railcar integrated maintenance suite (rims) copyright © 2012, arkansas industrial computing, inc

Railcar Integrated Maintenance Suite (RIMS)

Copyright © 2012, Arkansas Industrial Computing, Inc.

RIMS Features

• Associate railcar components to the car

• Register reconditioned components

• Capture truck components at the build station

Current CEPM Components

Component Association Schedule

Description Date

2012

Wheelset Association Required July

Side Frame and Bolster Registration Allowed June

Side Frame and Bolster Association Allowed August

Coupler Registration Allowed December

2013

Wheelset Association Required January

Side Frame and Bolster Association Required July

Coupler Association Required December

RIMS Association Overview

• Associate Components to Equipment• Wheelsets• Side Frames• Bolsters• Couplers

• Uses Railinc's Repair Web Service• Meets CEPM Requirements• Registers components

RIMS / Railinc Web Services

• Power house for all applications

• Runs in Background

• Reports Association to Railinc

• Real Time Response

• No CSV Uploads

• Uses Railinc Web Services• Repair

• Registration

• Query

RIMS Association Service

RIMS Registration Service

Car Manager

• Desktop application to manage all data collected in the shop

• Mobile computer for shop data collection

• Manages Equipment Association Status

• Associates Components to Equipment• Wheelsets, Side Frames, Bolsters, Couplers

• Captures Equipment Data• Type, truck count

• Registers Components

Car Manager - Association

Click submit to send associations to Railinc

Car Manager

Add/EditEquipment as it arrives

in the shop

Create New Equipment Types

Once


Manually enter CID or use Mobile Association Data Collection


Click here to see association status

Car Manager – Association

Works with multi-unit Cars

Association – Mobile Data CollectionScan AEI Tag or Manually Enter

Equipment Number

Assocation - Mobile

Select component to

associate

Select Equipment

Scan or enter component ID

Scan AEI Tag with RFID Reader

Manually Enter Equipment ID

Stores component ID in the RIMS Database for Association to the Equipment at a later time

RIMSDatabase

Car Manager – Car Arrival

Automatically populates the Equipment and marks it as “In

for Repair”

Truck Builder

Non-AAR Truck Work-in-Progress Label

Each truck will have 5 CID Labels initially

Component ID labels are not easily accessible after the truck is under the car

Truck Builder• Some truck components are inaccesible when the truck

is placed under the car

• Enter truck component ID's as the truck is assembled

• WIP Label is applied to truck which is associated with all truck components

• When the Truck is associated with the car then all truck components are associated automatically

• Individual components are associated automatically by RIMS

• Allows entry of SF/B data not required by CEPM

Truck Builder Station


Truck Work-in-Progress Label

• Yellow color to differentiate it from other AAR labels

• Placed on a side frame at an easily accesible location

• Uses XML (like wheelset components)

• 2D Data Matrix Symbology

• Uses new proposed 2D component ID label format


<component>

<componentType>Truck<componentType>

<componentID>GBRX</componentID>

<componentNumber>0123456789</componentNumber>

</component>

Truck WIP Label Data Format


CASTINGS

Registration of Reconditioned and New•Side Frames•Bolsters•Couplers

Side Frames – Required Data


Side Frames

company Code company Code

idNumber idNumber

C501 AAR Foundry Facilicity Code

C502 Cast Month

C503 Design Feature Code

C504 AAR ID Code

C505 Pattern Number

C506 Drawing Number

C507 Drawing Number Revision

C508 Serial Number

C509 Heat Number

C510 Heat Treat Load Number

C511 Reconditioner AAR Facility Code

C512 Cast Trademark

C513 Classification / Reconditioned Date

C514 Condition Code

C515 Column Wear Plate InstaledC516 Nominal Wheel Base

C517 Button CountC518 Cast Year

Bolsters – Required Data


Bolsters

company Code company Code

idNumber idNumber

C401 Facility CodeC402 Cast Month

C403 AAR Design Feature Code

C404 AAR ID Code

C405 Pattern Number

C406 Drawing NumberC407 Drawing Number Revision

C408 Serial Number

C409 Heat Number

C410 Heat Treat Load Number

C411 Reconditioner AAR Facility CodeC412 Cast TrademarkC413 Classification / Reconditioned DateC414 Condition CodeC415 Pocket Wear Plate InstalledC416 Converted BolsterC417 Cast Year

Couplers – Required Data


Couplerscompany Code company Code

idNumber idNumberC601 Condition CodeC602 AAR Code NumberC603 Catalog NumberC604 Cast MonthC605 Cast YearC606 Serial NumberC607 Cavity NumberC608 Conditional ApprovalC609 AAR Facility CodeC610 Heat NumberC611 Heat Treat Load NumberC612 Reconditioner AAR Facility CodeC613 Classification DateC614 Reconditioned Heat Treat Load NumberC615 Reconditioners Tag

Castings Registration

• Collects casting CEPM data in the shop

• Saved for review before registering with Railinc

• Recall and review old casting data

• New registrations

• Modify a registration

• Delete a registration

Reconditioned Castings Registration


Car Manager – Component View

Industrial Enclosures for Truck Builder

• Sealed to NEMA 4 standards (dust and water)

• Internal cooling with heat sink

• 3 – Year manufacturer warranty for monitors

• Over

RIMS Future Releases

• Inspectionso Brake Testso Reflectorization (decal)o Car Grade

• Associationso Brake Systems, Cushioning Units, etc

Questions?

railcar integrated maintenance suite (rims) copyright © 2012, arkansas industrial computing, inc

Documents

car slide

equipment number slide

railinc slide

cepm slide

association status slide

repair slide

truck components

rims association service