Our Strengths
Osprey’s reputation is built upon our ability to consistently deliver on-time, on-budget results for challenging projects. We provide:
- Engineering expertise from inception to commissioning.
- Solutions expertise from signals to high-level applications.
Our Capabilities
Osprey has over 30 years of experience in the accelerator community. We provide support for all aspects of accelerator control: project planning to support critical design; preliminary design; construction & integration; and commissioning. We work with physicists and engineers to develop specifications with consideration of facility goals and available solutions throughout the community.
Osprey has over 30 years of beamline control experience. We provide support for all aspects of beamline control: project planning to support critical design; preliminary design; construction & integration; and commissioning. We work with Scientists and Engineers to develop specifications with consideration of experimental goals and available solutions throughout the community for synchronized motion and data acquisition.
Our team has successfully designed and delivered applications for Fast Orbit Feedback, Fast Machine Protection, online Model development and applications that support accelerator characterization and commissioning.
We have been active in the design and development of EPICS from its inception over 30 years ago. Our staff continue to provide technical leadership along with key developers throughout the community in EPICS core and the Micro Services that have been developed in EPICS 7.
Osprey provides project engineering, specification, hardware selection, rack and stack, programming and installation for subsystems where appropriate such as vacuum, facility, magnet power supply, cryogenic and water cooling and pulsed power. Our PLC expertise is primarily in a scientific environment with some industrial experience.
We have delivered turnkey systems from instrumentation through data viewing and management for DAQ at LCLS I, LCLS II at SLAC and MPEX at ORNL. These systems require design and implementation from the analog and digital front ends through the FPGA and optimized drivers that collect the data to disk and provide configuration and synchronized data viewing through EPICS.
Osprey has provided service to review, design, manufacture, implement, install and commission high-performance systems including Timing, Fast Machine Protection, and Fast Orbit Feedback. Our skills include analog front-end design, FPGA programming, drivers to integrate high performance systems and applications to manage timing, limits, and fault data
Osprey has supported the review and design of grounding issues in pulsed power and high magnetic field environment. Our lead engineer, Mike Thuot, has provided valuable advice and design support at many facilities including the Spallation Neutron Source and Material Plasma Experiments, ZAP Fusion Energy and high-performance data acquisition environments.
We have been engaged in the development of the Control System Studio framework, tools, and related middle layer services. We provide training of the installation and use of the Phoebus environment and support the continued improvements required in Phoebus to expand capabilities and integrate new services with general and custom widgets. Please contact us if you want to explore Phoebus and the middle layer services that provide an integrated operator environment.
Our Approach
We believe the most important part of a project occurs before the project begins: the conceptual design phase.
We invest considerable time thinking through the project with you, so together, we make the most efficient and effective use of resources.
Need help designing your next project? Give us a call and we’ll do the thinking with you.
