György Vashegyi

In the nearly 30-year period beginning in the early 1970s, internationally outstanding developments and results were achieved in computer technology and industrial process control, which brought extraordinary benefits to the economy - both in the areas of domestic consumption and export.

György Vashegyi is an outstanding leader and manager of these developments, and for several decades he was the head of the Industrial Applications Department of the Central Physics Research Institute (KFKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Between 1980 and 1984 he was the deputy scientific director of the Measurement and Computing Research Institute (MSZKI). He is responsible for numerous Hungarian and foreign industrial automation projects. He is also responsible for the development of software tools and application-specific programs specifically developed for TPA-based computers for the six blocks of the Dunamenti Thermal Power Plant and the four blocks of the Tiszai Power Plant, which operated successfully until the early 1990s.

The result of the largest domestic development of the 1980s was the computer automated system of units 3 and 4 of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant (PAV), which was implemented under the direction of the Industrial Applications Department led by it with the involvement of several research institutes and companies. The uniquely developed Training Simulation System was also considered outstanding in international terms, with the help of which the operating personnel of the nuclear power plant could practice the necessary control tasks while the nuclear power plant operated smoothly. Another major task of the 1980s was the appearance of electrical network monitoring and control SCADA systems developed on a domestic device base, taking into account the technical conditions of the time, for regional electricity suppliers - the first of which was the Northern Hungarian Electricity Supply Company (ÉMÁSZ). This represented a major development in the management of electrical networks, but numerous developments in other industries (oil and automotive industry: Dunai Kőolajipari Vállalat, Adria Kőolajiveték GOV, Silicate Industry Central Research and Design Institute, Káma Automobile Plant (Kamaz)) are also associated with his name.

In 1988, he received a (shared) State Award for the establishment of the information computer systems of Units III and IV of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant with the participation of domestic industry.