Alan H. wrote :
>The manpower problem is not that no-one is willing to do it, but just
>that we don't have many scientists at ILL - 52 total for 25+ machines.
>This means 2 (including me) for each of our 2 main powder diffractometers,
>with 2-3 different user groups on each machine, each week ! And our
>machines run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in cycles of 50 days
>for 225 days/year :-)
Thanks to these details I can suggest exactly how more man/womanpower
can be obtained at ILL ;-).
OK, 25+ machines running 225 days/year. Expenses are taken in
charge for 2 persons on each experiment if those persons come
from 2 different labs (encouraging collaboration, thanks you).
Suppose that those 2 persons are not necessary, due to automatic
machines, in half of the cases (nothing possible to do without
them in the other half). Then the total of (days x persons) useless
expenses is : 5650. Suppose that one (day x person) cost is
US $ 200 (1000 FF), because you should include the travel.
ILL can save roughly 1.130.000 US $ per year (5.650.000 FF).
This could allow the recruitment of 20 technicians (do not need
to be scientists) that would survey the automatic machines, allowing
more time to ILL high level scientists to admire mountains.
How easy is managing !:-)))
Best,
Armel Le Bail - Universite du Maine, Laboratoire des Fluorures,
CNRS ESA 6010, Av. O. Messiaen, 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France
http://www.cristal.org/
