22–26 Sept 2008
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone
<font color="red">WARNING: 29th August, 2008 registration deadline</font>

Programme

The workshop will be organized in several sessions. All attendees are encouraged to contribute oral presentations (duration 15 minutes) and participate in informal discussions with respect to the following 4 main workshop topics:
  • OPERATION

    Practical engineering (layout, ergonomic design ..), operational management applications and techniques, utility management, manpower scheduling, refrigerant loss detection and control of system contamination, feedback for optimized design

  • MAINTENANCE

    short and long term maintenance strategy, scheduling, enhance operational costs, reliability, and flexibility, component reliability, performance indicators

  • SAFETY

    equipment safety issues and philosophies, national norms and standards, risk analysis methods

  • CONTROL

    control philosophy and automation, optimization of operating parameters, Man Machine Interface (SCADA), reliability of industrial PLC (operating system issues …)