ICALEPCS2017 - List of Authors (Gomes, P.)

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MOCPL04	LTE/3G Based Wireless Communications for Remote Control and Monitoring of PLC-Controlled Vacuum Mobile Devices	64
	R. Ferreira, S. Blanchard, P. Gomes, G. Pigny CERN, Geneva, Switzerland T.R. Fernandes ESTGL, Leiria, Portugal
	All particle accelerators and most experiments at CERN require high (HV) or ultra-high (UHV) vacuum levels. Contributing to vacuum production are two types of mobile devices: Turbo-Molecular Pumping Groups and Bakeout Racks. During accelerator stops, these PLC-controlled devices are temporarily installed in the tunnels and integrated in the Vacuum SCADA, through wired Profibus-DP. This method, though functional, poses cer-tain issues which a wireless solution would greatly miti-gate. The CERN private LTE/3G network is available in the accelerators through a leaky-feeder antenna cable which spans the whole length of the tunnels. This paper describes the conception and implementation of an LTE/3G-based modular communication system for PLC-controlled vacuum mobile devices. It details the hardware and software architecture of the system and lays the foun-dation of a solution that can be easily adapted to systems other than vacuum.
	Talk as video stream: https://youtu.be/1u6WmPACSs8
	Slides MOCPL04 [4.354 MB]
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TUPHA044	Integration of the Vacuum Scada With CERN's Enterprise Asset Management System	490
	A.P. Rocha, S. Blanchard, J. Fraga, G. Gkioka, P. Gomes, L.A. Gonzalez, T. Krastev, G. Riddone, D. Widegren CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The vacuum group is responsible for the operation and consolidation of vacuum systems across all CERN accelerators. Concerning over 15 000 pieces of control equipment, the maintenance management requires the usage of an Enterprise Asset Management system (EAM), where the life-cycle of every individual equipment is managed from reception through decommissioning. On vacuum SCADA, the operators monitor and interact with equipment that were declared in the vacuum database (vacDB). The creation of work orders and the follow up of the equipment is done through inforEAM, which has its own database. These two databases need to be coupled, so that equipment accessible on the SCADA are available in inforEAM for maintenance management. This paper describes the underlying architecture and technologies behind vacDM, a web application that ensures the consistency between vacDB and inforEAM, thus guaranteeing that the equipment displayed in the vacuum SCADA is available in inforEAM. In addition to this, vacDM performs the management of equipment labelling jobs by assigning equipment codes to new equipment, and by automatically creating their corresponding assets in inforEAM.
	Poster TUPHA044 [1.138 MB]
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THPHA016	The UNICOS-CPC Vacuum Controls Package	1370
	S. Blanchard, M. Bes, E. Blanco Viñuela, W. Booth, B. Bradu, R. Ferreira, P. Gomes, A. Gutierrez, A.P. Rocha, T.H. van Winden CERN, Geneva, Switzerland L. Kopylov IHEP, Moscow Region, Russia
	The vacuum control of the Large Hadron Collider and its injectors is based on PLC and SCADA off-the-shelf components. Since late '90s, CERN's vacuum group has developed a dedicated control framework to drive, monitor and log the more than 10 000 vacuum instruments. Also, in 1998, CERN's industrial controls group developed the UNICOS framework (UNified Industrial Control System), becoming a de facto standard of industrial control systems and gradually deployed in different domains at CERN (e.g. Cryogenics, HVAC…). After an initial prototype applying the UNICOS-CPC (Continuous Process Control) framework to the controls of some vacuum installations, both teams have been working on the development of vacuum-specific objects and their integration, together with new features, into the UNICOS framework. Such convergence will allow this generic framework to better fit the vacuum systems, while offering the advantages of using a widespread and well-supported framework. This paper reports on the experience acquired in the development and deployment of vacuum specific objects in running installations, as a prototype for the vacuum controls convergence with UNICOS.
	Poster THPHA016 [1.062 MB]
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THPHA056	The Linac4 Vacuum Control System	1494
	S. Blanchard, J. De La Gama, R. Ferreira, P. Gomes, A. Gutierrez, G. Pigny, A.P. Rocha CERN, Geneva, Switzerland L. Kopylov, M.S. Mikheev IHEP, Moscow Region, Russia
	Linac4 is 160 MeV H⁻ linear accelerator replacing Linac2 as the first injector to the CERN accelerator complex, that culminates with the Large Hadron Collider. This new linac will increase the beam brightness by a factor of two. The vacuum installation consists of 235 remotely controlled pumps, valves and gauges. These instruments are either controlled individually or driven by pumping stations and gas injection processes. Valves and pumps are interlocked according to gauge pressure levels and pump statuses. The vacuum control system communicates with the beam interlock system, the ion source electronics and the Radio Frequency control system, through cabled digital and analog signals. The vacuum control system is based on commercial Programmable Logical Controllers (Siemens PLCs) and a Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition application (Siemens SCADA: WINCC OA). This paper describes the control architecture and process, and reports on the control requirements and the implemented solutions.
	Poster THPHA056 [1.361 MB]
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LTE/3G Based Wireless Communications for Remote Control and Monitoring of PLC-Controlled Vacuum Mobile Devices

