1. Technical Support Activities in PH-ADO-PO
Summary of 2015 activities
Plan for the coming months

2. Manpower assigned to the Technical Support (2015)
Supervision/operations
Michel Raymond (≈ 20%)
Mechanics
Gevorg Akhperjanyan (30%)
Christian Leboube
Louis Rose-Dulcina
Armen Yandyan +
Alain Bode (PH/DT)
(≈ 15% to 80%)
Electro-technics
Joel Davies
Frédéric Rosset
Charles Scalisi
Cédric Sordé
Logistics
Francisco Limia-Conde (30%)
7 persons full time
3 persons part time
(≈ 0.8 FTE)
Resources used on Technical Support are about 8 FTE
(5.5 persons full time since beg. 2015)

3. Summary of activities on 2015
After LS1, 2015 was foreseen to be a transition period.
Before on going studies and design for new projects are ready for manufacturing, Technical Support has less high priorities projects than in the past years Good opportunity to make progress in “lower priority” tasks
Upgrade of the movement system
New movement machine (2nd one, for side C)
Traction test bench
Support to Infrastructure and Safety
Re-arrangement of B180, tent 609
Sniffer maintenance
Rack cooling
BB5 preparation for nSW chambers
Support to various sub-systems
Machining of accurate parts for AFP (with participation of R. Brendlen PH/DT)
Fabrication of lifting beams for Tile module
Consolidation work “post LS1” on opening/closing process
Scaffolding inventory

4. Storage organization : B180
Activity supervised by Raphael, performed by TC technical team + EN/HE
B180 in fall 2014
B180 in June 2015

5. Storage organization : B609
Shelves installation done during LS1 under Philippe’s supervision.
From beginning of the 2015, a huge effort has been done to sort equipment and pallets, to organize the storage and keep the DB up to date
Effort has started on August to sort and clean up the left side.
Work supervised by Didier in collaboration with EN/HE

6. Hydraulic development
AMM for side C
Assembly of components : done
Switchboard integration and cabling : done
Commissioning and tuning : in progress
Test bench
Operational since August 18th
Load capacity up to 225 tons
Preliminary test performed on friction pads (110 tons)
Study to be continued on two axis : assessment of friction pads + Airpads optimization

7. Distribution of 2015 activities
Plot is based on identified time
 94% of weekly action list
 65% of full calendar time

8. Goals for the next 6 months (2015-2016)
From now to end of November 2015 :
A few fabrications
Support frames from JFC platform
Modification of the 2nd JD lifting frame
Installation of USA15 shielding must be prepared
2nd Atlas Movement Machine (AMM) must be completed
Machine : commissioning on going
Truck piping : on going
Re-arrangement of the tent 609 should be completed
Test bench for movement system (B180) must be used
To choose which movement system for nSW
To optimize air pads
Preparation of Yearly Technical Stop (YETS)
Preparation of B180 clean room for sTGC

9. Goals for the next 6 months (2015-2016)
Yearly Technical Stop (YETS) : from Dec. 14th to March 4th
Opening of Barrel area : not yet decided, depends on request from Systems
USA15 shielding installation (mechanics)
Filling with water : only if possible without risk
Sniffer maintenance (all ATLAS : 15/01 to end Feb.)
Later on (starting in 2016)
Support to JD fabrication and equipment
JD+SW lifting and transport frame
Mock-up for ITK
Tooling for BMG
Prototyping,…

10. Work organization during opening
A schedule has been prepared in case of opening during Winter technical stop.
Baseline of work is 5 days/week,
Monday to Friday, 2 teams working in staggered hours in order to cover 15.5 hours/day
5:00 to 13:00 and 12:30 to 20:30  on 1st week of opening only
Monday to Friday, 2 teams working in normal hours in parallel on both sides
8:30 to 12:30 and 13:30 to 17:30  for about 2 weeks
Work on Saturday is exceptional and on a normal hours basis.
Extra hours will be required… be prepared !
Work start on Dec. 14th and goes until Dec. 24th included : this is the worst scenario in case long access is needed to detectors.
Using the 2 AMMs in parallel limits the interest of staggered hours, but the usual rigorous organization will be kept.
A very good coordination with RSO and RPE is needed, the RPE should be looked at as being fully part of the team so that they know when their intervention is required.
Safety shifts will be organized too
Good communication is also required. A web page summarizes the main information
Daily meeting is organized where activities are checked and discussed

11. Time schedule for opening option
3 weeks for opening
4 weeks maxi on calorimeters
4 weeks for closing and detector positioning

12. LHC schedule 2015

13. LHC schedule beyond LS1