Railway maintenance support
Our experience
Enhance your internal maintenance processes through proven techniques and best practice from across the rail sector.
Day-to-day rail operations rely on proactive, timely and well-planned maintenance regimes. Our experts will support you in implementing the latest models and best practices that are not only crucial for maintaining asset condition to meet RAMS KPIs, but can also help improve utilisation, extend asset life, and prevent rising costs.
Our support utilises data-driven techniques such as condition based maintenance, coupled with applying best practice RAMS (reliability, availability, maintainability and safety) techniques, to help asset owners develop resource-optimised plans that meet operational needs.
We will guide your teams in identifying operational priorities, defining objectives and designing work programmes, and remain available to provide all the additional skills required to implement change across maintenance teams and supply chains.
Projects
Paris Metro - Energy Usage Calculations
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Saudi Arabia Railways Locomotive Maintenance Plans
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Amsterdam Metro
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- Apply the latest maintenance models, including Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM3)
- Maintenance regime optimization to enhance asset utilization, improve RAMS KPIs, and achieve cost savings simultaneously.
- Risk-analysis methodologies, including obsolescence analysis on spare parts
- Implement data-driven techniques such as condition-based maintenance, including planning, support and developing business cases
- Perform reliability and maintenance analysis on rolling stock performance and operational processes
- Conduct maturity-level assessments, including gap analyses on maintenance strategy, plans and processes
- Sector-leading vehicle damage detection and diagnostic systems
- Fleet auditing to monitor asset condition and defects, allowing you to do proactive maintenance and repair
Why choose Ricardo
With our support, you will be able to closely balance maintenance costs with rolling stock RAMS performance - leading to notable improvements in the reliability and availability of vehicles.
Other benefits include:
- Lower overheads
- Reduced in-service delays, resulting in better patronage and stronger financial performance
- Cost-effective modifications and greater efficiency in operating processes
- New insight into possible longer-term improvements
- The potential to extend the life of rolling stock through optimised maintenance.
Condition Based Maintenance
Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) is a strategy for undertaking maintenance tasks based on the condition of a system or component, rather than following a fixed window or mileage-based regime.
It is an evolvement in maintenance maturity that can deliver:
- Increased asset availability
- Improved reliability
- Faster problem diagnosis
- Reduced maintenance costs
Moving from a ‘classical’ maintenance approach - such as Reactive and Preventive - to CBM requires a combination of operational knowledge and experience in condition monitoring and data management workflows.
Whether for fleet management or track infrastructure, we'll help you determine current asset maturity levels and organisational processes, then guide you through defining your strategy, objectives and development roadmap, implementation of hardware and software, and the introduction of a validation regime.
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