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Asset Information

Railways do not have limitless budgets. So, they often have to prioritise maintenance and renewals. This requires an accurate understanding of the condition of the assets. Equally, wear and tear encountered from day to day operation can, if left unchecked, rapidly escalate the cost of rectification and even compromise safety. So, innocuous bodyshell damage can eventually lead to severe corrosion, whilst localised wheel defects can eventually cause significant track damage. We have developed a range of services centred upon the idea of capturing your raw data and turning it into information that you can use to make effective decisions regarding the management of your assets.

As railways become more complex and greater pressure is applied on capital and operating expenditure, the effective capture, storage and interpretation of information related to the status of assets becomes increasingly important.

Railways do not have limitless budgets.  So, they often have to prioritise maintenance and renewals.  This requires an accurate understanding of the condition of the assets.  Equally, wear and tear encountered from day to day operation can, if left unchecked, rapidly escalate the cost of rectification and even compromise safety.  So, innocuous bodyshell damage can eventually lead to severe corrosion, whilst localised wheel defects can eventually cause significant track damage.

We have developed a range of services centred upon the idea of capturing your raw data and turning it into information that you can use to make effective decisions regarding the management of your assets. Our range of asset evaluation tools and databases are often used in conjunction with our auditing teams to capture contemporary information on asset condition.  We then apply our experience to interpretation of the data in order to give our clients timely repair, maintenance and renewals information.

We have also developed world-leading asset condition monitoring products, such as the GOTCHA wheel-rail measurement systems.  Not only is this arguably the least intrusive system presently on the market, but our underlying data management regime enables our clients to rectify wheel damage before it escalates to something more serious.  In fact, we can demonstrate that the cost of the system is a small fraction of the savings achieved in vehicle and infrastructure maintenance.

Asset Management

Asset management is the means used to optimally manage assets, making sure that the performance of those assets and the associated costs and risks are in line with the requirements of the business. It requires a lifecycle approach and a strong understanding of the railway sector, of which we have intimate knowledge. Find out how our services can help you.

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Fleet Asset Management

As an operator in today’s market-led railway, your business case is underpinned by the asset performance of your traction and rolling stock fleet. Getting the most out of the functionality and performance of your fleet requires the use of people with fleet management expertise throughout your fleet’s life; from specification through to operation and maintenance. Find out how our services can help you.

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Fleet maintenance, monitoring and performance

Effective performance of traction and rolling stock relies upon pro-active, timely and well-planned maintenance that reduces the risk of vehicle degradation escalating to levels which cause service disruption and increased maintenance costs. Optimising your maintenance regime requires effective real-time monitoring of your fleet and a sound understanding of the maintenance activities and schedules needed to achieve your reliability and availability requirements. Find out how our services can help you achieve this.

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PAS 55 Services

We were a sponsor and fundamental contributor to both the original development of PAS 55:2004 and its revision in 2008. In the five years since PAS 55 was first published, we have become the world leader in the provision of PAS 55 assessment and certification services, certifying in excess of 50 organisations across the globe. Find out how our range of assessment services can help you.

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Risk Based Maintenance

We offer an optimised fourth generation risk based maintenance tool, KBAI™ (Knowledge Based Asset Integrity™), through its subsidiary company KBM Ltd. The tool has been successfully deployed in the property and highways sectors, and recently KBM has started offering its expertise to the rail sector.

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PAS 55 asset management training

Our trainers are always asset managers. In addition to managing assets, they have experience in consultancy assignments with an international client base and formal assessment experience of certifying organisations against the requirements of PAS 55. This means that training courses are supplemented with discussion and debate around the interpretation of the standard and how it has been implemented in a variety of sectors worldwide.

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