Index Introduction The Research at Rijnhuizen Results in 2008 Education, Training, Outreach and Public Information Output Appendix website Rijnhuizen 2.12 | Support Facilities division Division: Support facilities Department head: A.A.M. Oomens The Support Facilities division, which is headed by the institute manager, consists of two technological groups, i.e. Mechanical Techniques and Electronics and IT, and three groups responsible for general support: Technical groups: • Mechanical Techniques • Electronics and Information Technology General support: • Management support • Financial Administration • Domestic Facilities 2.12.1 Mechanical Techniques Group leader: F.J. van Amerongen Personnel: M.P.A. van Asselen, A.G.M. van den Bogaard, D.M.L Cornet, T. Hoogenboom, J. Lagerweij, B. Lamers, N.N. Morees, I. Paape, R.S. van Mourik, L.W.E.G. Römers, J.R. Rottier, A. Tamminga, D. Tolhoek, C.R. Wolbeer, P.M. Wortman The Mechanical Techniques group designs and manufactures equipment used for scientific research. The group also advises scientific groups and research technicians on mechanical constructions and provides help with the assembly of the experiments. For designing equipment, 10 systems with Catia V5 are available. Catia is the leading solid modeling software used in fusion research. It provides the possibility of building assemblies, automatic generation of workshop drawings, and performing several kinds of analyses such as finite element analysis, heat load analysis, kinematical analysis and frequency analysis. All documents produced by programs such as Catia, Word, Excel and all others are stored by a PDM system called SmarTeam. The manufacturing of the designed equipment is done using several machines, including CNC-milling and -lathing machines. The group also has the knowledge and equipment required for vacuum and high temperature brazing and TIG welding. The CAM software used as the interface between design software and CNC machines is Go-elan and Catia Cam. Figure 2.20a: Exploded view of a skimmer to be used in the source tank of Magnum Psi. Figure 2.20b: Three channel source for Magnum-PSI. 2.12.2 Electronics & Information Technology Group leader: G.W. van der Linden/A. Broekema Personnel: V. van Beveren, M.T. Breugem, P.J. Busch, J.W. Genuit, E.B.W. Goes, A.F. van der Grift, P.W.C. Groen, M. van der Kaaij, G. Kaas, J.J. Kamp, B.J.M. Krijger, S.W.T de Kroon, G. Land, W. Melissen, A.J. Poelman, C.J. Theunissen, A.J.H. Tielemans, A.P. Visser, G.G. Wajer, F. Wijnoltz, R.W. Zimmerman. The Electronics & Information Technology group is responsible for the electronic equipment for all programmes and projects of the institute. The equipment is either selected from commercial suppliers or designed and manufactured in-house. This includes a variety of analog, digital, high voltage, and power electronics. The electrical engineers of the group have been working on a large number of projects, many of them for the FELIX/Felice system. Additionally, support has been given to the research group in Jülich, and to in-house groups such as Magnum-PSI, Pilot-PSI, Moldyn, and nSI. The group also designs and implements automated control and data acquisition systems of the various diagnostics and experiments under development in the institute. The main focus in 2008 was on the control systems for Felice, Magnum-PSI, and the nSI coater (ADC). Finally, the group is responsible for all the computer and informatics related technology in the institute: all PCs, network servers, printers, network infrastructure, data storage, backup and restore, etc.. Last year the project of a massive overhaul of the IT-infrastructure has been completed, thus resulting in a modern up-to-date high performance network and an institute-wide wireless network. Video conferencing has been introduced as a new service. Server virtualisation has been taken some steps further by migrating older servers to the new platform. More information on the work of the group can be found on the Rijnhuizen public website. Figure 2.21a: The Magnum-PSI project needs monitoring for the future plasma target and ring. The monitoring will be done with a PLC. Both the ring and the target will get an individual interface box. This interface will convert the voltage and current of the ring or target to the 10V input of the PLC. Figure 2.21b: Heat profile obtained during a test of the Magnum-PSI power supply. 