Conveners
Methods
- Jacobus Conradie (iThemba LABS)
Andrea Apollonio
(CERN)
11/11/2019, 09:00
oral
This talk will highlight the main challenges in terms of reliability, availability and protection for different types of particle accelerators. The talk will stress the importance of performing reliability studies as early as possible in the lifecycle of an accelerator, starting from the conceptual phase to its exploitation and upgrades. A summary of the main lessons learnt at CERN on the use...
Szandra Kovecses
(European Spallation Source ERIC)
11/11/2019, 09:40
oral
When contributions to downtime (unavailability) are evaluated the main system (functions needed to perform the system requirements) and the machine protection system (functions that prevent and mitigate the consequence of a failure) are grouped together. This makes it difficult or impossible to separate how much downtime is caused by the main system and how much is caused by the machine...
