Smart maintenance
Condition-based maintenance of vehicle and infrastructure
Maintenance-related costs account for a very significant amount of the Life Cycle Cost of railway systems. Optimization of maintenance activities (planning, costs, safety, availability) needs reliable software tools that support decision making based on reliable predictions of the degradation of assets.
Ad-hoc solutions
Life Cycle Cost calculation, optimization algorithms (costs, operations planning, etc.), risk and safety analysis, software tools to support decision making, formalization of maintenance procedures, predictive analysis of the condition of assets with both data-driven and physical-modeling-driven approaches. We also offer consultancy services.
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Maintenance & operations strategy:
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Formalization of maintenance procedures.
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Analysis of the impact of the maintenance strategy
on operation costs, amortization of the infrastructure,
risk of potential hazards, service availability and network capacity.
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Forensic analysis of the causes of component failure,
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Impact of new vehicles and/or operations on infrastructure damage and aging (e.g. corrugation, excessive wear, etc.).
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Auscultation data reconciliation and analysis.
Knowledge and expertise
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Vehicle & infrastructure health assessment
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Condition-Based Maintenance.
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Predictive Maintenance by physical modeling.
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Prescriptive Maintenance using formal procedures.
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On-board electronics
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Wireless sensor networks.
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Signal processing and algorithms.
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Real-time high-accuracy positioning.
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Communications.
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Energy supply.
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Back-office
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Data analysis and visualization.
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Complex data handling and simulation.
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Interfaces with other IT systems.
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User interfaces (web, tablet).
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