ICALEPCS2019 - List of Authors (Fernandes, R.N.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOSH3001	An EPICS Channel Access Implementation on Siemens PLCs	648
MOPHA018	use link to see paper's listing under its alternate paper code
	M. Boros evopro Holding Zrt., The evopro group, Budapest, Hungary R.N. Fernandes ESS, Lund, Sweden B. Peceli, G. Singler evopro Innovation Ltd, Budapest, Hungary
	At the European Spallation Source (ESS), a neutron research facility in Sweden, most of the controls are based on PLCs and layered in the following (traditional) way: field equipment <-> PLC <-> EPICS IOC <-> high-level applications. In many situations, the EPICS IOC layer will not implement control logic per se and is only used for converting PLC tags into EPICS PVs to enable the usage of high-level applications such as CS-Studio, Archiver Appliance, and BEAST. To alleviate this (traditional) way of doing controls, we propose a simpler approach: implementation of the Channel Access (CA) protocol in the PLC layer for the latest family of Siemens PLCs to remove the EPICS IOC layer. We called it S7EPICS. S7EPICS fully respects version 13 of the CA protocol specification, and supports multiple EPICS-based client connections at the same time - e.g. CS-Studio, Archiver Appliance - without a noticeable service degradation (i.e. delays). In this paper we introduce this implementation, its architecture and workflow, benchmarking results of tests performed, and future developments that could be pursued such as authentication & authorization mechanisms using, e.g., the Arrowhead Framework.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOSH3001
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WEPHA047	Cable Database at ESS	1199
	R.N. Fernandes, S.R. Gysin, J.A. Persson, S. Regnell ESS, Lund, Sweden L.J.G. Johansson OTIF, Malmö, Sweden S. Sah Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia M. Salmič COSYLAB, Control System Laboratory, Ljubljana, Slovenia
	When completed, the European Spallation Source (ESS) will have around half a million of installed cables to power and control both the machine and end-stations instruments. To keep track of all these cables throughout the different phases of ESS, an application called Cable Database was developed at the Integrated Control System (ICS) Division. It provides a web-based graphical interface where authorized users may perform CRUD operations in cables, as well as batch imports (through well-defined EXCEL files) to substantially shortened the time needed to deal with massive amounts of cables at once. Besides cables, the Cable Database manages cable types, connectors, manufacturers and routing points, thus fully handling the information that surrounds cables. Additionally, it provides a programmatic interface through RESTful services that other ICS applications (e.g. CCDB) may consume to successfully perform their domain specific businesses. The present paper introduces the Cable Database and describes its features, architecture and technology stack, data concepts and interfaces. Finally, it enumerates development directions that could be pursued to further improve this application.
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WEPHA048	Management of IOCs at ESS	1204
	R.N. Fernandes, S.R. Gysin, T. Korhonen, J.A. Persson, S. Regnell ESS, Lund, Sweden M. Pavleski, S. Sah Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
	The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a neutron research facility based in Sweden that will be in operation in 2023. It is expected to have around 1500 IOCs controlling both the machine and end-station instruments. To manage the IOCs, an application called IOC Factory was developed at ESS. It provides a consistent and centralized approach on how IOCs are configured, generated, browsed and audited. The configuration allows users to select EPICS module versions of interest, and set EPICS environment variables and macros for IOCs. The generation automatically creates IOCs according to configurations. Browsing retrieves information on when, how and why IOCs were generated and by whom. Finally, auditing tracks changes of generated IOCs deployed locally. To achieve these functionalities, the IOC Factory relies on two other applications: the Controls Configuration Database (CCDB) and the ESS EPICS Environment (E3). The first stores information about IOCs, devices controlled by these, and required EPICS modules and snippets, while the second stores snippets needed to generate IOCs (st.cmd files). Combined, these applications enable ESS to successfully manage IOCs with minimum effort.
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MOSH3001

