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AN: S32A-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Maintenance and Logistics Support for the International Monitoring System Network of the CTBTO
AU: * Haslinger, F
EM: florian.haslinger@ctbto.org
AF: Monitoring Facilities Support Section, International Monitoring System Division, Provisional Technical Secretariat for the CTBTO Preparatory Commission, Vienna International Centre, Vienna, 1400, Austria
AU: Brely, N
EM: natalie.brely@ctbto.org
AF: Monitoring Facilities Support Section, International Monitoring System Division, Provisional Technical Secretariat for the CTBTO Preparatory Commission, Vienna International Centre, Vienna, 1400, Austria
AU: Akrawy, M
EM: michael.akrawy@ctbto.org
AF: Monitoring Facilities Support Section, International Monitoring System Division, Provisional Technical Secretariat for the CTBTO Preparatory Commission, Vienna International Centre, Vienna, 1400, Austria
AB: The global network of the International Monitoring System (IMS) of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), once completed, will consist of 321 monitoring facilities of four different technologies: hydroacoustic, seismic, infrasonic, and radionuclide. As of today, about 65% of the installations are completed and contribute data to the products issued by the International Data Centre (IDC) of the CTBTO. In order to accomplish the task to reliably collect evidence for any potential nuclear test explosion anywhere on the planet, all stations are required to perform to very high data availability requirements (at least 98% data availability over a 12-month period). To enable reaching this requirement, a three-layer concept has been developed to allow efficient support of the IMS stations: Operations, Maintenance and Logistics, and Engineering. Within this concept Maintenance and Logistics provide second level support of the stations, whereby problems arising at the station are assigned through the IMS ticket system to Maintenance if they cannot be resolved on the Operations level. Maintenance will then activate the required resources to appropriately address and ultimately resolve the problem. These resources may be equipment support contracts, other third party contracts, or the dispatch of a maintenance team. Engineering Support will be activated if the problem requires redesign of the station or after catastrophic failures when a total rebuild of a station may be necessary. In this model, Logistics Support is responsible for parts replenishment and support contract management. Logistics Support also collects and analyzes relevant failure mode and effect information, develops supportability models, and has the responsibility for document management, obsolescence, risk & quality, and configuration management, which are key elements for efficient station support. Maintenance Support in addition is responsible for maintenance strategies, for planning and oversight of the execution of preventive maintenance programs by the Station Operators, and for review of operational troubleshooting procedures used in first level support. Particular challenges for the efficient and successful Maintenance and Logistics Support of the IMS network lie in the specific political boundary conditions regulating its implementation, in the fact that all IMS facilities and their equipment are owned by the respective host countries, and in finding the appropriate balance between outsourcing services and retaining essential in-house expertise.
DE: 7219 Seismic monitoring and test-ban treaty verification
DE: 7294 Seismic instruments and networks (0935, 3025)
SC: Seismology [S]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly