SIT Meeting

 

June 24, 2002

 

Engineering Issues (Reiersen)

 

  1. WBS/Organizational Issues – An organizational chart for the Engineering organization has been developed, consistent with the proposed WBS.  There are still a couple of loose ends dangling.
    1. Magnetic Diagnostics – Magnetic diagnostics have been moved to WBS 1.  However, our rationale for making that change might have been flawed.  Lazarus (ORNL) will be responsible for defining magnetic diagnostic requirements.  In that capacity, he will report through Mike Z (Project Physics).  Designing the magnetic diagnostics is a bit of an art, requiring previous experience in successfully avoiding problems such as RF coupling.  Nobody with substantial, relevant experience has been identified at ORNL.  PPPL has several likely candidates, presently engaged in NSTX.  GA and presumably MIT also would have qualified candidates.  If the magnetic diagnostics are designed at PPPL, it makes sense to build them here also.  The Project needs to consider moving magnetic diagnostics back under WBS 3.
    2. Integrated Systems Testing – Hawryluk suggested that Integrated Systems Testing would likely be performed by the Operations Group prior to first plasma, not the Construction Group.  This would argue for moving Integrated Systems Testing back under WBS 9.
  2. FY02 Planning – Planning for FY02 is lagging.  A status is provided below.  Our target date is to have plans and resource requirements for FY02 in place by the next SIT meeting on July 1.
    1. WBS 1 – Drafting of plans is largely complete.  These plans need to be reviewed with cognizant engineers.
    2. WBS 2 – A kick-off meeting was held with Tim Stevenson and Bill Blanchard on Friday, June 21 (minutes to be posted).  Tim will be taking over NBI (WBS 25) from Kugel.  Blanchard will be taking over WBS 21-23.  Plans for WBS 2 were discussed.  Their priorities will be to review the scopes of work in their respective WBS elements, review the cost and baselines, ensure that the legacy equipment on PBX is properly tagged and stored, and submit Job Estimate Proposals for FY03 work prior to FY03.
    3. WBS 3 – The priority should be to support the development of the stellarator core with regard to diagnostic interfaces.  No metrics have been set yet.
    4. WBS 4 – Work scope has been discussed with Raki.  Need to finalize deliverables and resource requirements.
    5. WBS 5 – Development of FY03 work plans is the only foreseen task.
    6. WBS 6 – Work plans drafted.  Need to be reviewed with cognizant WBS managers and have resource requirements finalized.
    7. WBS 7 – Nothing has been done here.
    8. WBS 8 – Substantial amount of work needs to be accomplished between now and October 1.  Schedules and resource requirements need to be established.
  3. Meetings – SIT meetings are held weekly. (I would like to invite Dudek and Perry, starting as soon as they can make it but not later than October.)  Ditto for WBS 1 Integration meetings (ORNL/PPPL telecon).  We will meet once a month with cognizant WBS Managers for a cost and schedule review.  Blanchard strongly suggested a bi-weekly integration meeting with WBS Managers.  Since WBS 1 already has a weekly integration meeting at which many of these issues could be raised, I am inclined to hold a project-wide integration meeting (telecon) perhaps once a month to bring everyone up to speed on what is going on elsewhere in the Project and provide a forum for folks to discuss issues of concern.  Maybe we could pre-empt the WBS 1 integration meeting for a project-wide integration meeting once in a while rather than scheduling yet another meeting.
  4. CDR Recommendations – Comments requested by June 28.