An EPICS Channel Access Implementation on Siemens PLCs

648

MOPHA018

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M. Boros
evopro Holding Zrt., The evopro group, Budapest, Hungary
R.N. Fernandes
ESS, Lund, Sweden
B. Peceli, G. Singler
evopro Innovation Ltd, Budapest, Hungary

At the European Spallation Source (ESS), a neutron research facility in Sweden, most of the controls are based on PLCs and layered in the following (traditional) way: field equipment <-> PLC <-> EPICS IOC <-> high-level applications. In many situations, the EPICS IOC layer will not implement control logic per se and is only used for converting PLC tags into EPICS PVs to enable the usage of high-level applications such as CS-Studio, Archiver Appliance, and BEAST. To alleviate this (traditional) way of doing controls, we propose a simpler approach: implementation of the Channel Access (CA) protocol in the PLC layer for the latest family of Siemens PLCs to remove the EPICS IOC layer. We called it S7EPICS. S7EPICS fully respects version 13 of the CA protocol specification, and supports multiple EPICS-based client connections at the same time - e.g. CS-Studio, Archiver Appliance - without a noticeable service degradation (i.e. delays). In this paper we introduce this implementation, its architecture and workflow, benchmarking results of tests performed, and future developments that could be pursued such as authentication & authorization mechanisms using, e.g., the Arrowhead Framework.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOSH3001

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paper received ※ 30 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 09 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020

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WEPHA047

Cable Database at ESS

1199

R.N. Fernandes, S.R. Gysin, J.A. Persson, S. Regnell
ESS, Lund, Sweden
L.J.G. Johansson
OTIF, Malmö, Sweden
S. Sah
Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
M. Salmič
COSYLAB, Control System Laboratory, Ljubljana, Slovenia

When completed, the European Spallation Source (ESS) will have around half a million of installed cables to power and control both the machine and end-stations instruments. To keep track of all these cables throughout the different phases of ESS, an application called Cable Database was developed at the Integrated Control System (ICS) Division. It provides a web-based graphical interface where authorized users may perform CRUD operations in cables, as well as batch imports (through well-defined EXCEL files) to substantially shortened the time needed to deal with massive amounts of cables at once. Besides cables, the Cable Database manages cable types, connectors, manufacturers and routing points, thus fully handling the information that surrounds cables. Additionally, it provides a programmatic interface through RESTful services that other ICS applications (e.g. CCDB) may consume to successfully perform their domain specific businesses. The present paper introduces the Cable Database and describes its features, architecture and technology stack, data concepts and interfaces. Finally, it enumerates development directions that could be pursued to further improve this application.

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA047

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paper received ※ 30 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 09 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020

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WEPHA048

Management of IOCs at ESS

1204

R.N. Fernandes, S.R. Gysin, T. Korhonen, J.A. Persson, S. Regnell
ESS, Lund, Sweden
M. Pavleski, S. Sah
Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia

The European Spallation Source (ESS) is a neutron research facility based in Sweden that will be in operation in 2023. It is expected to have around 1500 IOCs controlling both the machine and end-station instruments. To manage the IOCs, an application called IOC Factory was developed at ESS. It provides a consistent and centralized approach on how IOCs are configured, generated, browsed and audited. The configuration allows users to select EPICS module versions of interest, and set EPICS environment variables and macros for IOCs. The generation automatically creates IOCs according to configurations. Browsing retrieves information on when, how and why IOCs were generated and by whom. Finally, auditing tracks changes of generated IOCs deployed locally. To achieve these functionalities, the IOC Factory relies on two other applications: the Controls Configuration Database (CCDB) and the ESS EPICS Environment (E3). The first stores information about IOCs, devices controlled by these, and required EPICS modules and snippets, while the second stores snippets needed to generate IOCs (st.cmd files). Combined, these applications enable ESS to successfully manage IOCs with minimum effort.

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA048

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paper received ※ 30 September 2019 paper accepted ※ 09 October 2019 issue date ※ 30 August 2020

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