R. Saban et al., EQUIPMENT INDUSTRIALLY CONTROLLED, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 352(1-2), 1994, pp. 461-463
With its chain of accelerators and its large experimental physics dete
ctors, CERN is one of the world's most important research centres for
particle physics. CERN builds and operates a number of classical and a
dvanced technical utilities to serve its research activities. These ut
ilities are generally equipped with industrial control components purc
hased with the equipment itself. This paper describes some of the util
ities and their controls and proposes a strategy for the integration o
f diverse industrial control systems into a coherent industrial enviro
nment of communication and supervision.