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In a research Institute equipped with Particle Accelerators, the control room (CTRM) can be considered as the nervous central system of the accelerators. This is therefore the place where a lot of information circulate. If furthermore, the CTRM works 24/24, the information must flow correctly through the different teams of Operators on shift-work. An erroneous communication may lead to safety issue. In your Institute, which kind of information or instructions flows through the CTRM ? How do you keep track of it ? How can you retrieve it days later ? Is anyone authorized to call to the CTRM to provide instructions or do you have a bottleneck to filter the information provided to the Operators ? Can anyone outside the Control Room access the CTRM e-logbook and write instructions to be done ? Are your Users authorized to call the Control Room to get or provide information ? Once the information has reached the Control Room, how do you make sure that all teams working in shift will be aware ? How do you communicate to the Users / customers using the beam ? Do you have different channels depending upon the emergency ? As Operation Manager, do you organize regular meetings to communicate internally (with the Operation Group or within Accelerator Division) or externally (others Divisions or outside your Institute) ? Have you had already safety issues or incident following a gap in communication ? All topics linked with Communication within, from and to a Control Room or the Operation Group will be welcome!

This session is aimed to discuss unique operation problems arisen from running accelerators for medical, industrial and non-research applications. Since these accelerators are operated mostly by small organizations, operators need to handle all aspects of the accelerator facility without sufficient technical support. How do you gain and keep enough knowledge and skills to run the machine?

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This session is an opportunity for all workshop participants to share their ideas and solutions that may not want or have a chance to give a presentation. Posters can address any of the topics from the oral sessions, or describe any unique contributions can share with the attendees.

Most of the important tools that are used daily in our control rooms are provided to the operators by other groups. Not all of them are optimally designed to meet our needs and it often takes a lot of coordination and convincing to subsequently adapt them to our requirements. In this session, we will focus on the operators' contributions to their own toolbox. Which software projects for control, monitoring or beam diagnostics have been implemented or initiated by operators? Which self-developed helper tools have increased efficiency in operation? Are there any operator projects that go even deeper and have had an influence on the specification of hardware components installed in the accelerator?