Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Inspectability (RAMI) workshop

Friday 25 Jun 2021, 09:00 → 12:30 Europe/London

UKRI- STFC, CERN and the Wigner Institute are holding an industry-academic workshop on the following topics Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Inspectability (RAMI). This is in the frame of the Horizon 2020 Accelerator Research and Innovation for European Science and Society (ARIES) project, from work package 14: Promoting Innovation.

In the past years ARIES has organised topical discussions on Reliability of particle accelerators. At this workshop we are extending the discussions to the full RAMI elements including Availability, Maintainability and Inspectability of particle accelerators and also embracing fusion nuclear plants and Accelerator Driven Systems. The workshop will bring together participants from the international and national science facilities, academics and industry to share their specific examples of good practise, future and current challenges and recent developments. Speakers will offer insight into one or more of the areas within RAMI and a panel discussion will round off the day to allow for debate on the topics covered. More details of the talks at the event can be found on the timetable.

Participation is free and registration is required, you are kindly invited to register.

1 Introduction

Speaker: Marcello Losasso (CERN)

2 Introduction to STFC Daresbury Laboratory

Speaker: Peter Mcintosh

3 Experience of the Ion Beam Centre at the University of Surrey for RAMI: Application of a Quality Assurance programme

Speaker: Roger Webb (University of Surrey)

10:00 Break

4 Allocation and verification of availability requirements for diagnostic functions of Nuclear Fusion machines: a relevant experience for accelerator technology

Speaker: Stefano La Rovere (NIER Ingegniera SpA)

5 Access Challenges in the Nuclear Sector for Inspection and NDE

Speaker: Alex Jenkins (Oxford University)

6 Linear Accelerators in Radiation Treatment Devices for Cancer Therapy

Speaker: Ed Snyder (Variant Medical Systems)

11:30 Break

7 Examples of RAMI in Fusion

Speaker: Martin Townsend (UKAEA)

8 All panel Q&A

9 Wrap-up