Fusion
Fusion and the Industry: Today and Tomorrow
One of the longest-standing jokes in experimental physics has been that affordable fusion energy is just around the corner – with the punchline that...
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Accelerators
EPICS is an Accelerator for Mission-Critical Control Systems
Advancements in industrial automation and computing have allowed the widespread use of control system components and frameworks and the adoption of go...
Big science
How to Build the Perfect Fusion Plant: A Technical Architect’s Perspective
Fusion promises to free humankind from the woes of limited and expensive energy production. The route to practical and affordable fusion powerplants h...
Big science
The ITER Simulation Platform Project is a Success!
Fusion power plants take a long time to be designed and built, and the experimental tokamak of ITER is no exception. The latter will be the world’s ...
Accelerators
A Fast Integration of PLCs and EPICS
Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) have been widely used in industrial control systems for many years now, such as aviation, automotive, processing...
Accelerators
A Checklist for a Modern Control System
In the last decade, control system development for Big Science facilities has become an established engineering discipline and less of a scientific en...
Accelerators
How to Perform a Control Systems Project: The Example of BBCS
As early as 2012, the consulting firm McKinsey&Co determined that "half of all large IT projects massively overblow their budget". This finding, consi...
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