The NSTX trouble reporting system

Author

Sengupta, S. ; Oliaro, G.

Author_Institution

Plasma Phys. Lab., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

242

Lastpage

244

Abstract

An online trouble reporting system (TRS) has been introduced at NSTX. The TRS is used by NSTX operators to report problems that affect NSTX operations. The purpose of the TRS is to enhance NSTX reliability and maintainability by identifying components, occurrences, and trends that contribute to machine downtime. All NSTX personnel have access to the TRS. The user interface is via a Web browser, such as Netscape or Internet Explorer. This Web-based feature permits any X-terminal, PC, or MAC access to the TRS. The TRS is based upon a trouble reporting system developed at the DIII-D Tokamak, at General Atomics Technologies (Petersen and Miller, 1991). This paper provides a detailed description of the TRS software architecture, user interface, MS SQL server interface and operational experiences. In addition, sample data from the TRS database are summarized and presented.

Keywords

Internet; SQL; Tokamak devices; maintenance engineering; nuclear engineering computing; online front-ends; physics computing; relational databases; software architecture; user interfaces; DIII-D Tokamak; Internet Explorer; MS SQL server interface; Microsoft Access database; NSTX reliability; NSTX trouble reporting system; Netscape; Web browser; machine downtime; maintainability; personnel; relational database; software architecture; user interface; Databases; Internet; Laboratories; Maintenance; Personnel; Physics; Plasmas; Reliability engineering; Tokamaks; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering, 2002. 19th Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7073-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FUSION.2002.1027685

Filename

1027685