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Description
Mature accelerator facilities are often highly effective at restoring operation after failures, yet repeated reliance on experienced personnel and rapid technical fixes can unintentionally reinforce a reactive “firefighting” culture. At the 54-year-old Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), operational experience has motivated a broader approach: systematically converting failures, maintenance experience, and lessons learned into actions that improve long-term reliability.
This presentation describes LANSCE’s evolving integrated sustainment framework, which connects Asset Management, Risk Management, Conduct of Engineering, Conduct of Operations, Training & Qualification, and Data Collection & Analysis through a common accelerator system hierarchy.
Operational events and equipment-performance data help identify recurring problems and risks, prioritize corrective actions and upgrades, strengthen engineering and operational practices, improve documentation and training, and evaluate whether implemented actions are producing the intended results.
Current implementation efforts illustrate how LANSCE is moving from predominantly reactive responses toward repeatable, risk-informed processes that help balance immediate beam-delivery needs with longer-term reliability improvements.