AUTOMAIN Overview of the project Henri Olink Automain Dissemination session Paris, October 4 th 2012

A Joint Research Project funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission  Acronym ( Augmented Usage of Track by Optimisation of Maintenance, Allocation and Inspection of railway Networks ) for a project focussed on railway maintenance and inspection  Partly funded by FP7 of the European Commission Research department  Time scope  Budget 3.8 M€, 2.5M€ EC-funding What is “AUTOMAIN”?

A Joint Research Project funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission  The European Commission wants more sustainable transport, asks industry to facilitate the modal shift of freight traffic from road to rail by innovation. Background & challenge

A Joint Research Project funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission competition  Inspection and maintenance activities compete during night time with (mostly) freight traffic, there is a need to minimise needed capacity for these activities.

A Joint Research Project funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission  5 rail-infrastructure managers (Deutsche Bahn(D), Network Rail(GB), Societé National de Chemin de Fer Francais(F), Trafikverket (SE) and ProRail(NL)  4 academic and research institutions: Birmingham(GB), Braunschweig(D), Luleå(SE) and DLR(D)  1 railway contractor, Strukton(NL)  2 railway component industry: Vossloh(F/SE) and MERMEC(I)  3 consultants: Damill(SE), KM&T(GB) and EURODECISION(F)  3 Industry organisations: UIC, UNIFE and EFRTC Challenge accepted by the AUTOMAIN consortium:

A Joint Research Project funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission Which innovations?  Exchange of best practices from within the rail- industry and a benchmark with road maintenance  Introduction of lean analysis in the rail- maintenance process  Using commercial trains for rail-inpection  Using modular infrastructure components  Automated planning and scheduling of maintenance activities

A Joint Research Project funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission Project scope  Inspection with freight trains  Analysis of most time consumings processes, being grinding & tamping  Modular switches

A Joint Research Project funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission. Project approach

A Joint Research Project funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission  2011:  Kick off meeting  Further development project objectives and evaluation criteria  Benchmarks with other industries, lean process approach  2012:  Report on (lean) solutions for inspection, maintenance and planning & scheduling  2013:  Further development  Demonstrations of project results  2014:  Project results conference  Project closure Overall project planning

A Joint Research Project funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION More information: www. Automain.eu Henri Olink, ProRail: