Speaker
Davide Tommasini
Description
The magnets installed in the CERN accelerator complex provide impressively high standards of reliable operation thanks to a tight program of preventive maintenance and consolidation: in total during 2009 the machine down-time due to magnet failures was below 100 hours.
However the risk of approaching “end of life” situations, not signaled by observable precursors, increases with time and the maintenance plans have to be adapted to the magnet “age”.
The talk, summarizes the regular maintenance strategy of the normal conducting magnets of the CERN accelerator complex, with emphasis on actions to reinforce this program considering the age of the machines.
Furthermore an overview of the spare strategy is given, and directions for possible new consolidation programs are outlined.