Category: Technical Glossary

  • TC

    TC ICS group committee where technical subjects are presented for discussion and decisions by the group members. Regular group committee, taking place every 2 weeks Technical Committee

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  • CTTB

    CTTB ATS Common Hardware & Software Technologies Technical Board (CTTB) As one of the three Controls groups in the department ICS is a key player in the CTTB. Common Hardware & Software Technologies Technical Board

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  • PAS

    PAS In the ICS group, a catalogue of all ongoing Projects, existing Services and Activities in the group Project catalogue Activity catalogue Service catalogue. Where the group spends its resources Project Activity Service

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  • DSS

    DSS The DSS is responsible for safeguarding the experimental equipment. As such, it acts to prevent damage to the experimental equipment when a serious fault situation (e.g. too high temperature, water leak in a counting room) is detected, inside or outside of the detector. ICS is responsible for development and maintenance of the DSS application

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  • SCADA

    SCADA SCADA systems are used to monitor and control physical processes involved in industry and infrastructure on a large scale and over long distances. See WinCC OA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

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  • PLC

    PLC An industrial computer used for control and regulation of processes and to gather status information and error or fault conditions to be reported to for example a Control Room operator or a specialist. ICS has supply contracts on CERN level with Siemens and Schneider for PLC equipment. We also use PLCs internally for different

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  • WinCC OA

    WinCC OA SIMATIC WinCC Open Architecture (OA) is a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and human-machine interface (HMI) system from Siemens. SCADA systems are used to monitor and control physical processes involved in industry and infrastructure on a large scale and over long distances. BE-ICS provides central support and expertise for this technology, either

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