Operation event logging system of the Swiss Light Source

• Main Author: Andreas Lüdeke
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Physical Society 2009-02-01
• Series: Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams
• Online Access: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.12.024701

Modern 3rd generation synchrotron light sources aim for 100% availability. No single beam interruption is acceptable and every beam disturbance should be investigated: what caused the interruption? Can it be avoided in the future? If it cannot be avoided, how can the recovery be accelerated? An automated event recording system has been implemented at the Swiss Light Source (SLS) in order to simplify beam distortion investigations with respect to a well-defined metrics. The system identifies beam disturbances and records automatically the type and duration of the event. Relevant information of the event, like control system archive data or shift summaries, is linked to the event and presented in Web pages. Tools for the automated evaluation of alarm logs are provided that generate summaries of a beam distortion. On the basis of this information each event will be assigned to a failure cause. The means to filter the events are provided. We will describe the concept and the implementation of the system at the SLS and our experiences with it. Finally, the SLS operation event logging system will be compared with failure analysis at other light sources.