ICALEPCS2013 - List of Authors (Fortescue-Beck, E.)

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Quality Management of CERN Vacuum Controls

608

F. Antoniotti, J-P. Boivin, E. Fortescue-Beck, J. Gama, P. Gomes, P. Le Roux, H.F. Pereira, G. Pigny
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The vacuum controls team is in charge of the monitoring, maintenance & consolidation of the control systems of all accelerators and detectors in CERN; this represents 6 000 instruments distributed along 128 km of vacuum chambers, often of heterogeneous architectures. In order to improve the efficiency of the services we provide, to vacuum experts and to accelerator operators, a Quality Management Plan is being put into place. The first step was the gathering of old documents and the centralisation of information concerning architectures, procedures, equipment and settings. It was followed by the standardisation of the naming convention across different accelerators. The traceability of problems, request, repairs, and other actions, has also been put into place. It goes together with the effort on identification of each individual device by a coded label, and its registration in a central database. We are also working on ways to record, retrieve, process, and display the information across several linked repositories; then, the quality and efficiency of our services can only improve, and the corresponding performance indicators will be available.

Poster TUPPC027 [98.542 MB]

THPPC057

Validation of the Data Consolidation in Layout Database for the LHC Tunnel Cryogenics Controls Package

1197

A. Tovar, C. Balle, E.B. Blanco Vinuela, C. Fluder, E. Fortescue-Beck, P. Gomes, V. Inglese, M. Pezzetti
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The control system of the Large Hadron Collider cryogenics manages over 34,000 instrumentation channels which are essential for populating the software of the PLCs (Programmable Logic Controller) and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) responsible for maintaining the LHC at the appropriate operating conditions. The control system specification's are generated by the CERN UNICOS (Unified Industrial Control System) framework using a set of information of database views extracted from the LHC layout database. The LHC layout database is part of the CERN database managing centralized and integrated data, documenting the whole CERN infrastructures (Accelerator complex) by modeling their topographical organization (“layouts”), and defining their components (functional positions) and the relationships between them. This paper describes the methodology of the data validation process, including the development of different software tools used to update the database from original values to manually adjusted values after three years of machine operation, as well as the update of the data to accommodate the upgrade of the UNICOS Continuous Process Control package(CPC).

Paper	Title	Page
TUPPC027	Quality Management of CERN Vacuum Controls	608
	F. Antoniotti, J-P. Boivin, E. Fortescue-Beck, J. Gama, P. Gomes, P. Le Roux, H.F. Pereira, G. Pigny CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The vacuum controls team is in charge of the monitoring, maintenance & consolidation of the control systems of all accelerators and detectors in CERN; this represents 6 000 instruments distributed along 128 km of vacuum chambers, often of heterogeneous architectures. In order to improve the efficiency of the services we provide, to vacuum experts and to accelerator operators, a Quality Management Plan is being put into place. The first step was the gathering of old documents and the centralisation of information concerning architectures, procedures, equipment and settings. It was followed by the standardisation of the naming convention across different accelerators. The traceability of problems, request, repairs, and other actions, has also been put into place. It goes together with the effort on identification of each individual device by a coded label, and its registration in a central database. We are also working on ways to record, retrieve, process, and display the information across several linked repositories; then, the quality and efficiency of our services can only improve, and the corresponding performance indicators will be available.
	Poster TUPPC027 [98.542 MB]

THPPC057	Validation of the Data Consolidation in Layout Database for the LHC Tunnel Cryogenics Controls Package	1197
	A. Tovar, C. Balle, E.B. Blanco Vinuela, C. Fluder, E. Fortescue-Beck, P. Gomes, V. Inglese, M. Pezzetti CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The control system of the Large Hadron Collider cryogenics manages over 34,000 instrumentation channels which are essential for populating the software of the PLCs (Programmable Logic Controller) and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) responsible for maintaining the LHC at the appropriate operating conditions. The control system specification's are generated by the CERN UNICOS (Unified Industrial Control System) framework using a set of information of database views extracted from the LHC layout database. The LHC layout database is part of the CERN database managing centralized and integrated data, documenting the whole CERN infrastructures (Accelerator complex) by modeling their topographical organization (“layouts”), and defining their components (functional positions) and the relationships between them. This paper describes the methodology of the data validation process, including the development of different software tools used to update the database from original values to manually adjusted values after three years of machine operation, as well as the update of the data to accommodate the upgrade of the UNICOS Continuous Process Control package(CPC).