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Title	Cryogenic Control System Migration and Developments towards the UNICOS CERN Standard at INFN
Author(s)	Modanese, Paolo (INFN, Legnaro) ; Calore, Andrea (INFN, Legnaro ; CERN) ; Contran, Tiziano (INFN, Legnaro) ; Friso, Alessandro (INFN, Legnaro) ; Pengo, Marco (INFN, Legnaro) ; Canella, Stefania (INFN, Legnaro) ; Burioli, Sergio (INFN, Aquila) ; Gallese, Benedetto (INFN, Genoa) ; Inglese, Vitaliano (CERN) ; Pezzetti, Marco (CERN) ; Pengo, Ruggero (INFN, Legnaro)
Publication	2015
Number of pages	7
In:	Phys. Procedia 67 (2015) 163-169
In:	25th International Cryogenic Conference & International Cryogenic Materials Conference 2014, Twente U., Enschede, The Netherlands, 07 - 11 Jul 2014, pp.163-169
DOI	10.1016/j.phpro.2015.06.029
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings ; Detectors and Experimental Techniques
Abstract	The cryogenic control systems at Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (LNL) are undergoing an important and radical modernization, allowing all the plants controls and supervision systems to be renewed in a homogeneous way towards the CERN-UNICOS standard. Before the UNICOS migration project started there were as many as 7 different types of PLC and 7 different types of SCADA, each one requiring its own particular programming language. In these conditions, even a simple modification and/or integration on the program or on the supervision, required the intervention of a system integrator company, specialized in its specific control system. Furthermore it implied that the operators have to be trained to learn the different types of control systems. The CERN-UNICOS invented for LHC [1] has been chosen due to its reliability and planned to run and be maintained for decades on. The complete migration is part of an agreement between CERN and INFN.
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