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EPTAB 7 Electronics Pool Status Report

EPTAB 7 Electronics Pool Status Report. 6 December 2004 Chris Parkman Catherine Moine. Personnel changes. Retirements Gilbert Dumont – end May Power supplies, crates, measurement instruments, etc., etc. Albert Zimmer – end June Pool reception Recruitment Ex-industrial support

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EPTAB 7 Electronics Pool Status Report

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  1. EPTAB 7Electronics Pool Status Report 6 December 2004 Chris ParkmanCatherine Moine

  2. Personnel changes • Retirements • Gilbert Dumont – end May • Power supplies, crates, measurement instruments, etc., etc. • Albert Zimmer – end June • Pool reception • Recruitment • Ex-industrial support • Bertrand Smaniotto – Pool administration • Alain Guy – Instruments • New • Clement Richard – Pool reception, maintenance • Ex-CERN apprentice, 3 year LD, LS contract • Started 1 December 2004 • Paid from Pool funds • Guy & Richard EPTAB7

  3. Reduced opening hours • 10:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 16:00 • In any case these were the most popular times • Help given out of these hours on request. EPTAB7

  4. New financial conditions • Approved by Cashmore • November 2003 • Simplified conditions for • Rental • Calculated from the real cost • Purchase + maintenance (verification & repair) • Adjusted annually • Compensation • 100% of purchase price for first year • -10%/year to minimum of 10% • Resales • Market value • See “Electronics Pool User’s Guide” • http://ess.web.cern.ch/ESS/ElectronicsPoolUsersGuide.htm EPTAB7

  5. Pool rental “freeze” • For experiments not wishing to dismantle during shut-down • “Freeze” conditions • 18% of normal rental (~overhead costs) • No use, no movements, no support • NA49, Cosmics, Dirac • Offered to the LHC experiments EPTAB7

  6. Financial status - end 2004 • Income: 2.2 MCHF • Maintenance: 250 kCHF • Manpower: 80 k CHF • Investment: 1 MCHF • TOTAL: 870 kCHF • Manpower for 2005 ~200 kCHF • Investment carry-over ~670 kCHF EPTAB7

  7. Investments EPTAB7

  8. Migration to BAAN400 • First stage complete • Same instance as CERN Stores • Water-tight from Stores accounting, etc. • Improved monthly billing procedure, • No further need for database support in ESS Group • One full-time equivalent database engineer position redeployed into technical support role EPTAB7

  9. Electronic reservation • Work by IT/AIS • Ensures that budget accounts are valid and provisioned • EDH signature chain • Allows off-line work by Pool reception • Better preparation • Requires a different approach by users • Planning! • “Self-service” still available EPTAB7 Web site

  10. The Pool > 2004

  11. Where to go • Critical size • With given resources, Pool can handle certain level of “business” • We need to keep that level up to ensure best use of resources and survival of the service • Laboratory instruments? • Principal (sole?) supplier of instruments • To PH, to CERN? • Modular electronics • Coherent product lines in NIM and VME • Modules • Housings • What next? • Power supplies • HV • LV EPTAB7

  12. Purchases of ‘scopes EPTAB7

  13. Income > 2005 Guesstimate - Best case?Assumes that some experiments will keep equipment in place at “overhead” rate of 18% Overhead 20% Guess!Resumption of LHC test activity at 2004 levels, no fixed target and other users continuing at 2004 levels Overhead 19% Overhead 13% EPTAB7

  14. Electronics Pool Technical Advisory Board • Mandate • EPTAB advises the ESS Group Leader on the technical profile of the Electronics Pool (types and mix of equipment) and on the choice of individual items of equipment • Future • Given the demise of the EAB, Dieter Schlatter has asked me to proposed a broader mandate for a committee to cover the mandate of EPTAB and that part of the EAB mandate concerned with the Pool. Also to include representatives of the wider user community (CERN users) EPTAB7

  15. EPTAB • Members act • Ad personum • As representatives of the experiments • As representatives of their groups • Thank you for your help • We will need more of your time to best define investments EPTAB7

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