Case Study: CERN improves PLC version control and data availability with AUVESY-MDT versiondog

CERN - Customer Case Study

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, needed a better way to back up, monitor, and standardize the control software used across the Large Hadron Collider and its many auxiliary systems. With hundreds of PLCs and HMIs spread across multiple teams, the organization wanted centralized data storage, clearer version control, and reliable documentation for frequent changes. AUVESY-MDT’s versiondog was selected to manage these industrial control system programs.

AUVESY-MDT implemented versiondog to create a central repository for project data, automate backups, compare online and offline versions, and provide audit-ready documentation. The system now safeguards around 500 components at CERN, with plans to expand to about 1,500, and has helped reduce program-modification errors to a minimum while improving quality, visibility, and standardization across teams. CERN also reports that changes are easier to track and recover, and that discrepancies are now flagged automatically by email.

CERN

Jerónimo Ortolá Vidal

Automation Engineer at the Industrial Controls and Safety systems Group of the Beams Department