Project Planning: Project Schedule

Legacy Schedule Analysis for warm technology option

Systems engineering studies have produced representative model timelines and schedules in order to assess the consequences of different design alternatives with respect to minimizing risk to the mission-critical goals of luminosity and energy. These studies focused on identifying the sequence and interrelationship of high-level activities for both the warm and cold technical approaches such as component production, civil construction, installation and checkout, and beam commissioning for the different subsystems of the collider. They concluded that it is of critical importance to commission the beams and gain operational experience as early as possible because the flexibility of choices available for solving problems generally decreases, and the cost of solutions increases, as the project progresses toward completion. Done sequentially as subsystems become complete, commissioning can and should drive learning and reduce risk for subsequent efforts on other systems. It will also provide stakeholders with timely reassurance of the success of the project, sooner rather than later. The examination of commissioning strategy had a major impact on the scheduling of production and installation tasks for each system, on the project completion milestone, and therefore, for the R&D and industrialization.

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