Speaker
Roberto Saban
(CERN)
Description
Following the uncertainty of the installation schedule, the HCWG
focussed on the
commissioning of two sectors around an even point in parallel
augmented by a number
of additional constraints. This exercise, which was published as a
Management
Report, yielded commissioning times and resource needs which can be
scaled –within
reasonable limits- to the requirements of the final installation
schedule.
Both the durations of the different phases and the personnel
required have been
estimated in the light of previous experience at the String and
during Hera
commissioning.
The current trend of reducing the time available for hardware
commissioning cannot
continue indefinitely. The hard limit is reached when the time taken
by the test
procedures and by the result interpretation cannot be further
shortened but also
when additional resources to obtain shorter times cannot be added.
The talk will describe how the evaluation exercise was conducted,
focus on the test
procedures, quality assurance and decision making process, propose
alternative
strategies for deploying additional manpower and finally emphasize
the need for
first-rate service from the infrastructures and software
applications.
Author
Roberto Saban
(CERN)
