Fleet availability and reliability are key to ensuring customer satisfaction and commercial success. Alstom Transport has developed Traintracer to help deliver the high-performance maintenance solutions that operators have come to expect as rolling stock of all kinds is used more intensively. Providing depot-based operations and maintenance personnel with real-time access to train management systems has many benefits. The fleet manager is able to exploit the available rolling stock resource to the maximum. The maintenance planner can prepare forthcoming work with precision, while depot teams can start corrective work immediately as technical diagnosis is performed while the train is still in service. And specific parts can be made available while reducing overall spares requirements. At the heart of Alstoms Traintracer is the Train Control System, acting as the vehicle's information backbone and gathering data on the condition of onboard equipment. Once processed, the condition information is made available in real time to maintenance personnel. Traintracer is a system rather than simply a product, its real value lying in how the data is analysed and how this information is applied to rectify faults. Traintracer has revolutionised the way of working, as degraded mode conditions can be rectified before they escalate into actual failures in service Furthermore, it the overnight workload on a depot is too heavy, an informed decision can be made to defer low-priority tasks and leave equipment to run in degraded mode The root cause of failures can be promptly identified, including failures in operational management or human behaviour.
Traintracer spearheads maintenance revolution
Railway Gazette International ; 166 , 9 ; 185-188
2010
3 Seiten, 4 Bilder
Article (Journal)
English
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