Commissioning ofCC, the new TEXTOR control system and first operating experiences

The old TEXTOR control systems have successfully been updated. The machine control has replaced bytextorCC, a solution based on the software package WinCC produced by Siemens. WinCC, and thereforetextorCC, can be easily integrated with the already available Siemens S5/S7 hardware components. This new system has the advantage that it is based on industrial soft- and hardware components.Therefore, the lifetime of the control system is extended and the maintenance effort is reduced. The installation and commissioning of the new control system was done in parallel to TEXTOR operation. During this time each function was tested and compared with the actual TEXTOR data. All functionality of the former control system was step-by-step replaced. Special attention was given to the visualization, data and error logging. The machine control timing system has been replaced by an in house development in partnership with Siemens. It consists of transmitters and receivers based on PROFIBUS modules and is fully compatible with the pre-existing timing infrastructure. The old programmable function generator (PFG) has been replaced by compact RIO modules, controlled and programmed by Labview. This new PFG system allows to program up to 84 different time dependent signals. In this paper we intent to present a more detailed overview of our, on WinCC-based work, and a first status report on this new control system for TEXTOR.