MAX IV has been in user service since 2016. Critical equipment for operation of the facility are reaching end-of-life and needs to be repaired or replaced. It has become increasingly clear that MAX IV needs a cohesive strategy, structured plans and defined processes, and a supportive tool for managing assets and maintenance related to the machine and the beamlines.
The talk will cover a brief...
CERN is providing a portfolio of asset and maintenance management applications to allow users to register equipment, aggregate information and data for it and record activities related with the equipment throughout all its lifecycle in a structured way. This presentation shall provide an overview over CERN’s current asset and maintenance application landscape that is based on a commercial...
Transition of ESO’s traditional operation to the integration of the ELT into the La Silla Paranal observatory - ESO
How does ESS manages and control information from Design until Decommission.
Many equipment, controller and controlled entities alike, are chosen and purchased, in scientific facilities, without previous life-cycle assessments. The reality at many facilities shows that even temporary installations are used for 10 to 30 years or even longer.
The European XFEL GmbH facility, in order to strengthen the efficiency of the centralized technical vetting which is already in...
CERN is since many years using a commercial Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) system for managing physical equipment and its maintenance. The managed equipment ranges from components and systems in the accelerator complex to components and systems in the technical infrastructures. The EAM system is presently used by more than 40 CERN groups, covering over 3 million of individual pieces of...
Inventory Management at ESS - ESS
The CERN’s cryogenic group operates and maintains cryogenic systems for accelerators and detectors. In this complex environment, the EAM CMMS provides advanced functionalities to reach the availability requirements of the cryogenic facilities of LHC and Non-LHC installations.
One of the key factors to manage the cryogenics operations and maintain the assets is the access to an integrated...
Engineering design at ESS - ESS
The Cooling & Ventilation Group (EN-CV) at CERN is responsible for the design, installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance of the industrial ventilation, pumping stations, cooling and fluid distribution systems for all accelerator complex and its experimental areas.
For over 30 years, the EN-CV Group, has been using an Enterprise Asset Management System to manage, plan and monitor...
The European Spallation Source is in the finishing stages of the construction, with large portions of the project being either in the commissioning phase or already in the operational one. This new situation also presents us with new challenges, in particular in the work coordination between the installation of components, the commissioning of parts of the Accelerator and Target, and...
The Handling Engineering Group at CERN manages six contracts for the maintenance of lifts, industrial trucks, overhead cranes and road trucks.
In the past the contracts were all managed differently. The heterogeneity in the processes and definitions of events triggering maintenance Work Orders made it difficult to compare them in one single report, generating quite some work to consolidate...
The EN-HE group of CERN operates more than 350 overhead travelling cranes, requiring a regular maintenance defined by CERN Safety Rules (GSI-M-1).An analysis made in 2020 concluded that important savings on preventive maintenance could be done by changing the actual strategy based on a fixed periodicity to a strategy based on the usage of each crane. To be able to implement such change, the...
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory was established in 2021 as an Intergovernmental organisation with a mission to design, build and operate cutting-edge radio telescopes to transform our understanding of the Universe, and deliver benefits to society through global collaboration and innovation.
As we got ready to commence the construction of the telescopes in two remote sites, one of...
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project, with its SKA-Low and SKA-Mid telescopes, presents unique challenges in achieving and maintaining high availability in remote environments in Australia and South Africa. This case study explores the critical role of the Engineering Management System (EMS) in addressing these challenges within the context of the MeerKAT project.
Availability...
Doing right from the start? Challenges in implementing efficient maintenance planning at ESS
Cryogenics systems are critical within the framework of the LHC accelerator and its detectors. Interruption of refrigeration capacity has direct impact on accelerator availability and the acquisition of physics data.
During the second Long Shut down 2, spanning from 2019 to 2020, one key element for reliability enhancement was the application of a robust preventive maintenance and calibration...
