Industrial Controls

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The CCS Industrial Controls Systems team designs, develops, commissions, maintains and supports PLC based applications (hardware, software, fieldbuses, HMI and SCADA) for the controls, interlocking and monitoring of power converters and static var compensators. It is responsible for the following systems:

  • PowPLC PLC software to control more than 600 commercial power converters in Isolde, AD and LEIR.
  • Control and Interlock Systems of the PS, PSB and SPS main power converter. 
  • Control and Interlock Systems of the SVCs of PSB, SPS and LHC. 
  • Control and monitoring of the Circuit Disconnector Boxes of the inner triplet circuits of the HL-LHC.

Technologies

  • Siemens PLCs:
    • S7-300, S7-400, S7-1500
    • Simatic Touch Panels
    • Simatic Automation Manager (Step7) and TIAPortal
  • UNICOS framework
  • WinCC OA SCADA
  • Fieldbuses and industrial networks: Profibus, Profinet, Modbus, CAN, IEC104
  • Functional safety
  • Continuous Integration and Automatic Functional Testing
    • Gitlab CI
    • Python
    • S7-PLCSIM Advanced
  • Jira and kanban boards for agile development

 

mini-cis

Prototype and simulator of the SPS mains control and interlock system

popsb-hmi

WinCC OA HMI of POPSB (main power converters of PSB)

Team Members

Current members of the CCS Industrial Controls Team, ordered by start date.

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Jose Manuel de Paco Soto
From Spain
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Team Leader
Automation Engineer
at CERN since 20XX-XX
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Marcos Marin
From Spain
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Automation Engineer
at CERN since 2021-08
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Walter Niinimaeki
From Finland
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Automation Engineer
at CERN since 2023-02

Alumni

Former members of the CCS Industrial Controls Team, ordered by end date.

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David Carvalho
From Portugal
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Control Software Engineer
at CERN from 2019-03 to 2024-02
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Liam Luigi Cantu
From the United Kingdom
Dual citizenship: Italy
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Mechatronic Engineer
at EPC-CCS from 2023-04 to 2023-07
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Silvie Nemcova
From Czech Republic

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Computer Security Master Student
at CERN from 2022-03 to 2022-11
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Maria del Mar Gomez-Jordana
From Spain
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Embedded Systems Master Student
at CERN from 2021-03 to 2022-04
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Fernando Jusdado
From Spain
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Automation Engineer
at EPC-CCS from 2018-06 to 2021-05
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Michal Dudek
From Poland

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Project Manager
Site Reliability Engineer
Software Engineer
at CERN from 2010-02 to 2018-07