New Furniture for the DESY
Accelerator Control Room.

Michael Bieler
New Furniture for the DESY Accelerator
Control Room
WAO 2010, Daejeon, April 14 2010

Content> DESY

> DESY„s accelerators> The accelerator control room
> The old consoles> The new furniture> Acknowledgement

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DESY> DESY is one of theworld's leading centres
for the investigation of thestructure of matter.
> DESY develops, runs
and uses acceleratorsand detectors for photon
science and particle
physics.
> Approximately 2000
employees.
> More than 3000 guest
researchers from morethan 40 countries
annually.

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DESY‘s Accelerators> 6 different accelerators> 1 control room

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The Accelerator Control Room
All machines are operated from one room by one shift crew.
Large room: 11m x 38m = 418m2

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The old Consoles
The old consoles were build in the1970ties in 19” technology:> big screens, 19” wide
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The old Consoles, upgraded
The old consoles were upgraded in2005:> flat screens> 2 screens above each other> still 19” racks below the screensMichael Bieler | DESY Access Control System | April 15, 2010 | Page 7

The End of the old Consoles
The old consoles werereplaced in 2009:> designed in 1973
> no more spare parts> screen position andsize inflexible

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The new Furniture
Design criteria:> 19” racks below some, but not all screens> flexible screen positions> flexible screen sizes> airflow from below, outlet only at the back side
> easy access to the computers below the table> outlets for USB, 230 V AC, ethernet etc. on the table> more room between the consoles

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The new Furniture
19” racks below some, but not all screensMichael Bieler | DESY Access Control System | April 15, 2010 | Page 10

The new Furniture
flexible screen positions

flexible screen sizes

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The new Furniture
airflow from below, outlet only at the back side

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The new Furnitureeasy access to the computers below the table

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The new Furniture
outlets for USB, 230 V AC, ethernet etc. on the table

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The new Furniture
more room between the consoles

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Acknowledgement
The new furniture for the DESY control room was developed by a groupof operators (Bernd Kuehl, Benjamin Polzin, Torsten Schulz, OlafGoldbek, Freddy Wierzchole and Hans-Otto Wiese),designed and build by friendly people from “Carstens Holz und Design”
and installed with a lot of contributions from the DESY groups MCS,MDI and ZBAU.
Thanks a lot
to all of them!

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Appendix: Natural Light ?
German law asks for natural light in every workspace.

The control room does not have any walls to the outside:

OfficesControl RoomExperimental Hall

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Appendix: Natural Light ?
Indirect light from the experimental hall:

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Appendix: Natural Light ?
Light through the ceiling: Structural engineering does not allow big holes
in the ceiling.

A metallized tube reflects daylightinto the room.

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