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RIS citation export for MO1BCO02: ITER Controls Approaching One Million Integrated EPICS Process Variables

TY  - CONF
AU  - Wallander, A.
AU  - Bauvir, B.
ED  - Schaa, Volker RW
ED  - Götz, Andy
ED  - Venter, Johan
ED  - White, Karen
ED  - Robichon, Marie
ED  - Rowland, Vivienne
TI  - ITER Controls Approaching One Million Integrated EPICS Process Variables
J2  - Proc. of ICALEPCS2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 09-13 October 2023
CY  - Cape Town, South Africa
T2  - International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems
T3  - 19
LA  - english
AB  - The ITER Tokamak is currently being assembled in southern France. In parallel, the supporting systems have completed installation and are under commissioning or operation. Over the last couple of years the electrical distribution, building services, liquid & gas, cooling water, reactive power compensation and cryoplant have been integrated, adding up to close to one million process variables. Those systems are operated, or under commissioning, from a temporary main control room or local control rooms close to the equipment using an integrated infrastructure. The ITER control system is therefore in production. As the ITER procurement is 90\% in-kind, a major challenge has been the integration of the various systems provided by suppliers from the ITER members. Standardization, CODAC Core System software distribution, training and coaching have all played a positive role. Nevertheless, the integration has been more difficult than foreseen and the central team has been forced to rework much of the delivered software. In this paper we report on the current status of the ITER integrated control system with emphasize on lessons learned from integration of in-kind contributions. 
PB  - JACoW Publishing
CP  - Geneva, Switzerland
SP  - 6
EP  - 11
KW  - controls
KW  - software
KW  - MMI
KW  - operation
KW  - network
DA  - 2024/02
PY  - 2024
SN  - 2226-0358
SN  - 978-3-95450-238-7
DO  - doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO1BCO02
UR  - https://jacow.org/icalepcs2023/papers/mo1bco02.pdf
ER  -