ICALEPCS2023 - List of Authors (Thomas, G.)

Paper	Title	Page
TUMBCMO39	Enhanced Maintenance and Availability of Handling Equipment using IIoT Technologies	462
	E. Blanco Viñuela, A.G. Garcia Fernandez, D. Lafarge, G. Thomas, J-C. Tournier CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
	CERN currently houses 6000 handling equipment units categorized into 40 different families, such as electric overhead travelling cranes (EOT), hoists, trucks, and forklifts. These assets are spread throughout the CERN campus, on the surface (indoor and outdoor), as well as in underground tunnels and experimental caverns. Partial access to some areas, a large area to cover, thousands of units, radiation, and diverse needs among handling equipment makes maintenance a cumbersome task. Without automatic monitoring solutions, the handling engineering team must conduct periodic on-site inspections to identify equipment in need of regulatory maintenance, leading to unnecessary inspections in hard-to-reach environments for underused equipment but also reliability risks for overused equipment between two technical visits. To overcome these challenges, a remote monitoring solution was introduced to extend the equipment lifetime and perform optimal maintenance. This paper describes the implementation of a remote monitoring solution integrating IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) technologies with the existing CERN control infrastructure and frameworks for control systems (UNICOS and WinCC OA). At the present time, over 600 handling equipment units are being monitored successfully and this number will grow thanks to the scalability this solution offers.
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DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUMBCMO39
About •	Received ※ 03 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 28 November 2023 — Issued ※ 19 December 2023
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Enhanced Maintenance and Availability of Handling Equipment using IIoT Technologies

462

E. Blanco Viñuela, A.G. Garcia Fernandez, D. Lafarge, G. Thomas, J-C. Tournier
CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland

CERN currently houses 6000 handling equipment units categorized into 40 different families, such as electric overhead travelling cranes (EOT), hoists, trucks, and forklifts. These assets are spread throughout the CERN campus, on the surface (indoor and outdoor), as well as in underground tunnels and experimental caverns. Partial access to some areas, a large area to cover, thousands of units, radiation, and diverse needs among handling equipment makes maintenance a cumbersome task. Without automatic monitoring solutions, the handling engineering team must conduct periodic on-site inspections to identify equipment in need of regulatory maintenance, leading to unnecessary inspections in hard-to-reach environments for underused equipment but also reliability risks for overused equipment between two technical visits. To overcome these challenges, a remote monitoring solution was introduced to extend the equipment lifetime and perform optimal maintenance. This paper describes the implementation of a remote monitoring solution integrating IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) technologies with the existing CERN control infrastructure and frameworks for control systems (UNICOS and WinCC OA). At the present time, over 600 handling equipment units are being monitored successfully and this number will grow thanks to the scalability this solution offers.

Slides TUMBCMO39 [0.560 MB]

DOI •

reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUMBCMO39

About •

Received ※ 03 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 28 November 2023 — Issued ※ 19 December 2023

Cite •

reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)