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TY - CONF AU - Ludwig, M. AU - Arroyo Garcia, J.A.R. AU - Bengulescu, M. AU - Farnham, B. AU - Gonzalez Jimenez, P.G.J. AU - Varela, F. ED - Cheng, Yung-Sen ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Chiu, Pei-Chen ED - Li, Lu ED - Liu, Yung-Hui ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine TI - Developing and Validating OPC-UA Based Industrial Controls for Power Supplies at CERN J2 - Proc. of PCaPAC2018, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 16-19 October 2018 CY - Hsinchu, Taiwan T2 - International Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Scientific Facilities Controls T3 - 12 LA - english AB - The industrial control systems of CERN’s experiments are undergoing major renovation since 2017 and well into CERN’s second Long Shutdown (LS2) until the end of 2019. Each detector power-supply control system runs several hundred software instances consisting of many different components in parallel on a large scale, broadly distinguishable as servers and clients. Our accumulated experience during LHC runs proves that some complex control issues are impossible to detect using stand-alone components on a small scale only. Furthermore, new components must be developed well before the electron-ics becomes available, without impact on operations. Moreover, during LS2, the improved and now widely established Open Protocol Communication Unified Ar-chitecture (OPC-UA) replaces OPC-DA as middleware protocol. For these reasons, we developed a simulation environment to emulate the real, and valuable, CAEN power-supply electronics underneath the OPC-UA serv-ers. This distributed simulation is configurable to mimic and exceed the nominal conditions during production and provides a repeatable setup for validation. This paper discusses the functionality and use of this simulation service. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 35 EP - 37 DA - 2019/01 PY - 2019 SN - 978-3-95450-200-4 DO - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2018-WEP04 UR - http://jacow.org/pcapac2018/papers/wep04.pdf ER -