| At the instigation
of the four LHC experiments, the Joint Controls Project was set up
at the end of December,1997. The document setting out the project
proposal may be found here.
Given the increasing constraints on manpower, as well as the evident
similarity in technical requirements for controls amongst the experiments,
the project should enable more efficient use of resources to be made.
The background, objectives, and other details of the project may be
found in the Initial Project
Plan and a report on the first phase of the project is available
at the report in the document Initial
Phase.
After its first two years of operation, a review of the project
took place which led to a clarification of reporting lines and
a
Revised Mandate.
Day-to-day decisions are taken taken by the Project Leader in collaboration
with an Executive Board which meets bi-weekly and includes the
experiments'
Controls Co-ordinators. The Project Leader reports to a the Controls
Co-ordination Board (CCB), previously known as the Steering Group,
which meets quarterly and must approve the programme of work as
well
as identify and make available the necessary resources.
The people working on the project form a Project
Team which holds bi-weekly meetings, the Minutes
of which may be found by following the appropriate hypertext links.
The current planning is detail in the Programme
Plan and supported
by an accompanying Gantt
chart. This provides an overview
of the programme of
work,
and
the details
may be found
below sub-projects. A JCOP
Support and Maintenance Concept has been defined and is currently
under review.
The Joint Controls Project has organised 3 workshops;
The management of the project is carried out by the Project Leader
who reports to a CCB
which meets at least quarterly. The programme of work must be approved
by the CCB up which must
identify and make available the necessary
resources. Day-to-day decisions are made by an Executive
Board, chaired by the Project Leader, and composed of the experiments’
Controls Coordinators and a representative of each sup-port group
involved (until now, IT/CO and PH-ESS).
"The information contained or referred to in these
pages is destined exclusively for use in the framework of the LHC
Experiments Joint Controls Project and may not be used for any other
purpose. Opinions are those of the author(s) only and neither CERN
nor the author(s) accept any liability for errors or omissions."
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