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It's a good document to read and understand because it clarifies what ECS will do in the HE and MEC-U project, and also in general.

Alex Wallace 

ATEF Development

Ken Lauer Zachary L Lentz Alex Wallace 

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The NewALarMSystem, developed by the TID CDS Advanced Controls group, is designed for the availability, integrability, and extensibility of the alarm systems at SLAC. 
The installation of the NALMS will start from the FEE in the coming weeks. Future updates will be posted as comments on the Jira ticket.

The campaign planned to focus on the GMD and the Facility Monitoring System to start. Essentially ECS will be scope of the campaign is working to capture and implement alarm thresholds, and hierarchical summaries of alarm states throughout the control systems, using NALMS.

What does this mean?  For example, if there is an error with an encoder readback, and it will prevent motion of a diagnostic element, that error will be flagged in EPICS as an alarm, and that alarm could be propagated to a very high-level summary display for operators to understand and trace. So at any given time an operator could see for a given area (like the FEE), if there are ANY issues with mechatronics, and then which component has an issue, and then which sub-component has an issue.

This will not only make our operations more robust as issues can be discovered earlier, but also pave the way for us to obtain real metrics on device reliability and availability.

Experiment State Tracker

Zachary L Lentz Michael Browne 

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Victor S. Elmir Omar Quijano 

QRIX

Margaret Ghaly

We have been busy with testing, checkouts and install of QRIX endstation Controls. The schedule has been pulled forward with tasks that needs to be completed/ready in preparation for Toyama's visit to install and checkout the spectometer spectrometer arm.

All the in-vacuum stages have been functionally tested prior to installation.

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