Re: EPICS training information

[Jiro Fujita <jiro.fujita@gmail.com>]

Hi Mohamed, 

This is bit late conversation on this topic, but still not too late on it…  

One of the topics that came up during the last EPICS collaboration meeting a little over a week ago was documentations.  I happened to have some really basic tutorials written for our undergraduate research students learning the controls, so I sort of volunteered the availability of my tutorials.  I spent a bit of time for consolidating some of the materials I have here: 

https://physicsweb.creighton.edu/jiro/epics/tutorial/

I do not claim all of that as my original; some came from somebody else’s tutorial that once existed on the web.  I have made some changes to fit my own need, too.  But it may help get you started with EPICS, particularly if you have never used EPICS what so ever.   As it is, I have nothing for you to try with PLC, but my tutorials may be helpful for you.  I plan to add few more things on the URL above as time goes (some of the tutorials I have needs to be updated or cleaned up before I make them public).  

Cheers, 

Jiro

> On Oct 13, 2017, at 4:32 AM, Mohamed Chaouechi <chaouechimed92@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear EPICS Tech-Talk,
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> We currently doing a research about EPICS, how to communicate with EPICS, EPICS topologies, and EPICS implementation in PLC IOC based systems.
> As we are a group of students, and we are basically Electrical and Automation Engineers, the EPICS field is new for us, we have little knowledge about it.
> We've tried to read through the website, still have few difficulties to go deeper in the content.
> Our questions here are :
> -How does 'EPICS' create a control system (the definition says so , "EPICS provides a number of tools for creating a control system"), meanwhile, another important part of another definition says "PS: When installing EPICS, does not create a control system"!
> -Do we , as Automation Engineering students , need to learn the algorithm and the programming procedure if we will be maybe implementing EPICS with automated systems ? 
> -EPICS is about collaboration between People, Labs, sites, is it mandatory or it can be used for educational individual use, if yes, what is the hardware needed for that.
> -What are the software needed basically to use EPICS, as we will be using software like S7PLC or EtherCAT ? 
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> We appreciate having an answer soon as we are unfortunately under a time DDL.
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> Best Regards 
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