1 Monday 11 April 2011 BUS DEPARTS FROM BWL AT 07:30 SHARP08:00-09:00 TEA/COFFEE & REGISTRATION at iThemba LABS 09:00-09:25 WELCOME Dr Z Z Vilakazi (Director: iThemba LABS) SESSION 1: HISTORY AND BASIC THEORY OF ACCELERATOR RELIABILITY Chair: Conradie L Co-chair: Thomae R 09:25-09:50 Hardy L A brief history of accelerator reliability 09:50-10:15 Dodson G Practical applications of reliability theory SESSION 2: GENERAL ACCELERATOR RELIABILITY Chair: Conradie L Co-chair: Thomae R 10:15-10:40 Dahl L Many years of experience with UNILAC operation 10:40-11:10 TEA/COFFEE SESSION 2: GENERAL ACCELERATOR RELIABILITY Chair: Conradie L Co-chair: Thomae R 11:10-11:45 Colocho W Availability performance of SLAC’s LCLS X-ray FEL INVITED TALK Chair: Arendse G 11:45-12:10 Kusel T The South African Square Kilometer Array Project SESSION 3: UTILTIES Chair: Sampson P Co-chair: Guasco G 12:10-12:35 Sollander P Incident follow up with major event reports 12:35-13:00 McGilvery D A large scale UPS for the Australian Synchrotron 13:00-14: LUNCH SESSION 4: DESIGN FOR RELIABILITY (CONTROL SOFTWARE) Chair: Preddy D Co-chair: Fourie D 14:15-14:40 Pilcher J Accelerator control systems reliability at iThemba LABS 14:40-15:05 Trewhella J The automation paradox 15:05-15:30 Gotz A What we did right and wrong 15:30-16: TEA/COFFEE SESSION 5: HOW WE DO STATISTICS 16:00-16:25 Luedeke A Do you believe in operation statistics? BUS DEPARTS FROM iTL TO BWL AT 17:15

2 Tuesday 12 April 2011 BUS DEPARTS FROM BWL AT 08:00 SHARPSESSION 6: DESIGN FOR RELIABILITY (MECHANICAL, ELECTRICAL, SAFETY) Chair: Meyroneinc S Co-chair: Kohler I 09:00-09:25 Preddy D Oxygen deficiency monitoring at TRIUMF 09:25-09:50 Saji C New radiation safety interlock system for the Spring-8 accelerator complex 09:50-10:15 Sieber T Practical realization of service concepts for the Siemens Particle Therapy(PT) Systems 10:15-10:40 Bargalló E RAM methodology and activities for IFMIF engineering designing 10:40-11:10 TEA/COFFEE 11:10-11:45 INVITED TALK Chair: Arendse G Coetzee C SALT: Reliability lessons learnt during the first 5 years of operation SESSION 7: CYCLOTRONS AND LINEAR ACCELERATORS Chair: Hardy L Co-chair: Guasco G 11:45-12:10 Bonofiglio J Corrective and preventative maintenance at the NSCL 12:10-12:35 Eichhorn R Operating the superconducting electron accelerator S-DALINAC-built 12:35-13:00 Grillenberger J Operational experience with PSI high intensity proton accelerator 13:00-14:15 PHOTO SESSION & LUNCH Chair: Hardy L Co-chair: Fourie D 14:15-14:40 Franklyn C Redeployment of dual energy RRQ accelerator systems: lessons learnt 14:40-15:05 Sakamoto N Reliable operation of the rf system for heavy ion cyclotrons at RIBF 15:05-15:30 Conradie L Reliability issues at the cyclotron facility of iThemba LABS 15:30-16: TEA/COFFEE 16:00-18:30 Tour of iThemba LABS 18:30-21:00 Spitbraai BUS DEPARTS FROM iTL TO BWL AT 21:00

