WAO 2001 a personal view Simon Baird WAO

WAO 2001 - a personal view Simon Baird

WAO 2001 • Participation 100 people from over 30 institutions • 40 people actively worked shifts (not too many “bosses”!) • Very definitely - a workshop format • 6 sessions + reserve + summary session in 4 days

Sessions • • What’s required in today’s control room? Tools & Utilities How should Acc. Ops. be organised? How should we monitor beam quality? How should we handle safety? What’s so special about a super-conducting machine? Reserve - organisation & global operation

What’s required in today’s control room? • • Control room ergonomics Logging/monitoring of operations Electronic logbooks Use of beam simulations (training and operations) Operation without operators (ISOLDE) How Heathrow airport is run Automating operator tasks

Sessions • • What’s required in today’s control room? Tools & Utilities How should Acc. Ops. be organised? How should we monitor beam quality? How should we handle safety? What’s so special about a super-conducting machine? Reserve - organisation & global operation

How should Acc. Ops. be organised? • • Can we optimise our approach to operations (PCR)? How are commercial facilities organised? How would we build an operations group from “scratch”? How do we manage stress in a control room?

Sessions • • What’s required in today’s control room? Tools & Utilities How should Acc. Ops. be organised? How should we monitor beam quality? How should we handle safety? What’s so special about a super-conducting machine? Reserve - organisation & global operation

How should we monitor beam quality? • Important factor is that the product we deliver meets the customer’s requirements • How do we define and measure these requirements. • Wide range of criteria for a wide range of accelerators – – Hadron machines Colliders Synchrotron light facilities Linacs

Sessions • • What’s required in today’s control room? Tools & Utilities How should Acc. Ops. be organised? How should we monitor beam quality? How should we handle safety? What’s so special about a super-conducting machine? Reserve - organisation & global operation

How should we handle safety? • • How do we deal with government rules? How safe is safe enough? Practical example (RHIC) CERN & INB regulations

Sessions • • What’s required in today’s control room? Tools & Utilities How should Acc. Ops. be organised? How should we monitor beam quality? How should we handle safety? What’s so special about a super-conducting machine? Reserve - organisation & global operation

What’s so special about a super-conducting machine? • Practical examples from RHIC, FERMILAB & DESY • Who should control the Accelerator cryogenics? • The cryogenic interlocks and magnet protection systems are as complicated as the accelerator itself

Sessions • • What’s required in today’s control room? Tools & Utilities How should Acc. Ops. be organised? How should we monitor beam quality? How should we handle safety? What’s so special about a super-conducting machine? Reserve - organisation & global operation

Reserve session • Back to organisation of operations – Shift work – Control room layout • Global Accelerator operations – One world accelerator with muliple control rooms around the world – No Night shifts!!! – Not practical for everyday operation -Political tool to avoid closing labs! – Maybe useful as a remote control facility for Machine studies

Moving from “beam quantity” to “beam quality” – QUANTITY • maximum Intensity above all else – QUALITY • beam stability in SR sources • mimising losses - radiation & safety • beam brightness • minimising refill times

Control rooms provide many services – – – – Run Accelerator(s) is only one!!!! Operate access systems Running safety systems (machine protection) Running large Cryogenic Plants providing water and electricity services Responding to Fire, medical, flood alarms… Crisis Management during large scale breakdowns

Control rooms provide many services – Stress is an increasing factor – multi-tasking of jobs • everyone mentioned this!!! – aggravated by shift work – How can we combat (minimise) stress? • Tools to do the job • Control room environment • Consultation • shift planning - reduce shift load?

Operation without OP group - DESY – No OP group - 6 “operators”/shift from all groups (100) – 1 week - on shift then 3 weeks - off shift • 60 shifts/year - reduce individual shift load • Many specialists available 24 hours/day 7 days/week in MCR • Improve all groups knowledge of operations and all accelerator systems • Improve inter group communications • Lack of specialised experts to tune machine • Problem of continuity from week to week • Everyone has to be willing….

Operation without OP group - DESY – Probably not practical for PS Complex – We could gain by having some participation from other groups in MCR work • People from other groups spend time on shift in MCR? • Reduce number of permanent shift workers and/or shifts/person • Improve various groups knowledge of operations and of all other accelerator systems • Improve inter group communications • Stop us from getting too “introspective”

Interaction with other control rooms – All face the same problems – We all have a lot to learn from one another • LHC operation - RHIC, DESY, FERMILAB – We can all gain from exchanging ideas - exchanging people • TJNAF - PS already uderway • SL - PS …… we really should • Other labs - PS and/or SL

Conclusion – – – Workshop went very well - Thanks to PS organisers Many contacts between labs created Lots of ideas discussed Exchanging OP personnel with other labs (even SL!!!) Consider a wider participation in Operations inside Division – Proceedings will be published CERN Yellow report + WWW – There will be a follow-up in KEK in 2003