General OverviewDecision Support System for Railway Infrastructure Maintenance & Renewal Management
The railway infrastructures consists of a great number of objects, of different age, type and manufacture, submitted to different volumes and types of detrimental influences, primarily railway traffic, as well as reacting differently to different types of remedial activities performed with different qualities. As a matter of facts, each single railway organization has the same objectives:
In order to address such objectives railway asset managers require proper asset Maintenance and Renewal (M&R) planning and control. Controlling and planning of railway M&R activities involves several highly interrelated aspects such as Infrastructure Monitoring, Railroad Engineering and Information Systems. This necessitates a proper process and systems to cover comprehensive data management and analyses for decision support. In order to enable more efficient and effective maintenance, the process should allow to shift the existing Maintenance Management concept from today’s predominantly corrective, prescriptive and cycle-based to the tomorrow’s one being preventive, predictive and above all condition-based. Leading railway companies around the world choose RAMSYS solution to enhance M&R Copyright © 2009-11 MERMEC Group - All right reserved C.F./P.IVA 05033050963 |
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