Mar 2012

Maintaining Rolling Stock and Meeting

Business Objectives in the Rail Industry

Session code – 2067

Speaker Name – Koos Kunneke

Speaker Organization Title – MMIS Analyst

Speaker Company – Bombardier Transportation

Bombardier Background

Moved into mass

transit market

1942-73

Started with

snowmobiles

Moved into aerospace

European mass transit

and

emerging markets

1974-85 1986-2012

Bombardier – Facts and Figures

• A global leader in the rail

sector

• Worldwide installed base of

more than 100,000

vehicles

• Revenues $ 9.1 bn US1

• Order backlog $ 33.5 bn

US2

• Global headquarters in

Berlin, Germany

• More than 34,900

employees worldwide

Bombardier – Local Presence

Local Presence in 23 countries

Gautrain Project Background

• Reason for Train

– 8.8 Million people in Gauteng (+/- 20% of South Africa)

– 157 000 vehicles on N1 freeway per day between Pretoria and

Johannesburg

– Estimated cost of R300 million per year lost due to travelling time

– Above average accident rates

Gautrain Project Background

• Overview of Project

– 80 km standard gauge track

– 10 Stations

– 96 vehicles (24 Four car Train sets)

– Total Project cost in region of R7 billion

– Bombardier (approx):

• 760M€ construction

• 510M€ maintenance

– 15 year maintenance contract

Gautrain Project Background

• Geographical Area

Gautrain Project Background

Gautrain Project Background

• Time Line

Maximo on Gautrain • Bombela Concession Company consisting of

– Bombela Operating Company (RATP)

– Bombela Maintenance Company (Bombardier)

• Bombardier supplied Maximo and are the administrators of Maximo

within Bombela

• Deployed Multi Organization setup between the two Companies

• Operations Control Centre (OCC) create Service Requests for both

companies, but each company are only allowed to view their own

data

Maximo Setup

• Maximo setup:

– 2009 – Installed Maximo 6.2

– 2011 - Upgraded to Maximo 7.1.1.8

• Application deployment

– Maximo Enterprise Asset Management

– Maximo Asset Configuration Manager (ACM)

– Maximo for Transportation

– Syclo Mobile (Work Management)

Operational issues - Vehicle Modifications • Problems Tracking Modifications on Trains

– Many Modifications and Fleet Checks were released

– Some on all models, and some only on certain models

– Critical modifications, train not allowed to leave Depot

– Huge volumes of Work Orders to be created

• Solution – Maximo Asset Configuration Manager

Operational Process - Vehicle Modification

Create

New

Technical

Record Select

Item

Affected

Position

Select

Affected

Assets

Link

Job Plan

Work

Orders

Created

from PM

Specify

dates,

effective

from

Work Order Status

visible per

Modification using

TR Application

Select

Item

Affected

Models

PM

Created

for Each

Asset

Start

End

Operational Process - Vehicle Modification

Operational issues - Vehicle Modifications

Operational issues – AFC Software Versions

• Problems Tracking Software Versions on AFC Assets

– Overview of problem

• A TVM has got a certain software version

• Some components within the TVM also have software

• Software updates needed to be tested and deployed

• Tests were conducted at certain stations to see effect

– Some tests conducted by Engineering

– Some tests conducted by Contractor

– No proper system to keep master software versions

• Software upgrades released for a specific setup, and all

components should be on a specific software version

Operational issues – AFC Software Versions

• Problems Tracking Software Versions on AFC Assets

– Effect of Problem

• Additional problems introduced – unnecessary

• Passengers frustrated

• Negative reflection on system

• Downtime

• Solution – Maximo Asset Configuration Manager

Operational issues – AFC Software Versions

EMM

BNA

CHS

MST

Reader

Passenger

Display

Ticket

Vending

Machine

Operational Process - Software Versions

Create

New

Technical

Record Select Item

Affected Position

/ Superseding

item

Select

Affected

Assets

Link

Job Plan

Work

Orders

Created

from PM

Specify

dates,

effective

from

Work Order Status

visible per

Modification using

TR Application Select

Item

Affected

Models

PM

Created

for Each

Asset

Asset(CM)

Software Updated

Automatically once

WO Completed

Start

Create

new CM

Item

Revision

End

Operational Process - Software Versions

Operational Process - Software Versions

Value extracted from Maximo

• Vehicle

– Modifications and Fleet Checks quickly generated

– Quicker Service Readiness

– Maximo becomes the single point of asset status

• AFC (TVM)

– No more software version related problems

– Maximo becomes single point of reference for Software versions

– Engineers start to use Maximo for reporting and shows more

trust in the data

Our next steps

• Integration between Maximo and Orbita

– Train data will be downloaded via wifi connection

– Data will be analyzed using Bombardier Product – Orbita

– New Incidents will be created in Maximo via Web Services

– Status update will be send back to Orbita via Web Services

• Implementing Syclo Mobile Inventory Manager

Questions