Middleware

software, controls, embedded, detector

453

P.P. Nikiel, P. Moschovakos, S. Schlenker
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland

Quasar (Quick OPC-UA Server Generation Framework) enables efficient development of OPC-UA servers. The project evolved into a software ecosystem providing complete OPC-UA support for Detector Control Systems. OPC-UA servers can be modeled and generated and profit from tooling to aid development, deployment and maintenance. OPC-UA client libraries can be generated and published to users. Client-server chaining is supported. quasar was used to build OPC-UA servers for different computing platforms including server machines, credit-card computers as well as System-on-a-chip solutions. Quasar generated servers can be integrated as slave modules into other software projects written in higher-level programming languages (such as Python) to provide OPC-UA information exchange. quasar supports quick and efficient integration of OPC-UA servers into a control system based on the WinCC OA SCADA platform. The ecosystem can work with different OPC-UA stacks including 100% free and open-source ones. Thus it’s not restricted by licensing constraints. The contribution will present an overview and the evolution of the ecosystem along with example applications from ATLAS DCS and beyond.

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MOPHA117

Big Data Archiving From Oracle to Hadoop

database, network, monitoring, operation

497

I. Prieto Barreiro, M. Sobieszek
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland

The CERN Accelerator Logging Service (CALS) is used to persist data of around 2 million predefined signals coming from heterogeneous sources such as the electricity infrastructure, industrial controls like cryogenics and vacuum, or beam related data. This old Oracle based logging system will be phased out at the end of the LHC’s Long Shut-down 2 (LS2) and will be replaced by the Next CERN Accelerator Logging Service (NXCALS) which is based on Hadoop. As a consequence, the different data sources must be adapted to persist the data in the new logging system. This paper describes the solution implemented to archive into NXCALS the data produced by QPS (Quench Protection System) and SCADAR (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition Relational database) systems, which generate a total of around 175, 000 values per second. To cope with such a volume of data the new service has to be extremely robust, scalable and fail-safe with guaranteed data delivery and no data loss. The paper also explains how to recover from different failure scenarios like e.g. network disruption and how to manage and monitor this highly distributed service.

Poster MOPHA117 [1.227 MB]

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paper received ※ 29 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 10 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020

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MOPHA123

Vacuum Controls Configurator: A Web Based Configuration Tool for Large Scale Vacuum Control Systems

vacuum, database, controls, PLC

511

A.P. Rocha, I.A. Amador, S. Blanchard, J. Fraga, P. Gomes, C.V. Lima, G. Pigny, P. Poulopoulou
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The Vacuum Controls Configurator (vacCC) is an application developed at CERN for the management of large-scale vacuum control systems. The application was developed to facilitate the management of the configuration of the vacuum control system at CERN, the largest vacuum system in operation in the world, with over 15,000 vacuum devices spread over 128 km of vacuum chambers. It allows non-experts in software to easily integrate or modify vacuum devices within the control system via a web browser. It automatically generates configuration data that enables the communication between vacuum devices and the supervision system, the generation of SCADA synoptics, long and short term archiving, and the publishing of vacuum data to external systems. VacCC is a web application built for the cloud, dockerized, and based on a microservice architecture. In this paper, we unveil the application’s main aspects concerning its architecture, data flow, data validation, and generation of configuration for SCADA/PLC.

Poster MOPHA123 [1.317 MB]

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WEMPR004

Why Should You Invest in Asset Management? A Fire and Gas Use Case

detector, database, software, MMI

1041

H. Nissen, S. Grau
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

At present, the CERN Fire and Gas detection systems involve about 22500 sensors and their number is increasing rapidly at the same time as the number of equipped installations grows up. These assets cover a wide spectrum of technologies, manufacturers, models, parameters, and ages, reflecting the 60 years of CERN history. The use of strict rules and data structures in the declaration of the assets can make a big impact on the overall system maintainability and therefore on the global reliability of the installation. Organized assets data facilitates the creation of powerful reports that help asset owners and management address material obsolescence and end-of-life concerns with a global perspective Historically preventive maintenance have been used to assure the correct function of the installations. With modern supervision systems, a lot of data is collected and can be used to move from preventive maintenance towards data driven maintenance (predictive). Moreover it optimizes maintenance cost and increase system availability while maintaining reliability. A prerequisite of this move is a coherence on the assets defined in the asset management system and in the supervision system.

