Colin Cole
Director
Centre for Railway Technology
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Download The Latest AgendaConference Day Two: Friday, 11 October 2019
Friday, October 11th, 2019
11:30 AM CASE STUDY: What We can Learn from Freight on Condition Monitoring Through Real-Time Data for Proactive Maintenance
Condition monitoring on freight trains has developed in certain directions out of necessity These operators have been able to observe the effects of changes to maintenance quite quickly due to the high utilization of data captured on rail haul networks. The suburban and light rail context offers some different opportunities. Like heavy haul, suburban and light rail offer high utilization of assets, but are often smaller trains, stop frequently, and require passenger comforts. The environment for instruments is also very different, with better bogie suspensions (designed for passenger comfort), systems such as GPS and most importantly there is on-board power. This session will:
- Discuss current developments in condition monitoring in the freight context
- Debate opportunities for similar and diverse developments in suburban and light rail monitoring
- Review the potential of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and data management