Asset Management for Rail

Thales assists freight, passenger operators and infrastructure managers to address the challenges of:

• Improving in-service availability, performance and utilisation for mobile, fixed and linear assets
• Increasing reliability and punctuality whilst reducing in-service failures and delay minutes
• Minimising through-life asset costs, including acquisition, maintenance and disposal of assets
• Reducing unplanned maintenance, over-maintenance and warranty under-recovery
• Improved maintenance resource management, both in the depot and on the track

A Complex Environment

The rail transport sector is a complex and changing environment.
Thales' asset management solutions are designed to:

• Support a variety of high-speed, mainline, regional and metro services
• Address stringent safety, regulatory and security requirements
• Respond to market liberalisation and the associated demands of multiple operators with complex supply chains
• Cover a diverse and changing range of operational technology

Minimising Maintenance Costs

Thales' Enterprise Asset Management solutions minimise maintenance costs by improving:

• Field force scheduling
• Warranty tracking and recovery
• Maintenance planning
• Inventory management and stock ordering
• Instances of unplanned maintenance
• Information sharing, data integrity and data security
  

Our solutions increase asset performance by:

• Knowledge Capture: consolidating multiple sources of asset information, improving oversight of all transportation-related assets
• Best Practice: - leveraging built-in industry best practices and standardise on them across multiple sites.

Addressing Compliance

Health and Safety is significantly enhanced through better visibility of:

• Workflow auditability - confirmation of completion and asset repair/completion
• Component traceability
• Reporting and analysis of work
• Reliability tracking