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Control System Studio (CSS) is designed to serve as an integration platform for engineering and operation of todays process controls as well as machine controls systems. Therefore CSS is not yet another replacement of existing operator interfaces (OPI) but a complete environment for the control room covering alarm management, archived data displays diagnostic tools and last not least operator interfaces. In addition we decided to use CSS as the platform for the whole engineering chain configuring EPICS based process control databases, configuring and managing the I/O, editing state notation programs, configuring role based access rights and many more. Due to the ease of use of CSS as an Eclipse based product, we decided to use the CSS core also for all our stand alone processes. This helped us to reduce the diversity of running products/ processes and simplified the management. In this presentation we will describe our experience with CSS over the last two years. How we managed the transition from old displays to new ones, how we changed our alarm/ message philosophy and last not least which lessons we learned.
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