1. Accelerator Reliability Information System
Johannes Gutleber
CERN, ATS Directorate Office
16th Oct, 2017/Workshop
A. Apollonio, J. Gutleber, A. Niemi (CERN)
A. Preinerstorfer, H. Humer, T. Gruber, P. Böhm (Austrian Institute of Technology)
K. Höppner (Heidelberg Ion Therapy Facility HIT)
Jussi-Pekka Penttinen (Ramentor & TU Tampere)

2. ARIES H2020 Project Overview
Accelerator Research and Innovation for European Science and Society
Aims
Develop European particle accelerator infrastructures
Improve performance, availability for sustainability of particle accelerators
Transfer technologies to societal applications
Strengthen the European accelerator community
Key figures
May 2017 – 30 April 2021 (4 years)
24.9 M€ (10 M€ EC contribution)
44 beneficiaries from 18 countries
Coordinated by CERN
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3. Reliability & Availability of Particle Accelerators
Compile and assess RAM standards, methods and practises (D6.2, M36)
Compile RAM characteristics for particle accelerator systems (D6.2, M36)
Spread the identified best RAM practices in order to introduce a common RAM baseline (training sessions for ARIES participants in scope of FCC study)
Assess the feasibility of an Open Data Infrastructure for accelerator reliability (MS6.7, M44)
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4. Modelling & Simulation Environment
Activity since 01/2015
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5. Open Reliability Information System - WHY
To assess RAMS characteristics of a “complex technical system” and to plan performance/cost improvements, we rely on quality data about systems and subsystems
From experience the biggest challenge
Today (to my best knowledge) no single source of credible information exists for design teams
”Discovered by industry” decades ago
EuReDatA 1973 covering all industrial installations
EDF EIREDA 1997 European industry
Nuclear - ISO
Oil & Gas – ISO14224
Offshore/Onshore – OREDA 1981
SPARTA – 2014 (windparks)
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6. High Level Architecture of Information System
Fault tracking, logbooks,
observations, estimates
Historical records, asset management
Information
System
Handbooks,
Data collection initatives
Prob. Distribution ( item characteristics, quality constraints, conditions )
Simulation of entire
accelerator complex and
Impacts of different operation scenarios
Model driven
Design and improvement
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7. WHAT is Stored
Structures of accelerator installations (system, subsystem, equipment) as data become available and as needed for use cases
Element information (classes, physical operation principle)
Reliability information (MTTF, MTTR) at all levels in statistical form on a best-effort basis
Links to historic information and operation conditions
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8. Additional Functions Role based access Data anonymization
An extensible membership concept to permit ingesting and providing information using different levels of granularity
A workflow to validate the source and quality of the information
An extensible scheme to query data (e.g. by matching characteristics ranges, by element, by system, according to quality criteria)
Support for different output formats
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9. HOW - A Concrete Activity
Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
develops architecture, specification and pilot
database implementation work + API, minimal user interface
Heidelberg Ion Therapy facility (HIT)
2 operating machines (Heidelberg, Marburg)
fills in exemplary information and validates concept
CERN
reviews the approach
contributes with existing data from a system
verify is usable, e.g. using current HL-LHC modelling activity
IMPORTANT: Engage the community
Hadron therapy facilities
Light sources, FELs
Non-accelerator research infrastructures
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10. Timeline Best-practice and literature review (until December 17)
Collection of use cases (until February 18)
Architecture (until April 18)
Requirements collection (Oct 17 – Dec 18)
Role concept (by Dec 18)
Data quality concept (by Dec 18)
RAM characteristics (what to store for different elements, calculation methods up to subsystem level) (by Sep 18)
API to retrieve statistical information (by Sep 19)
Proof of concept DB and core by (Jan 2020)
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11. This activity needs the involvement of the community.
We Need Your Input!
This activity needs the involvement of the community.
We appreciate any form of constructive suggestions, information, and ideas for true collaboration.
A regular information exchange on the concepts and architecture would be beneficial.
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