1. Operations StayTreat 2016: Reliability Team Plans
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is managed by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science
Operations StayTreat 2016:
Reliability Team Plans
Andrew Kimber
29th June 2016
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2. Reliability Team
Andrew Kimber (EES Department Head) – Task Force Lead Matt Bickley (Accelerator Operations Deputy) Jonathan Creel (Cryogenics Department Head) Tommy Hiatt (Mechanical Engineering – Magnets) Jerry Kowal (EES - Safety Systems) Randy Michaud (Accelerator Operability) Steve Smith (ESH&Q) Bob Sperlazza (Facilities) Stakeholders Hugh Montgomery (Sponsor) Andrew Hutton (Accelerator Division Head) Will Oren (Engineering Division Head) Arne Freyberger (Director of Accelerator Operations)
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3. Motivation
General system performance (uptime) is not where we need it to be
Large failures (magnets, cryo), lots of smaller failures
As a direct response to the Accelerator Advisory Committee comments and recommendations:
“Higher availability allows more experiments to be executed. The quantitative failure analysis should be more specific, and sophisticated and a clear strategy or plan for preventive maintenance should be presented, otherwise a goal of >90% availability remains unrealistic.”
“Present a clear strategy for achieving the stated goal of 90% availability.”
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High reliability has secondary benefits:
Credibility, securing future work (JLEIC), efficient use of available resources, no 3am calls, morale…
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4. Progress so far.. The team has met 4 times on a weekly basis
Framework:
Brainstormed ‘issues’ with reaching high reliability (70+ and counting), this will continue throughout the process
Binned in to one of six categories:
Equipment and systems
Tools
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Organization (Group level)
Culture
Organization (Accel/Lab level)
Managing expectations
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6. Conclusions (4 weeks in…)
Caveats:
Entries have not been weighted
Still gathering data
Bins might be slightly incorrect
Culture and Organization (Accel/Lab level) are leading the way
These should be fixable! cheaply! although may take time…
Tools and Equipment & Systems come a close second
Organization (Group level) probably needs more thought…
Managing expectations is highest secondary factor as primary factors start to affect how we run the machine and we trade off reliability for other considerations (energy reach, short term runtime, budgets, resource allocation, priorities…)
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7. Overall reliability strategy that the lab/CEBAF can use long term
Future Plans
Continue identifying and categorizing issues
(both broad and specific)
Identify common themes, and hopefully common solutions!
Solve the problem of metrics
What should we measure? How should we measure it?
Compare where we are now to where we are later
Help with FY17 funding efforts to target $$ and
Overall reliability strategy that the lab/CEBAF can use long term
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8. Future Plans StayTreat Presentation Today! (~1 month)
Continue to iterate issues and solutions. Identify roadblocks and common problems. Look at metrics and how we measure success. Strategize for the short, medium and long term.
Presentation – Strategy outline
Early August (~2 months)
Strategy document
October (~4 months)
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