Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"David Dudley" <[email protected]> · Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:03:23 -0500

I have been asked (or rather 'told') to see if I can come up with a list
of organizations that use EPICS (or a derivative thereof) in an
industrial environment.

Specifically, I'm trying to find out of any other Water, Wastewater, or
Gas (or pipeline) organizations use EPICS, but other industrial
organizations would be helpful as I try to work the City toward adoption
of EPICS as a quick, easy to deploy, control system.

So far, I have 7 remote sites that have EPICS deployed on them, and
success to this point has been outstanding.

Problem is, administration does not see any "support" organization for
the product (I apologize for their short-sighted idiocy) , nor do they
see an "installed base" of other organizations they can point to and say
"...well..., they use it also, so it must be good...".

No matter how hard I push on this, they can't see anything past what
their "professional engineers" say, and those guys are so stupid and
stubborn, they wouldn't see a good thing, even if it had a million
dollar check glued to it.

David

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System