Predict and prevent
Condition monitoring and predictive maintenance are changing the way in which increasingly busy railways are managed around the world.
With more and more sensors fitted to both rolling stock and infrastructure assets, the key challenge is turning the data into trusted data insights that can support improved reliability and availability.
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Register now to take part in our interactive debate, streamed live from London’s Tower Bridge Studio, listen to the presentations and pose your own questions.
In the latest live debate organised by Railway Gazette International on Tuesday July 11, a panel of high-level speakers will address the key issues:
- How far can existing rolling stock data be used to support a predictive maintenance regime, and what additional information is needed? How can the mass of data being generated be turned into meaningful information?
- Who should be responsible for developing and implementing predictive maintenance policies in a fragmented industry? What are the respective roles of the train operator, vehicle supplier/maintainer and infrastructure manager?
- What is better outsourced, what should be managed in-house and when?
- What is more important for railway operators: increased reliability and availability or lower maintenance costs? How far do the benefits of a predictive maintenance regime trickle down into other aspects of railway operations?
- Since in many markets, the rail networks consume a large quantity of energy generation, how can operational benefits such as reduced energy consumption, energy efficiency, regeneration and storage be captured in business cases?
- How far can operators and suppliers sustain R&D spending amid severe cost pressures?
- What are the more mature operators doing today? How are some of these ideas being taken off the drawing board and applied to real life?
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Tuesday July 11 2017, 12.00 to 13.00 BST
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Group Editor-in-Chief Chris Jackson joined Railway Gazette in 1982. Having held a variety of roles during the 1980s, Chris became Deputy Editor in 1991, and took over as Editor of Metro Report at the same time. He became Editor of Railway Gazette International in April 2006. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport and an Associate of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers.