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S20PD01 Man-Machine Interface Workshop Summary 595
 
  • S. Schaller
    LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
  
  Funding: Work supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy
This report is a summary of the Man-Machine Interface Workshop that took place on 14 November 1991 as part of the 1991 International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems in Tsukuba, Japan. The conference was sponsored by KEK, the Japanese High Energy Physics Laboratory. 		 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S20PD01  
About • Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992  
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S20PD02 Summary of Panel Discussion on Standards and World-Wide Sharing of Software 597
 
  • P.W. Lucas, C.I. Briegel
    Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
  • P.N. Clout
    VISTA, Los Alamos, NM, USA
  • D.P. Gurd
    SSCL, Dallas, TX, USA
  • N. Kanaya
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • U. Raich
    CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
  
  It has been a dream in the accelerator community for some time that software developed for one control system be easily transferable to and usable at another. Until recently this goal was seldom realized in practice. This has been primarily because the various control systems have been developed inhouse with little standardization among them. The world of accelerators was dominated until a few years ago by very large machines constructed for doing high energy physics. The large laboratories could likewise afford large controls groups, which were able to build these complete systems from the ground up. However the accelerator scene has now shifted, with a large fraction of the new work being done at much smaller installations, installations which cannot afford the large staffs previously employed in control system production. Different approaches to this problem were outlined in the discussion.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S20PD02  
About • Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992  
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S20PD03 Panel Discussion on Management of Control Systems 598
 
  • D.S. Barton
    BNL, Upton, New York, USA
  • W. Busse
    HMI, Berlin, Germany
  • L. Coffman
    SSCL, Dallas, TX, USA
  • A. Daneels
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • S.-I. Kurokawa
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
  • R.A. Pose
    JINR, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia
  
  In scientific organizations one often encounters the opinion that management is a trivial activity and that project managers enjoy the easy side of the project life, far away from where the real work is. However, examples abound of projects failing to meet their objectives, running behind schedule, overrunning costs, etc., because of poor management. To several aspects which are crucial for the successful completion of a project the attention they deserve has to be paid if the project is to meet its objectives within the constraints that are imposed upon it. Whereas the engineers do things, the manager gets things done; managers are particularly concerned with: # what is planned to be done: i.e. the product which should be delivered, in our case the control system, # how long will the project take: i.e. schedule, # how one will know when the project is finished: completion criteria, # how much will it cost to implement and to maintain: Le. the cost. These issues have been discussed in the panel discussion.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS1991-S20PD03  
About • Received ※ 11 November 1991 — Accepted ※ 20 November 1991 — Issued ※ 04 December 1992  
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