THE CERN EDMS - ENGINEERING AND EQUIPMENT DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Cheryl R. Boyer, Christophe Delamare, S. Mallon-Amerigo, E. Manola-Poggioli, P. Martel, M. Mottier, Johannes Müller, Torbjörn Pettersson, Bruno Rousseau, Anna Suwalska, David Widegren · 2002
The CERN EDMS has extended its capabilities from the management of engineering data to the domain of equipment data management by linking together two commercial systems. The combined system now supports more than 3500 users and manages more than 250,000 drawings, more than 30,000 documents and information about more than 3200 accelerator and detector components for the LHC. The paper presents the current architecture and the future challenges that will have to be met – managing the equipment data for the entire LHC until dismantling and maybe even further – and dealing with the several millions of components making up the LHC. A brief overview of the Web interface and the different mobile terminals now supported by the system is also given.