Re: EPICS in Industrial setting

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi David,

On Thursday 21 August 2008 09:03:23 David Dudley wrote:
> 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.

I'm not sure if this will help or not because the list is ancient and I don't 
have any details on any of these, but maybe someone else in the collaboration 
knows more and can them fill in: The Projects page on the EPICS website lists 
the following commercial/industrial projects that are (were?) supposedly 
using EPICS, although they may have been the Kinetic Systems/Tate/Hathaway 
versions.  I think this list came from Steve Lewis, but my memory may of that 
be faulty:

    * The High Power Laser Experiment (Boeing)
    * Wafer Fabrication Plant (AMD)
    * Liquefied Nature Gas Plant (Baltimore G&E)
    * Tunnel Fire Ventilation Test Program (DOT/Bechtel-Parsons-Brinkerhoff)
    * Flexible Manufacturing Facility (Allied Signal)
    * Wastewater Treatment (Western Lake Superior Sanitary District)
    * Potable Water Distribution (St. Louis County)
    * Compressor Control (Baltimore G&E)
    * GM Fuel Cell Program (LANL)
    * Plant Simulation (Knolls)
    * Flight Simulation (JPL)
    * Fuel Depots (US Navy)
    * Product Storage/Movement Facility (Citgo)
    * Ground Tracking Station (NASA Canberra)
    * Well Head/Extraction (Saphania Oil Field)
    * Superconducting Magnet Test Facility for KSTAR (Samsung Adv. Inst. of 
Tech.) 

Note that if you really want commercial support for EPICS you should be able 
to get it, although in general the companies involved are more used to doing 
project development work on a consultancy basis than providing a support 
contract as such.  I would suggest you approach CosyLab and Observatory 
Sciences about support; see the EPICS Sites page for links.

HTH,

- Andrew
-- 
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