INDUSTRIAL AND COLLABORATIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS
- A COMPLEMENTARY SYMBIOSIS –
- Looking at today?s control system one can find a wide variety of
implementations. From pure industrial to collaborative control system (CCS) tool
kits to home grown systems and any variation in-between. Decisions on the type
of implementation should be driven by technical arguments Reality shows that
financial and sociological reasons form the complete picture. Any decision has it?s
advantagesand it?s drawbacks. Reliability, good documentation and support are
arguments for industrial controls. Financial arguments drive decisions towards
collaborative tools. Keeping the hands on the source code and being able to solve
problems on your own and faster than industry are the argument for home grown
solutions or open source solutions. The experience of many years of operations
shows that which solution is the primary one does not matter, there are always
areas where at least part of the other implementations exist. As a result
heterogeneous systems have to be maintained. The support for different protocols
is essential. This paper describes our experience with industrial control systems,
PLC controlled turn key systems, the CCS tool kit EPICS and the operability
between all of them.
- INTRODUCTION
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Process controls in general started at DESY in the early 80 with the
installation of the cryogenic control system for the accelerator HERA
(Hadron-Elektron-Ring-Anlage). A new technology was necessarybecausethe
existing hardware was not capable to handle standard process controls signals like
4 to 20mA input and output signals and the softw
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