| Title |
Ongoing Improvements to the Instrumentation and Control System at LANSCE |
| Authors |
- M. Pieck, C.D. Hatch, H.A. Watkins, E.E. Westbrook
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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| Abstract |
Recent upgrades to the Instrumentation and Control System at Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) have significantly improved its maintainability and performance. These changes were the first strategic steps towards a larger vision to standardize the hardware form factors and software methodologies. Upgrade efforts are being prioritized though a risk-based approach and funded at various levels. With a major recapitalization project finished in 2022 and modernization project scheduled to start possibly in 2025, current efforts focus on the continuation of upgrade efforts that started in the former and will be finished in the later time frame. Planning and executing these upgrades are challenging considering that some of the changes are architectural in nature, however, the functionality needs to be preserved while taking advantage of technology progressions. This is compounded by the fact that those upgrades can only be implemented during the annual 4-month outage. This paper will provide an overview of our vision, strategy, challenges, recent accomplishments, as well as future planned activities to transform our 50-year-old control system into a modern state-of-the-art design.
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| Footnotes & References |
LA-UR-23-24389 |
| Funding |
This work was supported by the U.S. DOE through the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). LANL is operated by Triad National Security, LLC, for the NNSA of U.S. DOE - Contract No. 89233218CNA000001 |
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| Conference |
ICALEPCS2023 |
| Series |
International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (19th) |
| Location |
Cape Town, South Africa |
| Date |
09-13 October 2023 |
| Publisher |
JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editorial Board |
Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany); Andy Götz (ESRF, Grenoble, France); Johan Venter (SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa); Karen White (SNS, Oak Ridge, TN, USA); Marie Robichon (ESRF, Grenoble, France); Vivienne Rowland (SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa) |
| Online ISBN |
978-3-95450-238-7 |
| Online ISSN |
2226-0358 |
| Received |
30 September 2023 |
| Revised |
09 October 2023 |
| Accepted |
19 November 2023 |
| Issued/td>
| 03 December 2023 |
| DOI |
doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-WE2BCO03 |
| Pages |
979-985 |
| Copyright |
 Published by JACoW Publishing under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s), the published article's title, publisher, and DOI. |
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