To thoroughly test, a novel fully automated urban maglev people mover system a test track was designed and built at the company’s headquarters in Sengenthal, Germany. Here prototype vehicles are permanently tested under commercial operation load scenarios. Special attention is paid to realistic operation and maintenance (O&M) of vehicles and guideway. In addition, system modifications where components are replaced or upgraded by new versions derived from our continuous improvement efforts and engineering test are carried out. This mix of operational modes provides a challenging complexity for O&M activities. Our group took these challenges and created substantial improvements to operational effectiveness. The paper describes the system in detail, explains the lean production methodology and tools we used to create these improvements. It also quantifies the progress that was possible by these efforts, for example, the effective availability was more than doubled. Although the vehicles run on a test track, the operational mix provides an O&M complexity comparable or even beyond commercial operated systems. Therefore, the methods and results presented in our paper can be easily transferred to commercial operated systems, which is already planned.


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    Title :

    Urban Maglev Operation and Maintenance—Increasing Efficiency by Applying Lean Production Principles


    Contributors:
    Heinz, M. (author) / Zamzow, B. (author) / Bögl, S. (author) / Sommer, K. (author) / Roeber, K. (author)

    Conference:

    16th International Conference on Automated People Movers and Automated Transit Systems ; 2018 ; Tampa, Florida



    Publication date :

    2018-04-26




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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