Integrating commercial and legacy systems with EPICS

The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) is a software toolkit, developed by a worldwide collaboration, which significantly reduces the level of effort required to implement a new control system. Recent developments now also significantly reduce the level of effort required to integrate commercial, legacy and/or site-authored control systems with EPICS. This paper illustrates with an example both the level and type of effort required to use EPICS with other control system components as well as the benefits that may arise.