2.12.3 Management Support Group leader: A.A.M. Oomens Personnel: M.M. de Boeij, F.A. Hoppe, E.M. Khan, R.W. Rademaker, P.J.C.E. Reimus, A.A. de Ridder, M.J. van Veenendaal, M.D. van der Vlis, I.H. Vörös, E.C.M. van Wijk The main tasks of the secretariat are to provide management support to the director and the division heads, handling travel requests, managing agendas and supporting various boards and meetings. The library provides access to all relevant journals in the institute’s fields of research. Following trends in electronic pulication, a significant reduction in hard copy journals has been achieved. Since Rijnhuizen is rather unique in the way in which it has organized access to the technical support groups, the procedure is described in more detail below. Planning The central planning group supports project managers, the heads of the technical groups and the Institute Management at Rijnhuizen by: • Providing insight into the activities related to the technical (sub-) projects necessary for running FOM-programmes. • Making visible the anticipated duration of projects. • Identifying milestones for (sub-) projects, enabling project control. • The coordination of activities related to the running projects, which is necessary for an optimal use of the resources of the technical groups and which minimizes the duration of the planned projects. • Providing insight into bottlenecks. • Producing personal planning lists for each individual employee specifying which activity has to be done, and when. • Spreading the workload. • Generating managerial information from the project planning schemes. This information provides the Technical Coordination Committee (TCC) with the data necessary to set priorities. Planning meetings Projects are constantly on the move and the planning needs to be adjusted continuously. Therefore, project planning meetings are held on a regular basis to discuss project progress. The participants at these meetings are usually the project leader, the assistant project leader(s), the group leaders and the coordinators of the technical groups as well as the project planner. Planning and milestone overviews are discussed during the three-weekly Technical Coordination Committee (TCC) meetings. Project Information Feedback  In addition to the planning meetings once every three weeks, the heads of the technical departments, the project leaders and the assistant project leaders are requested to fill in the hours that their staff members have worked on a project in a project progress information form, in order to enable adjustment of the project plans. This information is used to monitor the project progress and to revise the personal planning lists of the employees of the technical and experimental groups. Planning tools This year, the central planning group successfully migrated the planning from the former planning tool SuperProject (by Computer Assosiates) to Primavera P6. With Primavera P6, we have a powerful and future-proof planning tool, which gives us the opportunity to further improve the quality of the planning.  Primavera P6 has the possibility to interface with several time-registration programs. At Rijnhuizen we use TimEnterprise for time-registration. Over the coming period we will run a pilot project to connect these systems in order to experiment with automatically obtaining progress information on activities via the time-registration system. In addition to this, Primavera P6 has features to improve information provision to project members and heads, such as the Web-based user interface. In the future a further implementation of Primavera P6 is foreseen. 2.12.4 Financial Administration Group leader: J.W.M. Sukking Personnel: N. Nobbenhuis-Versluis, A. Reinders The activities of the financial administration group include ordering goods, checking invoices, charging the appropriate budgets, project administration and managing the storeroom. The bookkeeping is done on a FOM-wide system. As an example, each year about 5000 incoming invoices and 2000 outgoing orders have to be handled. The large number of externally acquired projects and contracts from a variety of funding agencies, often with different rules regarding accountability and matching, makes project administration an increasingly complex activity. Starting in 2008, a web-based time registration system is gradually implemented for all employees. In close collaboration with the institute manager, the detailed budget for each year is drafted and implemented. Information for the budget holders is provided on a web server by means of in-house developed software application. 2.12.5 Domestic facilities Group leader: J.E. Kragten Personnel: A. Bikker, J.C. Bleijenberg-Maarsseveen, S.H.M. Bouwens, W.K. van der Graaf, C.A.M Groeneveld-Lammerts, J. Haak, F.F. Hekkenberg, M. Kloosterman, E.P.A. de Korte, J.M. Rietveld-Nieuwhoff, M. van der Poll, P. Stekelenburg, J.B. Uwland, L.M. van de Ven-van den Akker Technical and domestic services are responsible for building maintenance and installations, such as heating, cooling and power. Also the maintenance of the historical mansion and park surrounding the buildings is included. The reception desk handles all incoming general phone calls and monitors admittance to the Rijnhuizen buildings. The safety officer is responsible for safety and taking all necessary measures to ensure healthy working conditions. The resposibilities include radiological and environmental safety. Rijnhuizen has a team of about 15 employees trained in first aid, fire extinguishing and accident prevention.