Two CERN openlab fellows sponsored by Siemens and part of the
ICE (Industrial Controls and Electronics) group in the EN
(Engineering) Department at CERN gave presentations for the
first time at the CERN openlab Technical Minor Review Meeting.
The first presentation, by
Filippo Tilaro,
focused on
security standards convergence and relevance in Process Control
Systems (PCS). Filippo presented the reasons, scope and
objectives of the security analysis conducted by the team,
giving at the same time a quick overview of the CERN strategy in
terms of PCS. He continued by presenting a review of existing standards. Filippo
concluded by pointing out the advantages of the ISA-99 standard
compared to the other standards presented, and by referring to
the team's future plans related to security deficiencies.
Omer Khalid presented
the work of the team on the
automated deployment of Siemens software. He started his
presentation with a focus on the Programmable Logic Controllers
(PLC) used at CERN as part of the LHC control equipment, and
gave further details about Step7 IDE (Integrated Development
Environment) used in order to engineer and program solutions to
automation problems. Omer insisted on the key objectives of this
project which are to bring-in modern software engineering
capabilities to Step7 product line and to automate the
deployment of Siemens software (Step7 initially) on groups of
machines. He detailed the approach followed to reach these
objectives. A market survey of the available tools is being
compiled and a survey to gather Step7 deployment experience
was sent to PLC users at CERN. Meetings and brainstorming
sessions with EN-ICE-PLC section are also organised. The
complete results and analysis are expected to be presented to
Siemens by the end of August 2009.
Next CERN openlab Minor Review Meeting will be hold on 16 June
2009.
Mélissa Le Jeune, CERN openlab
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