UW Medical Center

PLC Test Bench for Continuous Hardware Development

This project developed a reliable, external testbench for the UW Medical Cyclotron Facility (UWMCF). The testbench is meant to serve as a safe environment to test updates for the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) system before pushing them to the main system. The team focused on compiling a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the software and hardware components of the test bench and trained the UWMCF staff on using the testbench environment. By building a separate, independently functioning PLC testbench, where new hardware and software designs can be implemented and tested, plant reliability will be increased and cyclotron downtime will stay minimal.