Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Florian Feldbauer <[email protected]> · Tue, 5 Apr 2016 09:52:51 +0200

Hey all,

I'm working with EPICS now for several years to develop parts of the

Detector Control System for

the PANDA experiment.
For our luminosity detector we need to control a small vacuum system.

I had a look at various talks from EPICS meetings to see, how others are

building their control systems

and I have a question concerning this:

All the systems I have seen are using PLCs to control the valves of the

system.

What is the advantage of a PLC for controlling the valves?
Why not using an EPICS IOC for direct control running on a realtime system?

I never worked on vacuum systems before, and our vacuum workshop here at

Mainz

could not help me with this question.

Many thanks in advance for the help!

  Florian

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System