Poster WEMPR004 [0.675 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEMPR004

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paper received ※ 27 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 10 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020

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WEPHA019

MONARC: Supervising the Archiving Infrastructure of CERN Control Systems

database, controls, data-acquisition, monitoring

1111

J-C. Tournier, E. Blanco Viñuela
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The CERN industrial control systems, using WinCC OA as SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), share a common history data archiving system relying on an Oracle infrastructure. It consists of 2 clusters of two nodes for a total of more than 250 schemas. Due to the large number of schemas and of the shared nature of the infrastructure, three basic needs arose: (1) monitor, i.e. get the inventory of all DB nodes and schemas along with their configurations such as the type of partitioning and their retention period; (2) control, i.e. parameterise each schema individually; and (3) supervise, i.e. have an overview of the health of the infrastructure and be notified of misbehaving schemas or database node. In this publication, we are presenting a way to monitor, control and supervise the data archiving system based on a classical SCADA system. The paper is organized in three parts: the first part presents the main functionalities of the application, while the second part digs into its architecture and implementation. The third part presents a set of use cases demonstrating the benefit of using the application.

Poster WEPHA019 [2.556 MB]

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WEPHA114

Integration of New Siemens S7-1500 PLC Family in UNICOS-CPC: Engineering Challenges and Performance Evaluation

PLC, controls, framework, MMI

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J.O. Ortolá Vidal, M. Vazquez Muñiz
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

UNICOS-CPC (UNified Industrial COntrol System - Continuous Control Package) framework is the CERN standard solution for the design and implementation of continuous industrial process control applications. This paper reports on the design and test results of the integration of a new PLC platform, the new S7-1500 Siemens PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) series. Special focus is given to the challenges faced during the integration due to the new software architecture of the PLC, as well as to the early stage of the development and interfaces provided by the supplier. The paper shows the TIA portal openness capabilities of the PLC development tool and presents a comprehensive evaluation of the PLC-SCADA communication mechanisms, as well as their integration in UNICOS-CPC.

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WEPHA139

Scaling Up the Deployment and Operation of an ELK Technology Stack

monitoring, controls, operation, framework

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S. Boychenko, P. Martel, B. Schofield
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Since its integration into the CERN industrial controls environment, the SCADA Statistics project has become a valuable asset for controls engineers and hardware experts in their daily monitoring and maintenance tasks. The adoption of the tool outside of the Industrial Controls and Safety Systems group scope is currently being evaluated by ALICE, since they have similar requirements for alarms and value changes monitoring in their experiment. The increasing interest in scaling up the SCADA Statistics project with new customers has motivated the review of the infrastructure deployment, configuration management and service maintenance policies. In this paper we present the modifications we have integrated in order to improve its configuration flexibility, maintainability and reliability. With this improved solution we believe we can propose our solution to a wider scope of customers.

Poster WEPHA139 [0.342 MB]

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WESH4003

Continuous Integration for PLC-based Control Systems

PLC, controls, framework, interface

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B. Schofield, E. Blanco Viñuela
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
J.H.P.D.C. Borrego
IPFN - IST, Bobadela, Portugal

Continuous integration is widespread in software development, but a number of factors have thus far limited its use in PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) application development. A key requirement of continuous integration is that build and test stages must be automated. Automation of the build stage can be difficult for PLC developers, as building is typically performed with proprietary engineering tools. This has been solved by developing command line utilities which use the APIs of these tools. Another issue is that the program must be deployed to a real target (PLC) in order to test, something that is typically easier to do in other types of software development, where virtual environments may easily be used. This is solved by expanding the command line utilities to allow fully automated deployment of the PLC program. Finally, testing the PLC program presents its own challenges, as it is typically undesirable to alter the program in order to implement the tests natively in the PLC. This is avoided by using an industry standard protocol (OPC UA) to access PLC variables for testing purposes, allowing tests to be performed on an unaltered program.

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