As the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator (AWA) facility expanded, its original in-house control software could not keep up with the increasing complexity and scale of operations. To improve maintainability, reliability, and support future development, the AWA controls group undertook a major upgrade by adopting the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS). With support from the Advanced Photon Source (APS) Controls group, the AWA control system has been successfully upgraded from a centralized, difficult-to-maintain architecture into a flexible, scalable, and maintainable distributed system. This paper presents the current status of AWA's new EPICS-based control system and describes the experiences and lessons learned during the upgrade.

As the “Dark Year” of Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APS-U) concludes, a new logbook is essential to document the process of bringing the facility back online. The Best Electronic Logbook Yet (BELY) has been developed and deployed as a solution to fulfill this requirement. This paper dives into the development process and technologies used to create BELY. Additionally, it will explore the features BELY provides to address all of its operational requirements. One of the significant strengths of BELY is its broad adoption across the APS, driven by its well-organized structure. The widespread use at the APS significantly enhances communication between teams responsible for maintaining the machine, ensuring that information is easily accessible, and collaboration is seamless. Furthermore, the paper discusses various uses of BELY. Finally, it presents ideas for the future development and enhancement of BELY.

As the “Dark Year” of Advanced Photon Source Upgrade (APS-U) concludes, a new logbook is essential to document the process of bringing the facility back online. The Best Electronic Logbook Yet (BELY) has been developed and deployed as a solution to fulfill this requirement. This paper dives into the development process and technologies used to create BELY. Additionally, it will explore the features BELY provides to address all of its operational requirements. One of the significant strengths of BELY is its broad adoption across the APS, driven by its well-organized structure. The widespread use at the APS significantly enhances communication between teams responsible for maintaining the machine, ensuring that information is easily accessible, and collaboration is seamless. Furthermore, the paper discusses various uses of BELY. Finally, it presents ideas for the future development and enhancement of BELY.

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) accelerator employs both MEDM and CSS Phoebus as display managers to support legacy control screens and the new displays introduced during the APS Upgrade project. This dual-system setup presents challenges in the organization, deployment, and maintenance of accelerator control displays. To address these issues, a unified, centralized framework has been developed by APS accelerator for managing the controls screens, regardless of format, purpose, or update frequency. This paper describes the strategies used by APS accelerator controls to organize, deploy, and maintain control displays. It also presents the tools and practices used to manage display managers across the APS accelerator control system.