Beamline Commissioning Readiness Review Team
(September 21, 2004)

1. Purpose

The APS Beamline Commissioning Readiness Review Team (BCRRT) advises the AES Division Director for all activities related to commissioning of new beamlines.

BCRRT is mainly responsible for reviewing the readiness of new beamlines for commissioning.  A subset of the members of the BCRRT form the beamline commissioning team (BCT), which conducts the commissioning of new beamlines.  All outstanding issues from Beamline Safety Design Review Steering Committee (BSDRSC) review are addressed at the BCRRT meetings. The plans for commissioning a new beamline are reviewed to ensure that the components and equipment designs satisfy ANL and APS safety and operations requirements.  Plans will be reviewed for consistency with APS schedules.

BCRRT is also responsible to review and approve operational changes to beamline configurations.  At the discretion of the chair changes to beamline configurations are forwarded to BSDRSC for a formal review.

2. Membership

Member

Division

Subject
S. Butala RSO RSO-AHP
P. Den Hartog AES Front Ends & IDs
S. Davey AES AOD Technical Operations Specialist chair
B. Glagola AES User ES&H and User Safety Officer
G. Goeppner AES Accelerator vacuum / FE Vacuum
Y. Jaski AES Thermo-mechanical design (ad-hoc)
G. Markovich AES PSS & EPS
M. Ramanathan AES CCSM & Chair
K. Randall AES BSDRSC Chair
D. Shu AES Thermo-mechanical design
R. Salazar AES Secretary, BCRRT
J. Vacca AES Health Physics
W. Wesolowski AES Facility Operations
Floor Coordinator AES User ES&H
Beamline Staff CAT Beamline responsible staff

3. Method

The request to conduct a BCRRT is initiated by the beamline staff through the floor coordinator.

The Committee will:

  • Review the BSDRSC review report to address any outstanding issues,
  • Ensure that all beamline documents (layouts, ray tracings, etc) are on file,
  • Review the readiness of the beamline for commissioning,
  • Review the commissioning plans to make sure that it meet APS and ANL standards of safety,
  • Validate that the beamline or front end meet APS operational requirements (e.g., compliance with the APS Beamline Vacuum Policy),
  • Schedules the commissioning activity,
  • Initiates the commissioning team.

4. Frequency of Meetings

Meetings will be held at the direction of the Committee Chair in response to requests for commissioning of new beamlines, and for modifications to existing beamlines.

Updated:  February 23, 2006