Industrial Controls

Content

• Mandate
• Technologies
• Team Members
• Alumni

Mandate

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

Team Members

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

Alumni

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