- Automation vs operator skills Automation is more and more present in every control room. How much can realistically be automated? What is the minimum staffing with automation? Could it be 0?
- Methods for remote work planning, supervision and execution: which methods are used to plan, supervise and execute remote work?
- Machine learning for failure diagnosis: How can ML and AI help on fault detection and failure diagnosis. Is your lab working on any of these new techniques?
- Maintenance tracking tools: what tool is used to track maintenance at your facility? is it a central to the whole facility? How is it used by the operators?
- Gender balance in Control Rooms: Do you have a non-balance crew in you operators’ group? If so, what do you do to improve it?
- Communication and shift work: Due to shift work operators can be disconnected from events within operations or the facility at large. What do you do to keep the operators current and connected?
- Operators career development: Being an operator on shift for many years can be tiresome. Does your organization provide a career path to move away from operating?
- Operation after the pandemic: What changes have you made during the pandemic that you will continue to use going forwards into the future?
- Operators recruitment: When you have to hire a new operator, what are the skills you are looking for?
- What are the tasks/roles that operators do when they are not operating?
- Interface to controls: Operators know best what is needed in the control room to operate the machine and the software specialists know best how to write applications. How is your facility organised when it comes to writing software applications for the control room?
- Accelerator performance is held to a high standard. This is very advantageous for the users, but becomes a problem for the troubleshooting capabilities of the operators. How do you train the operators on faulty diagnosis and recovery?
5-8 October 2021
Virtual Event
Europe/Madrid timezone