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| MOPLT026 |
Equipment Manufacturing and Test Data Tracking for the LHC
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- E. Manola-Poggioli, S.-A. Chalard, C. Delamare, T. Ladzinski, S. Mallon-Amerigo, P. Martel, S. Petit, T. Pettersson, O. Rademakers Di Rosa, B. Rousseau, A.S. Suwalska, D. Widegren
CERN, Geneva
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The MTF system was developed at CERN to capture the design, manufacturing and test data of equipment built for LHC. Today, more than 80.000 descriptions of LHC equipment are managed using the MTF. The system handles both production data and non-conformance issues. The acquisition of the equipment data is both an organisational and a technical challenge. On the organisational side many different aspects of production and management have to be taken into account. The LHC equipment suppliers, wherever their production facilities are located, whatever their computer skills or rates of production are, need a user friendly environment to provide the data with a very limited effort on the shop floor. For expensive equipment such as the LHC dipoles a reliable and robust non-conformance methodology must be put in place, the MTF provides the required information technology support tools. The EDMS Service has developed methods, training processes and tools to cope with an extensive use of the system, a use that will grow during the next years until the LHC is installed. This paper presents the experience acquired and the solutions put in place.
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Towards a Unified General Purpose CAD System at CERN
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- T. Hakulinen, C. Andrews, B. Feral, P.-O. Friman, M. Mottier, T. Pettersson, C. Sorensen, E. Van Uytvinck
CERN, Geneva
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Several different CAD systems are in use at CERN today. Most of the 3D design work for the LHC is being done using Euclid from MDTVision. For 2D design work AutoCAD is widely used. Also, various special design tools exist for tasks such as electrical design and schematics. Even though LHC design will be finished with Euclid, it has been clear since several years that a new 3D CAD system will be needed in the future. For this reason CERN carried out a comparison between the currently available 3D CAD software using a set of selection criteria important for CERN. The selected system was CATIA from Dassault together with local data base system SmarTeam. The aim is to use CATIA as a multi-disciplinary general purpose CAD tool which could eventually replace almost all of the other CAD systems at CERN. For this purpose, CATIA and SmarTeam are being integrated with the existing CAD utilities and data base systems developed in-house. Pilot users are using the system for real designs and the digital mock-up features of CATIA are used for integration studies of LHC experiments. The feature list of CATIA and SmarTeam is impressive and experience with the software has so far been almost exclusively positive. This is promising for software with which CERN will likely have to live for the next 20 years or more.
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