EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING AND TEST DATA TRACKING FOR THE LHC
Tomasz Ladzinski, Sonia Mallon Amerigo, E. Manola-Poggioli, P. Martel, S Petit, O. Rademakers, Bruno Rousseau, Anna Suwalska, David Widegren · 2004
The MTF system was developed at CERN to capture the design, manufacturing and test data of equipment built for LHC. Today, more than 150.000 descriptions of LHC equipment are managed using the MTF. The system handles both production data and non-conformity issues. The acquisition of the equipment data is both an organizational and a technical challenge. On the organizational side many different aspects of production and management have to be taken into account. The LHC equipment suppliers, wherever their production facilities are located, whatever their computer skills or rates of production are, need a user friendly environment to provide the data with a very limited effort on the shop floor. For expensive equipment such as the LHC dipoles a reliable and robust non-conformity methodology must be put in place while the MTF provides the required information technology support tools. The EDMS Service has developed methods, training processes and tools to cope with an extensive use of the system, a use that will grow during the next years until the LHC is installed. This paper presents the experience acquired and the solutions put in place.