Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Leblanc, Gregory via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Tue, 14 Mar 2023 21:10:51 +0000

How do you use EPICS at your facility?  We aren't using it yet and I am trying to make some design decisions before I get very far down the implementation road.  The thread last week about SCAN issues and the archiver appliance brought some of these to mind.

How many data points do you collect?
How fast do you collect data?
Do you archive every datapoint you collect?  
Do you archive data slower than you collect it?
What are you using to archive data (EPICS Archiver Appliance, CSS, Phoebus, other?)?
How many IOCs do you have, and how do you decide when you need a new IOC vs extending an existing IOC?
What do you use for visualization (CSS, Phoebus, custom solution (based on qtepics?), something else)?

I'm sure I could come up with a dozen more questions about how EPICS is implemented, but maybe another time.
    Greg

P.S. If there's interest in collecting any of this data I could put together a survey and make the data available (Ohio has some decent survey data collection tools).

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Gregory Leblanc
Accelerator Engineer
Edwards Accelerator Lab - Ohio University
123 University Terrace
Athens, OH 45701 USA
leblanc at ohio.edu
M: (401) 52-OUAL1 or (401) 526-8251

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System