Combined application of Product Lifecycle and Software Configuration Management systems for ITER remote handling

• Published in: Fusion engineering and design Vol. 84; no. 7; pp. 1367 - 1371
• Main Authors: Muhammad, Ali, Esque, Salvador, Aha, Liisa, Mattila, Jouni, Siuko, Mikko, Vilenius, Matti, Järvenpää, Jorma, Irving, Mike, Damiani, Carlo, Semeraro, Luigi
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.06.2009; Elsevier
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Controled nuclear fusion plants; Energy; Energy. Thermal use of fuels; Exact sciences and technology; Installations for energy generation and conversion: thermal and electrical energy; Product Lifecycle Management (PLM); Quality Assurance; Remote handling systems; Safety Engineering; Software Configuration Management (SCM); Validation and Verification; Safety Engineering; Product Lifecycle Management (PLM); Validation and Verification; Quality Assurance; Remote handling systems; Software Configuration Management (SCM); Tokamak; Divertor; Maintenance; Nuclear fusion reactor; Quality assurance; Software; Safety; Remote handling
• ISSN: 0920-3796; 1873-7196
• DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2008.11.056

The advantages of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems are widely understood among the industry and hence a PLM system is already in use by International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Organization (IO). However, with the increasing involvement of software in the development, the role of Software Configuration Management (SCM) systems have become equally important. The SCM systems can be useful to meet the higher demands on Safety Engineering (SE), Quality Assurance (QA), Validation and Verification (V&V) and Requirements Management (RM) of the developed software tools. In an experimental environment, such as ITER, the new remote handling requirements emerge frequently. This means the development of new tools or the modification of existing tools and the development of new remote handling procedures or the modification of existing remote handling procedures. PLM and SCM systems together can be of great advantage in the development and maintenance of such remote handling system. In this paper, we discuss how PLM and SCM systems can be integrated together and play their role during the development and maintenance of ITER remote handling system. We discuss the possibility to investigate such setup at DTP2 (Divertor Test Platform 2), which is the full scale mock-up facility to verify the ITER divertor remote handling and maintenance concepts.