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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 place, is planning to introduce equipment life-cycle management to assess and where possible minimize risks related to the way electric and electronic equipment is procured and at the same time to efficiently maintain what has been already installed.
First steps have been taken to catalogue all equipment installed across the facility with the aim of defining policies to limit or replace singleton installations, if and where possible.
Contacts to other facilities in the world, and within groups in the facility, have been started to assess how these have addressed such issues, what tools are used or what aspects need be taken care of.
We started discussions with vendors in order to evaluate and improve our situation, removing single vendor dependence and possibly to influence them into providing new, interchangeable and innovative solutions.
