The Advanced Photon Source
a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility

CDB

The Component Database (CDB) is a tool to assist in documenting, organizing, and tracking the components for the accelerator and beamlines. It assists in capturing the documentation of components, provides a repository for inspection and measurement data (e.g. travelers), and supports the logging of component history through the component’s life cycle. The CDB also provides links and interfaces to other commonly used administrative tools, such as PDMLink, ICMS, PARIS, etc.

Description

The Component Database (CDB) is a tool to assist in documenting, organizing, and tracking the components for the accelerator and beamlines. It assists in capturing the documentation of components, provides a repository for inspection and measurement data (e.g. travelers), and supports the logging of component history through the component’s life cycle. The CDB also provides links and interfaces to other commonly used administrative tools, such as PDMLink, ICMS, PARIS, etc.

The CDB has the potential to capture a complete “Bill of Materials” for the MBA well before the installation timeframe. Having an exhaustive BOM in a relational database will facilitate careful planning and tracking of the construction and installation process, a prerequisite for such an ambitious schedule.

There are three primary “domains” captured by the CDB: Component Catalog, Designs, and Inventory. A clear understanding of these domains and how they interrelate is important for proper and consistent use of the CDB. Please see the documentation by following the link below for more information.

Distribution

https://github.com/AdvancedPhotonSource/ComponentDB

https://confluence.aps.anl.gov/display/APSUCMS/The+Component+Database+User+Guide

Component Database for APS Upgrade, S. Veseli, N.D. Arnold, J. Carwardine, G. Decker, D.P. Jarosz, N. Schwarz, In the Proceedings of ICALEPCS 2015.

Acknowledgements

The Component Database (CDB) is developed, and is supported and maintained by Sinisa Veseli and Dariusz Jarosz the XSD Scientific Software Engineering & Data Management group (XSD-SDM) in collaboration with Ned Arnold, John Carwardine, Glenn Decker and others from the APS Upgrade project with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under the APS Upgrade project and Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.

Argonne National Laboratory is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit science.energy.gov.