64

R. Ferreira, S. Blanchard, P. Gomes, G. Pigny
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
T.R. Fernandes
ESTGL, Leiria, Portugal

All particle accelerators and most experiments at CERN require high (HV) or ultra-high (UHV) vacuum levels. Contributing to vacuum production are two types of mobile devices: Turbo-Molecular Pumping Groups and Bakeout Racks. During accelerator stops, these PLC-controlled devices are temporarily installed in the tunnels and integrated in the Vacuum SCADA, through wired Profibus-DP. This method, though functional, poses cer-tain issues which a wireless solution would greatly miti-gate. The CERN private LTE/3G network is available in the accelerators through a leaky-feeder antenna cable which spans the whole length of the tunnels. This paper describes the conception and implementation of an LTE/3G-based modular communication system for PLC-controlled vacuum mobile devices. It details the hardware and software architecture of the system and lays the foun-dation of a solution that can be easily adapted to systems other than vacuum.

Talk as video stream: https://youtu.be/1u6WmPACSs8

Slides MOCPL04 [4.354 MB]

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TUPHA044

Integration of the Vacuum Scada With CERN's Enterprise Asset Management System

490

A.P. Rocha, S. Blanchard, J. Fraga, G. Gkioka, P. Gomes, L.A. Gonzalez, T. Krastev, G. Riddone, D. Widegren
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The vacuum group is responsible for the operation and consolidation of vacuum systems across all CERN accelerators. Concerning over 15 000 pieces of control equipment, the maintenance management requires the usage of an Enterprise Asset Management system (EAM), where the life-cycle of every individual equipment is managed from reception through decommissioning. On vacuum SCADA, the operators monitor and interact with equipment that were declared in the vacuum database (vacDB). The creation of work orders and the follow up of the equipment is done through inforEAM, which has its own database. These two databases need to be coupled, so that equipment accessible on the SCADA are available in inforEAM for maintenance management. This paper describes the underlying architecture and technologies behind vacDM, a web application that ensures the consistency between vacDB and inforEAM, thus guaranteeing that the equipment displayed in the vacuum SCADA is available in inforEAM. In addition to this, vacDM performs the management of equipment labelling jobs by assigning equipment codes to new equipment, and by automatically creating their corresponding assets in inforEAM.

Poster TUPHA044 [1.138 MB]

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THPHA016

The UNICOS-CPC Vacuum Controls Package

1370

S. Blanchard, M. Bes, E. Blanco Viñuela, W. Booth, B. Bradu, R. Ferreira, P. Gomes, A. Gutierrez, A.P. Rocha, T.H. van Winden
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
L. Kopylov
IHEP, Moscow Region, Russia

The vacuum control of the Large Hadron Collider and its injectors is based on PLC and SCADA off-the-shelf components. Since late '90s, CERN's vacuum group has developed a dedicated control framework to drive, monitor and log the more than 10 000 vacuum instruments. Also, in 1998, CERN's industrial controls group developed the UNICOS framework (UNified Industrial Control System), becoming a de facto standard of industrial control systems and gradually deployed in different domains at CERN (e.g. Cryogenics, HVAC…). After an initial prototype applying the UNICOS-CPC (Continuous Process Control) framework to the controls of some vacuum installations, both teams have been working on the development of vacuum-specific objects and their integration, together with new features, into the UNICOS framework. Such convergence will allow this generic framework to better fit the vacuum systems, while offering the advantages of using a widespread and well-supported framework. This paper reports on the experience acquired in the development and deployment of vacuum specific objects in running installations, as a prototype for the vacuum controls convergence with UNICOS.

Poster THPHA016 [1.062 MB]

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THPHA056

The Linac4 Vacuum Control System

1494

S. Blanchard, J. De La Gama, R. Ferreira, P. Gomes, A. Gutierrez, G. Pigny, A.P. Rocha
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
L. Kopylov, M.S. Mikheev
IHEP, Moscow Region, Russia

Linac4 is 160 MeV H⁻ linear accelerator replacing Linac2 as the first injector to the CERN accelerator complex, that culminates with the Large Hadron Collider. This new linac will increase the beam brightness by a factor of two. The vacuum installation consists of 235 remotely controlled pumps, valves and gauges. These instruments are either controlled individually or driven by pumping stations and gas injection processes. Valves and pumps are interlocked according to gauge pressure levels and pump statuses. The vacuum control system communicates with the beam interlock system, the ion source electronics and the Radio Frequency control system, through cabled digital and analog signals. The vacuum control system is based on commercial Programmable Logical Controllers (Siemens PLCs) and a Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition application (Siemens SCADA: WINCC OA). This paper describes the control architecture and process, and reports on the control requirements and the implemented solutions.

Poster THPHA056 [1.361 MB]

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