The NET Remote Maintenance Programme

The paper gives an overview of Remote Handling work for the maintenance of the NET device. It sets out to define the basic requirements and constraints on Remote Maintenance of the NET Machine and to describe the philosophy of discipline, based on a comprehensive Remote Handling Manual, to be followed to ensure successful interventions. Individual as well as general concepts for particular maintenance scenarios are presented. Specific Research and Development work completed to date or currently in hand is described. The dilemma between physical demonstration of equipment at reduced or full scale and computer simulation is discussed. Of the compromises arising, the most important is the decision to perform fully remotely all maintenance operations foreseen once during initial assembly of the Machine.