The same is and has been true in the vertical space for several years. Willem restates his desire to have the AGS IPM available as a comfort display. Joe Skelly lists some of the software issues. Neither of these steps has been taken. Joe estimates that at least a man week of his time would be necessary to get them.
Operations takes each morning in an attempt to capture the essence of the running machine.
The old idea, still relevant, is to reduce the machine state to a handful of numbers, which then for example can be displayed on a strip chart, and from which one can quickly conclude if something about the complex has changed. The value of the numbers depends nearly completely on their being checked by the machine physicists responsible for the various sections of the acceleration complex. We want to revisit the recipes used to get the numbers there are lots of new folks in the control room. We want to redefine the numbers. The handling of the data is a second issue.