NEW SPring-8 CONTROL ROOM: TOWARDS UNIFIED OPERATION WITH SACLA AND SPring-8 II ERA

We have renovated the SPring-8 control room. This is its first major renovation since its inauguration in 1997. In 2011, the construction of the SACLA (SPring-8 Angstrom Compact LAser) was completed. Plans are to control it from the new control room for it to work in close cooperation with the SPring-8 storage ring. It was expected that the upcoming SPring-8 II project would require more workstations than the current control room could accommodate. We have therefore extended the control room area for these anticipated requirements. In this renovation, we employed new technologies that did not exist 14 years ago, such as a large LCD and silent, liquid-cooling workstations for a comfortable operation environment. We have incorporated many ideas which were obtained during the 14 years experience of the operation. Operations in the new control room were started in April 2011 after a short period of construction.