[Bteam] Request for B-Team help and support

[Noel Okay]

B-Team Colleagues,

It has become apparent that we can do a better job of verifying a good 
machine setup after any SAD or extended accelerator down period. Right 
now, Operations relies mainly on the successful execution of the Optics 
Restoration and Finalization Procedure (ORFP) to define what a "good" 
setup is. My concern is that there are other important--or what I'll 
call "expert" machine parameters--not captured in the ORFP that can 
affect the final outcome. The process of "setting up" the machine 
usually takes several shifts and progresses from a rough spin up to a 
final tune of the beam transport and optics. This extended process, 
coupled with the range of experience for both the Ops and on-call staff, 
can result in a less than desirable setup that can sometimes come back 
and bite us days later.

I ask the B-Team for help with this issue, first by performing a 
thorough review and update of the ORFP procedure, and second, by 
developing a final verification process for checking the beam transport, 
machine parameters and optics setup. I believe it is important that 
Optics On-call be an integral part of the final "blessing" of the 
machine setup to provide an overall check and address any of the subtle 
expert issues that can impact beam transport.

Noel