Author: Nicquevert, B.
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TUPS060 Designing, Integrating, and Coordinating Installation of MedAustron 1671
 
  • B. Nicquevert, C. Hauviller
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • M. Benedikt, B. Nicquevert
    EBG MedAustron, Wr. Neustadt, Austria
 
  Funding: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland EBG MedAustron, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
"Give me a layout good enough and a building to place it, and I will install your accelerator". To paraphrase Archimedes, this is the role attributed to Integration team in MedAustron project. Starting with the optics layout and a building sketch, the integration work consists of a series of activities, interlinked in a complex manner. First the design and integration of the accelerator: list items, define geometrical envelopes with interfaces, put them in position in CAD, identify conflicts, define input for items design and infrastructure. Then the various equipment is procured: verify and validate design data, follow-up manufacturing, fiducialize equipment, build supports. Lastly global installation: check equipped building, define survey framework, install and pre-align equipment on supports, move assemblies to their final location, survey actual position and adjust to theoretical position. The whole chain of operations from a layout to a real beam in MedAustron is illustrated. The help from item-driven data management is emphasized. Grouping all activities within a single team favors interactions between stakeholders and consistency of activities.