ALICE LHC IF Project: the WinCC OA System

Summary ALICE LHC IF is a control software mainly developed in the SCADA enviroment of the WinCC OA System which provides communication channels between the systems of ALICE and LHC. ALICE is one of the four major experiments dislocated along the LHC and its function is to study heavy-ion physics by analizing the products of the collision of heavy ions that impact against each other at velocities close to the speed of light. The WinCC OA software gives an efficient solution to the problem of managing, visualizing and controlling such amount of data produced by the experiment, improving and facilitating the daily activity of the ALICE LHC IF Project. This Short Report describes the above mentioned concepts reporting also the personal WinCC OA training experience obtained during the 2020 online educational initiative offered by CERN.