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RIS citation export for TUPHA046: PLC Factory: Automating Routine Tasks in Large-Scale PLC Software Development

TY - CONF
AU - Ulm, G.
AU - Bellorini, F.
AU - Brodrick, D.P.
AU - Fernandes, R.N.
AU - Levchenko, N.
AU - Piso, D.P.
ED - Schaa, Volker RW
ED - Costa, Isidre
ED - Fernández, David
ED - Matilla, Óscar
TI - PLC Factory: Automating Routine Tasks in Large-Scale PLC Software Development
J2 - Proc. of ICALEPCS2017, Barcelona, Spain, 8-13 October 2017
C1 - Barcelona, Spain
T2 - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Control Systems
T3 - 16
LA - english
AB - The European Spallation Source ERIC (ESS) in Lund, Sweden, is building large-scale infrastructure that is projected to include hundreds of programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Given the future large-scale deployment of PLCs at ESS, we therefore explored ways of automating some of the tasks associated with PLC programming. We designed and implemented PLC Factory, which is an application written in Python that facilitates large-scale PLC development. With PLC Factory, we managed to automate repetitive tasks associated with PLC programming and interfacing PLCs with an EPICS database. A key part of PLC Factory is its embedded domain-specific programming language PLCF#, which makes it possible to define dynamic substitutions. Using a database for configuration management, PLC Factory is able to generate both EPICS database records as well as code blocks in Structured Control Language (SCL) for the Siemens product TIA Portal. Hierarchies of devices of arbitrary depth are taken into account, which means that dependencies of devices are correctly resolved. PLC Factory is in active use at ESS.
PB - JACoW
CP - Geneva, Switzerland
SP - 495
EP - 500
KW - ion
KW - PLC
KW - factory
KW - controls
KW - EPICS
DA - 2018/01
PY - 2018
SN - 978-3-95450-193-9
DO - 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2017-TUPHA046
UR - http://jacow.org/icalepcs2017/papers/tupha046.pdf
ER -