Minutes of WBS 1 Engineering telecon for June 19, 2002

 

Attendance:

ORNL:  Cole, Goranson, Nelson, Williamson

PPPL:  Brown, Fan, Heitzenroeder, Neilson, Reiersen, Schmidt, Strykowsky, Simmons

 

Presentations:

Nelson – WBS 1 Schedule, Plan, and Issues

 

Discussion:

The meeting consisted of a brief presentation by Nelson on the WBS 1 schedule, plan and issues.  The CDR schedule was very tight for issuing procurement packages for the modular coil winding form R&D (Nov 02) and the vacuum vessel R&D, and this schedule is in the process of being accelerated.  The key date is the release of the new coil set geometry, which is currently scheduled for July 12, 2002. 

 

The present status and format of the task plan was discussed, including the specific tasks that should be in progress now.  One of the tasks, “scoping the coil protection system” should be coordinated with Raki Ramakrishnan, with input from Marsala and Schnieder from the NSTX project.

 

The resource-loaded schedule has been created in Microsoft Project and will be transmitted to Ron Strykowsky via both Excel and Microsoft Project formats after some more tweaking.  Each task will be initially scoped via a “planning package”, and then converted to a “work package” immediately prior to starting the task. ORNL will report monthly costs for each package in M&S and labor $.  We will try out the system during the summer to ensure that everything is running smoothly.

 

A short list of issues was also discussed briefly.  A decision was made to use Microsoft project for the scheduling software. 

 

 

 

Actions:

1. Nelson to add Strykowsky and Williams to the email list for the meeting

2. Strykowsky to send current WBS 1 schedule to Nelson in excel and pdf format.

3. PPPL (Chrzanowski) to pot first test winding

4. Reiersen to determine format for “B-specs”

5. Nelson to determine format for design memos

6. Neilson to contact Majeski about RF launcher issues