Author: Petit, S.
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THPEA042 TREC: Traceability of Radioactive Equipment at CERN 3234
 
  • M.P. Kepinski, L. Bruno, Ch. Delamare, S. Mallon Amerigo, P. Martel, S. Petit, T. Schmittler, M.J.S. Tavlet, D. Widegren
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  Ac­ti­vated ac­cel­er­a­tor com­po­nents are fre­quently re­moved from ser­vice due to changes in de­sign, con­fig­u­ra­tion or main­te­nance work. Safe and ef­fec­tive man­age­ment of such com­po­nents is a ne­ces­sity. More­over, local au­thor­i­ties re­quire the track­ing of this equip­ment: any piece of equip­ment or waste which has been in a po­ten­tially ra­dioac­tive area must be con­trolled by a radio pro­tec­tion re­spon­si­ble be­fore leav­ing the ac­cel­er­a­tor premises. CERN must also be able to prove that the re­quired mea­sure­ments have been done and are prop­erly stored in a com­put­er­ized sys­tem. TREC is the of­fi­cial sys­tem used at CERN to trace po­ten­tially ra­dioac­tive equip­ment. It re­places paper work by elec­tronic data, man­ual phone calls by au­to­matic email no­ti­fi­ca­tions and helps to en­force CERN safety rules. Some of the major ben­e­fits are the re­duc­tion of the de­lays re­lated to equip­ment move­ments (from in­stal­la­tion to work­shops or waste stor­age areas) as well as in­creased per­sonal safety. The sys­tem is fully in­te­grated with the CMMS* tools used at CERN to en­sure the com­plete equip­ment life­cy­cle’s trace­abil­ity.
*CMMS: Computerized Maintenance Management System 		 
 
THPEA043 An Equipment Hub for Managing a Small Town and a Complex Machine 3237
 
  • P. Martel, A. Alexandre Metola, Ch. Delamare, M.P. Kepinski, S. Mallon Amerigo, L. Pater, S. Petit, D. Widegren
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  
  Ef­fec­tive main­te­nance of the ac­cel­er­a­tors’ com­plex is vital for CERN’s mis­sion. While this work is highly de­pen­dent on op­er­a­tional plan­ning and con­straints, it also needs to be co­or­di­nated with the main­te­nance of the in­fra­struc­ture where the com­plex is em­bed­ded. The na­ture and de­gree of the lo­gis­tics prob­lems that arise from this in­ter­de­pen­dence can­not be han­dled by par­tial, de­cou­pled so­lu­tions from each of the stake­hold­ers. CERN’s En­ter­prise Asset Man­age­ment sys­tem is the cen­tral hub where all rel­e­vant data about equip­ment and its main­te­nance is kept. It is also where data and doc­u­ments about the man­u­fac­tur­ing, in­stal­la­tion, safety in­spec­tion, ra­di­a­tion mea­sure­ments, dis­posal, etc. of the sci­en­tific equip­ment re­side. This hub al­lows the ef­fec­tive shar­ing of con­sis­tent equip­ment data, ac­cessed by a large num­ber of peo­ple and sys­tems, and sup­plies a wide range of in­ter­faces – rang­ing from the user in the field with no ac­cess to a desk­top com­puter, to sched­ul­ing sys­tems that need to in­ter­act with it through Web ser­vices; this is achieved by means of a se­ries of sys­tems, tools and mech­a­nisms, all ded­i­cated to dif­fer­ent needs but work­ing on the same data and shar­ing com­mon poli­cies.