3 Wednesday 13 April 2011 BUS DEPARTS FROM BWL AT 08:00 SHARPsession 8: vERY LARGE ACCELERATORS Chair: Giachino R Co-chair: de Villiers G 09:00-09:25 White H Accelerator reliability in the Fermilab complex and future plans 09:25-09:50 Claudet S LHC cryogenics: the approach towards reliability 09:50-10:15 Puccio B LHC machine interlocks and beam operation 10:15-10:40 Pojer M LHC commissioning reliability 10:40-11:10 TEA/COFFEE session 9: light sources Chair: Ohkuma H Co-chair: Thomae R 11:10-11:35 Yin L Two years operation and reliability of SSRF 11:35-12:00 Rafael F SLAC accelerators power electronic system operation for reliabilty 12:00-12:25 Takao M SLAC accelerators power electronic system operation for reliabilty Backup systems for the reliability of the Spring-8 accelerators 12:25-12:50 The survey of the power supply reliability at SSRF 12:50-14:15 LUNCH session 10: MEDICAL ACCELERATORS Chair: Takada E Co-chair: Sakildien M 14:15-14:40 Flanz J Can you rely upon rely upon reliability in a medical proton accelerator system 14:40-15:05 Meyroneinc S Treatment and development: a reasonable equation for Particle Therapy? 15:05-15:30 Denker A Reliability of the facility for proton therapy at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin 15:30-16:00 session 11: Improving Reliability Chair: Takada E Co-chair: Sakilien M 16:00-16:25 Sampson P Maintenance and support for increased reliability 16:25-16:50 Dodson G The SNS reliability program BUS DEPARTS FROM iTL TO MOYO RESTAURANT AT 17:15 18:30-22:30 DINNER AT MOYO RESTAURANT BUS DEPARTS FROM MOYO RESTAURANT TO BWL AT 22:30

4 Thursday 14 April 2011 BUS DEPARTS FROM BWL AT 08:00 SHARPsession 11: Improving Reliability Chair: Pilcher J Co-chair: de Villiers G 09:00-09:25 Bayer W Organizational structures at GSI concerning accelerator maintenance and reliability 09:25-09:50 Sollander P CERN intervention priority management 09:50-10:15 Carlucci D Co-authors: O. Carletto; G. Daniele; A. Lombardi; M. Poggi; P. Posocco. Approaches to the maintenance at LNL 10:15-10:40 Pettersson P Spare parts and redundancy at TSL – Uppsala University 10:40-11:10 TEA/COFFEE INVITED TALK Chair: Arendse G 11:10-11:45 van Wyk S Equipment reliability at Koeberg session 12: Software tools & methods for reliability Chair: Luedeke A Co-chair: Kohler I 11:45-12:10 Johnson A Design and development of a remotely controlled thermal imaging platform 12:10-12:35 Warren J Online integration of radiation safety work control forms 12:35-13:00 Hurley N Existing and future trends in E-logbooks and how these have and will improve accelerator reliability 13:00-14:15 LUNCH session 13: Software tools & methods for reliability Chair: Dodson G Co-chair: Sakildien M 14:15-14:40 Luedeke A The electronic logbook revisited 14:40-15:05 LHC intervention scheduling with the work acceptance tool 15:05-15:30 Soblet C Maintainability and customer service operations at IBA 15:30-16:00 session 14: MAGNETS 16:00-16:25 Spencer C Improving the reliability of particle accelerator magnets 16:25-17:15 Open discussion on magnet reliability BUS DEPARTS FROM iTL TO BWL AT 17:15

5 Friday 15 April 2011 BUS DEPARTS FROM BWL AT 08:00 SHARP09:00-09:40 Meyroneinc S Control system software 09:40:10:30 Luedeke A Centralized database 10:30-10:40 Morel J WAO 10:40-11:10 TEA/COFFEE 11:10-11:50 Hardy L ARW Website 11:50-12:25 Dodson G Highlights of ARW2011 12:25-12:45 Topics for next ARW 12:45-13:00 Closing remarks & announcement of next ARW