1. W-Ie-Ne-R Visit to Wiener 10 th February 2003 –Primary aim: to finalise acceptance of VME64x prototypes. –Additionally: To establish whether Wiener is still interested in supplying rad-tol power supplies.

2. Company Profile –Registered capital: 80,000 CHF –Annual turnover (1999): 6,000,000 CHF –Employees (1999): 32 –Long history with CERN: NIM, CAMAC, FASTBUS, VME, …

3. Company Profile Market: –Principally (97%) research labs CERN, DESY.. –Military (US radar project) Production: –645 VME sub-racks produced in 12 months prior to MS

4. Company Profile Premises: Two floor building Meeting room R&D lab (Electronics) Production Workshop (PSs, sub-racks) Storage (~size of EP Pool storage) Machine shop (Mechanics) Solder bath machine

5. Company Profile People: –My estimate from visit: ~20 people on site –Some people who worked at Wiener, have set up shop for themselves and Wiener outsource to them. –Electronic design engineer: Andreas Koster –Mechanical engineer: Herr ….?

6. PL500/UX-PS Our question to Wiener: –Are you interested in producing a prototype PS to our specification (I.e. no control by MCU), with a view to a follow-up series production. Wiener’s response: –Yes.

7. PL500/UX-PS Caveat: Essentially one design engineer. Top priority: CE certification from “Tuv” (Ethernet interface - for Accelerator) Other projects?

8. PL500/UX-PS Timing: –I doubt that they can work seriously on the redesign of the MCU board before March. –Magnetic shielding work could start almost immediately. –Specification (Bruno Allongue) -next week.