SALT tracker upgrade utilizing aerospace processes and procedures

Raoul Van Den Berg; Chris Coetzee; Ockert Strydom; Janus Brink; Keith Browne; Eben Wiid; Wouter Lochner; Grant Nelson; Paul Rabe; Martin Wilkinson; Vic Moore; Adelaide Malan; Jonathan Love; Anthony Koeslag

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SALT tracker upgrade utilizing aerospace processes and procedures

Raoul Van Den Berg, Chris Coetzee, Ockert Strydom, Janus Brink, Keith Browne, Eben Wiid, Wouter Lochner, Grant Nelson, Paul Rabe, Martin Wilkinson, Vic Moore, Adelaide Malan, Jonathan Love, Anthony Koeslag

SALT Foundation

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The SALT Tracker was originally designed to carry a payload of approximately 1000 kg. The current loading exceeds 1300 kg and more instrumentation, for example, the Near-Infrared (NIR) arm of the Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS), is being designed for the telescope. In general, provision also had to be made to expand the envelope of the tracker payload carrying capacity for future growth as some of the systems on SALT are currently running with small safety margins. It was therefore decided to upgrade the SALT Tracker to be able to carry a payload of 1875 kg. Before the project "Kick-Off" it became evident that neither SALT nor SAAO had the required standard of formal processes and procedures to execute a project of this nature. The Project Management, Mechanical Design and Review processes and procedures were adopted from the Aerospace Industry and tailored for our application. After training the project team in the application of these processes/procedures and gaining their commitment, the Tracker Upgrade Project was "Kicked-Off" in early May 2013. The application of these aerospace-derived processes and procedures, as used during the Tracker Upgrade Project, were very successful as is shown in this paper where the authors also highlight some of the details of the implemented processes and procedures as well as specific challenges that needed to be met while executing a project of this nature and technical complexity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VII
Editors	Philippe Dierickx, George Z. Angeli
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510602014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231559
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VII - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 26 Jun 2016 → 28 Jun 2016

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	9911
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

Conference

Conference	Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VII
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	26/06/16 → 28/06/16

Keywords

Circular Cable Handler
Hexapod
payload
Processes and procedures
Project Management
SALT
Tracker Upgrade

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Van Den Berg, R., Coetzee, C., Strydom, O., Brink, J., Browne, K., Wiid, E., Lochner, W., Nelson, G., Rabe, P., Wilkinson, M., Moore, V., Malan, A., Love, J., & Koeslag, A. (2016). SALT tracker upgrade utilizing aerospace processes and procedures. In P. Dierickx, & G. Z. Angeli (Eds.), Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VII Article 99111J (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9911). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231559

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Van Den Berg, R, Coetzee, C, Strydom, O, Brink, J, Browne, K, Wiid, E, Lochner, W, Nelson, G, Rabe, P, Wilkinson, M, Moore, V, Malan, A, Love, J & Koeslag, A 2016, SALT tracker upgrade utilizing aerospace processes and procedures. in P Dierickx & GZ Angeli (eds), Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VII., 99111J, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 9911, SPIE, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VII, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 26/06/16. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231559

SALT tracker upgrade utilizing aerospace processes and procedures. / Van Den Berg, Raoul; Coetzee, Chris; Strydom, Ockert et al.
Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy VII. ed. / Philippe Dierickx; George Z. Angeli. SPIE, 2016. 99111J (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 9911).

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