AT Control Forum First Meeting

Introduction  The AT Controls FORUM :  Is responsible for coordination of the overall strategy for controls activities in the AT Department.  It provides a forum for discussion of controls issues between equipment groups and the AB Control group.  It is the alter ego of the AB Control Coordination COmmitee (CO 3 )  It reports regularly to the MARIC and to AB-CO Group Leader.  It can make recommendations for decision by the MARIC and AB-CO GL

SCOPE  The scope of responsibility includes :  Control activities within the AT Department for the LHC, the injectors and the test facilities. Note : A particular attention should be given initially to the Hardware Commissioning Issues.

Covered Topics  Identify current and future activities in the AT Department which will involve significant controls effort in AB-CO.  Identify resource both in AT groups & AB-CO for new projects including controls.  PS renovation, SM18 evolution  Coordinate the controls part of these activities to maximize effectiveness and avoid conflicts due to deployment of new hardware, software or tools.  Conflict hardware commissioning /usual shutdown activities  Promote the control solutions developed by AB-CO for the AT activities to avoid the multiplication of concurrent solutions and development efforts.  LSA, FESA, UNICOS, LabVIEW...  PLC, VME, Industrial PC,...  Identify new control requirements relatives to specific AT activities.  Identify the major priorities in the services requested from the CO group, and verify that CO can deliver what is required.

Meetings & Membership  Chairman :  Philippe Gayet AB-CO-IS  Co- Chairman :  Louis Walckiers AT-MTM  Secretary :  Hubert Reymond AB-CO-MA  Representatives from each of the following groups of the AT Department (from the controls section when possible):  ACR, Juan Casas  ECR, Marco Pezzetti  MCS, Remo Maccaferri  MEL, Reiner Denz  MTM, Louis Walckiers  VAC, Isabelle Laugier  Representatives of the AB-CO group to cover the different control technologies involved according to the topic covered by the meeting  Database Management, Front End, Industrial Systems, Measurements & Analysis, Controls Infrastructure, Machine Interlocks, Applications, Hardware & Timing.  Meetings  One meeting per month in 2007 this frequency will be reviewed after six month.

First Actions  Review of existing activities.  Evaluate the involved resource both in AB-CO and AT  Review the present responsibility sharing and propose a rational evolution  Establish the workload planning and resource evolution for the next 2 years (Early LHC Commissioning)  Estimate the hardware budget under CO responsibility  Upcoming projects  Establish a list group by group  Validate the technological choice and responsibility sharing  Establish a planning and estimate the required resource and hardware budget

Known Existing & Coming activities  MEL  Quench protection system  FESA application in Gateway (IS, FE)  FIP installation (FE)  PVSS support, (IS)  hardware commissioning (IS, AP)  DB support (DM)  Logging (DM)  Post mortem (MA)  Interconnection to machine interlock (MI)  MTM  Bloc 4  PLC support (IS)  PCVUE support (IS)  Renovation (PLC UNICOS & PVSS)  Fast acquisition system (MA)  Test bench  PLC support (IS)  PCVUE support (IS)  DB support (DM)  Fast acquisition (MA)  New sm18 magnet rescue Factory  Fast acquisition (MA)  dB storage (DM)  Renovation of magnet system in PS complex  MCS  test facilities

Known Existing & Coming Projects  ACR  Refrigerator controls  PLC UNICOS, (IS)  PVSS (IS)  sector controls  PLC UNICOS, (IS) (ACR-IN)  PVSS (IS)  Fesa application in Gateway (IS, FE)FIP,  DB support (DM)  Logging (DM)  New  renovation ABB SM18  Cryogenics for NEW SM18  ECR  Support Refrigerator and proximity cryogenics  PLC UNICOS, (IS)  PVSS (IS)  Logging (DM)  New project  NA 48 Control  Revamping using UNICOS (IS)  VAC  PLC support (IS)  PVSS (IS)  Vacuum Control for PS (FE)  Logging (DM)

Brief Overview of AB CO