glovebox design challenges with highly integrated equipment

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Glovebox Design Challenges with Highly Integrated Equipment

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Engineering | Architecture | Design-Build | Surveying | GeoSpatial Solutions

With Support From The:

Los Alamos National Laboratory


Presented By:

Bryan Spaulding

AGS Annual Conference

New Orleans, Louisiana

July 19, 2016

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Introduction

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR)

• PF-4 Equipment Installation (PEI)

• PEI-2

Includes Standard and HIGB’s

Other HIGB’s

Highly Integrated Glovebox (HIGB) Development

Tensile Frame

Rolling Mill

Hot Press

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Highly Integrated vs. Standard GB’s

Highly Integrated GB

Standard Gloveboxes


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Presentation Outline

HIGB – Lessons Learned

Communication Between Key Players

Sole Source Contracts

Equipment Vendor Under Contract

Vendor Involvement

Ergonomic Considerations

GB Fabrication Considerations

Q&A?


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Communication is King

Hold Weekly Meetings:

• System Owner/User

• Equipment Vendor(s)

• Design Team

• Schedule

Document the Communications

• Conference Notes

• Emails

• Requests for Information (RFI’s)

• TS&R’s (Technical Specifications & Requirements)

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Communication Objectives, Ensure:

Team Members Know Each Other

Key Players Work as a Team

Open Lines of Communication Exist

• People are more willing to talk with those they know.

• Increases Understanding

Objectives are being met

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Communication Objectives, Ensure:

Issues are Communicated Quickly

• Everyone hears the same thing

• Facilitates Solutions

Additional Requirements/Needs are Identified

• Design (Mechanical, Electrical, Structural, Process, ……)

• Operational (Sequence of Activities)

• Human Interfaces

• Facility

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Sole Source Contracts

Ensure Client can / will Sole Source to Vendor(s)

HIGB’s are Designed Around Specific Vendor Supplied Equipment

Key to Design Integration Process

“No Substitutions Allowed” for Highly Integrated Equipment

• Ensure Design Documents Clearly State

Ensures GB and Highly Integrated Equipment

Meets the Design Requirements

Will Function as a System

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Equipment Vendor Under Contract

Establish Early in the Design Process

Define Method(s) to Protect Info

NDA’s

Use Secure Methods of Data Transfer

Training Required to Handle the Data

Clearly Define Vendors Scope & Deliverables

Front End Design Work

Where the Vendors Design Hands off to the GB Designer(s)

Provide Detailed Design Data

• For components that must be Fabricated by an NQA-1 Qualified Fabricator

Schedule

• When do others need my info

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Vendor Involvement

Highly Integrated Equipment Vendors Must

Be Integrated into the Design Team

Be Involved in Design Reviews

Have Access to Pertinent Design Info

Provide Detailed Information on the GB Connection(s)

Integrate Safety Related Systems

• E-Stops

Pass Acceptance Testing

• Equipment Meets the F&OR’s

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Vendor Involvement

Highly Integrated Equipment Vendors May

Provide Engineering Support and Testing Oversight at the GB Fabricators Facility

Be involved in the Acceptance Testing at the Fabricators Facility

• Integrated Equipment Meets F&OR’s

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Ergonomic Considerations

Movement of Equipment Inside GB

Identify sequence of operations

• Slow Methodical Precise vs.

• Quick Gross Movement

Key to Successful Integrated Design

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Tensile Frame Glovebox

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GB Fabrication Considerations

Equipment Vendors Not NQA-1 Qualified

Components that make up the GB boundary

• Remanufactured by an NQA-1 GB Fabricator or

• Identified and Accepted for Commercial Grade Dedication

Remanufactured Components

• Vendors must provide detailed design data

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Rolling Mill Glovebox

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Hot Press Glovebox

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Q & A

Questions?