Technical Glossary
A project started in 2000 for the LHC to collaborate on control systems for the LHC experiments. Today, this project is more like a service providing WinCC OA Frameworks and dedicated applications and control systems for LHC electrical rack control, the DSS (see definition) and Gas (distribution) Control Systems for the experiments.
ICS is leading the JCOP project and provides the application and support for the related software.
Project to provide new Alarm and Event screens (lists of events and alerts) integrated in the JCOP Framework and to be used in WinCC OA applications the group is providing
NXCALS is the new logging system based on Hadoop Big Data technologies using cluster computing power for the Data Analysis.
It is the long term data archiving system for all our control/monitoring systems.
An industry standard for communicating with/between devices, servers and clients. This is open and non-patented and is a basis of "industry 4.0". See https://opcfoundation.org/ . Historical versions are OPC-DA (windows only, deprecated) and OPC-UA (unified architecture). The implementations of OPC-UA come as "toolkits" which are also commercially available.
One of the major communication protocols used in WinCC-OA for the experiments
Wincc OA specific
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
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 control systems.
English: Process Visualization and Control