Wire Procurement and Wire Joint Production

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Wire ProcurementandWire Joint Production

Jack Fowler
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Sense Wire Procurement

• Toshiba audit was performed in Nov 2000
• Visit included wire production and gold plating
  facility
• All was found to be in order and the wire of good
  quality
• Final pre series was being plated during the
  visit
• Final pre series received in Jan 2001
• Final validation currently being done at CERN
• Full production order to be released Feb/Mar 2001

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Wire Production Process Flow
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Plating Thickness Control
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Evaluate Cleaning Effects

• Wire samples were sent to Crane analysis
  laboratory
• Waiting on results

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Cleaning Results
30 seconds
Uncleaned
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Production and Wire Analysis Results

• Actual Wire Joints produced- 11291 single, 1190
  double
• Planned Wire Joints to date - 14000 single, 1650
  double
• Total required - 67000 single, 6000 double
• Second wire joint station online in February 2001
• Production goal 100 to 120 daily per station
• Wire meets specification based on our testing
• Get final testing results

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Wire Joint Station