Cosylab is the leading provider of software solutions for the world’s most complex, precise and advanced systems. Our technology enables organizations to discover scientific breakthroughs, offer state-of-the-art cancer treatment and healthcare innovations, and bring clean fusion power to the future energy market.
We have contributed our solutions in the scientific, medical and industrial sectors, working on complex, distributed and highly-regulated projects. Our solutions are integrated into the most significant big science projects, such as ITER, CERN, FAIR, ALMA, SLAC, CTA and ELT.
Observatory Sciences is an independent company whose consultants provide services and solutions to technical and scientific clients. We specialise in providing software systems for the control of large scientific facilities such as accelerators and astronomical telescopes. We provide solutions based on the latest technologies using skills derived from extensive experience in the design, commissioning and operation of major scientific facilities. We offer clients the benefits of our considerable depth and breadth of expertise in the design, development, management and successful delivery of these software projects.’
IOxOS Technologies, founded in 2007 in Gland (Switzerland), is an electronic design company offering innovative solutions to system integrators in the High Energy Physics, Mil/Aero and Transport industries. It combines its hardware design expertise with engineering, consulting and training services covering both hardware and software with the aim of fulfilling the customer requirements from the initial specification to the final implementation, validation, verification and system integration.
Beckhoff implements open automation systems using proven PC-based control technology. The main areas that the product range covers are industrial PCs, I/O and fieldbus components, drive technology, automation software as well as control cabinet-free automation. Product ranges that can be used as separate components or integrated into a complete and mutually compatible control system are available for all sectors. Our New Automation Technology stands for universal and industry-independent control and automation solutions that are used worldwide in a large variety of different applications.
D-TACQ’s core business is “High Performance Simultaneous Data Acquisition”. D-TACQ designs, manufactures and supports a range of innovative “Data Acquisition Appliances”, turnkey systems with from 4 to 192 simultaneous IO channels in a convenient compact enclosure. A range of over 12 front end modules enable precision ADC, DAC and DIO. We support a high degree of customization to user requirement, with recent focus on a wide variety of DIO functions – pulse generation, optical drivers, high speed pulse counting, TDC and AquadB encoder inputs. The units include network connectivity, embedded EPICS IOC and an embedded White Rabbit endpoint option for precision timing
RadiaSoft offers expert consulting services and cutting-edge software solutions across many specialties in accelerator physics and control systems. Our staff have expertise in accelerator modeling, Machine Learning-based controls, and algorithm deployment for both slow controls and real-time systems using FPGAs.
RadiaSoft’s online gateway, Sirepo, supports graphical user interfaces for control-room simulations, accelerator modeling, beamline optimization, and Machine Learning applications. Sirepo-Bluesky offers access to the Bluesky library for experimental orchestration, allowing the construction of digital twins and seamless testing of control algorithms. Our mastery of the science and years of experience make us a leader in the field, with clients ranging in size from large national laboratories to small, private companies. We provide customized services and solutions for the biggest challenges facing research and industry today.
iThemba LABS operates the only cyclotron facilities in the African continent and the separated sector cyclotron is the largest accelerator facility in the Southern Hemisphere. The k-200 separated sector cyclotron can accelerate protons to energies of 200MeV, and heavier particles to much higher energies. Smaller accelerators at the Western Cape site are two injector cyclotrons, one providing intense beams of light ions, and the other, beams of polarized light ions or heavy ions; a 3MV Tandetron used mainly for research utilising ion beam analysis techniques; and a k=11 cyclotron for the production of the radioisotope Flourine-18 for supplying to local nuclear medicine facilities for imaging purposes. Accelerators at the Gauteng site include a 6MV tandem accelerator with a specialised high energy analysis system for Atomic Mass Spectrometry (AMS), and two low energy electrostatic accelerators for ion implantation and other surface science studies.
Faraday Motion Controls, Formally Delta Tau UK was formed in February 1998 and is primarily known in the industry for extremely high precision, multi axes, motion control systems. Supplying the worlds high energy physics market with high precision motion control platforms giving scientists and engineers an unprecedented control of XFEL lasers, Synchrotron Light sources, Neutron Spallation and Fusion Laser facilities worldwide allowing them to delve ever deeper into the structures of materials.
The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), a facility of the National Research Foundation, is responsible for managing all radio astronomy initiatives and facilities in South Africa, including the MeerKAT Radio Telescope in the Karoo, and the Geodesy and VLBI activities at the HartRAO facility. SARAO also coordinates the African Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network (AVN) for the eight SKA partner countries in Africa, as well as South Africa’s contribution to the infrastructure and engineering planning for the Square Kilometre Array Radio Telescope. To maximise the return on South Africa’s investment in radio astronomy, SARAO is managing programmes to create capacity in radio astronomy science and engineering research, and the technical capacity required to support site operations.
Website: www.sarao.ac.za
