Workshop on Accelerator Operations '98
Overview & Format

The workshop will start with a getting acquainted social affair the evening of May 18, 1998.

"How We Do Business" was the main theme of WAO'96 at Jefferson Laboratory in Virginia.
WAO'98 will focus on two major themes:

Training
Maintenance

How other similar high technology organizations operate
The special problems of small labs
Scheduling
Control Room design

A mix of plenary and poster sessions are planned. Questions will be encouraged at the end of each plenary presentation. Some presentations will conclude with panel discussions. The poster sessions should generate many productive one-on-one interchanges.

Small breakaway or evening sessions may be added if requested (and organized) by volunteer chairpersons. If you have an idea for such a session and would like to organize it, please contact the workshop secretary, Fred W. Bach , as soon as possible.

The schedule includes invited speakers from outside the Accelerator Operations community.

The Workshop Dinner Banquet will be atop Grouse Mountain (overlooking Vancouver) at the Grouse Nest restaurant.

Attendees will be able to take a guided tour of the TRIUMF accelerator site.

Note:
- The language of this workshop will be English. No translation services will be provided.

The "Training" sessions will look at these type of questions:

1. Staff recruitment
2. The "Accelerator Operator" profession
3. How much time and money do you invest in training, initially and after 'qualification'?
4. Training programs for the new recruit.
5. How do you monitor training progress?
6. Does the training effort continue after the operator has "qualified"?
7. Do you consider your method of training efficient?
8. How is the training perceived by trainees, trainers and management?

The "Maintenance" session contributors will explore issues such as:

1. What is the frequency of maintenance days?
2. Do you practice corrective (run until the machine breaks) or preventative (scheduled)maintenance?
3. How is maintenance organized?
4. Task identification, prioritization, risk analysis, scheduling and planning
5. How are machine upgrades handled?
6. Statistic gathering and analysis
7. How much do you rely on system experts to repair the accelerator?
8. To what extent do operators make repairs?
9. Do you use procedures and/or troubleshooting guides?
10. Do you consider software changes part of maintenance?
11. How do you deal with cross Divisional maintenance?
12. What do you like and/or dislike about your system?

Oral Presentation Paper example and instruction files.


Poster abstracts for publication should be 1 or 2 pages

Poster abstract sample in PDF format.
Poster abstract sample in MS WORD format.

Microsoft Word .doc files (versions 6 or 97)
LaTex
Microsoft Word for Macintosh

Note : All material submitted for presentation (including abstracts and author bios) may be reproduced, printed, published, and publicly distributed on the World Wide Web or in the bound workshop proceedings. By submitting their work to WAO'98 authors agree to release their submissions for such publication.

We believe the poster sessions will enhance the quantity and quality of the information exchanged during the workshop. The poster guidelines include basic laboratory data that will make it easy to compare the approaches used by different labs. If you would like to present a poster at WAO'98, please contact the appropriate session chair via the email links above (for mailing addresses and telephone numbers, see the Program Committee page).

Poster Format

The posters will be mounted on double sided 4' x 8' display boards. Two posters will be mounted on each side. The size of the posters is therefore limited to approximately 36" wide and 48" high.

WAO'98 Call for Posters Package PDF file   and the first page in  plain text format

PLEASE NOTE: Some of the URLS contained in the PDF file incorrectly have mixed case. All the URLs must be in lower case ...FWB

Example Poster Files:  

The TRIUMF-ATG How We Do Business poster was prepared using Microsoft's PowerPoint 97 program. It is set up for plotting as a 36" x 48" poster. This file can be used as a starting point for producing other posters.

TRIUMF HWDB Poster Abstract
TRIUMF-ATG HWDB Poster - PDF 2.1 format (845 kb file)
TRIUMF-ATG HWDB Poster - PDF 3.0 format (678 kb file)
TRIUMF-ATG HWDB Poster - MS PowerPoint 97 format (1319 kb file)