On 12/30/2016 09:07 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > But did they fix the problem? It seems to me that tracking the helium > level in the system ought to be something a 6th grader watching > mechanical gauges could do. They have a huge industrial control system, where everything can be monitored from anywhere in the lab, from a PC. I don't know the details, but I gather it must have been one of those things that some sensor broke and was manually bypassed over the weekend or something, and so they lost a piece of the monitoring system. Then, some piping broke, and the monitor was not working to sense the failure. I'm PRETTY SURE that they have added some backup sensors and redone the alarm system so there won't be a repeat.
I think I might have seen that they've added some personnel procedures, so some guy has to go in and eyeball the sensor readout box daily to make sure it is still responding. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
