1. Train Maintenance Are the current methods fit for purpose
Rail Safety Summit 2018 Simon Ellis
Global Bids Support Technical Manager
01/11/18

2. Things have come a long way…..
They are all wearing head protection!
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3. Is Maintenance Fit For Purpose?
What is fit for purpose? Fatalities and Injuries?
Passenger or workforce fatalities in train accidents for the eleventh consecutive year*
*Annual Safety Performance Report
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4. Train Maintenance Practices
Can our approach to maintenance be improved?
Train Maintenance Approach
Train Safety
Staff Safety
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5. How Technology Can Help – Minimising Risk
Door Testing – Traditional Door Testing – Future
Verify functionality & identify hidden failures
Normally between 1 to 3 monthly checks
Time at risk reduced to minutes
Actual door health and data signals drives maintenance
Minimising interference improves safety
Can be delivered using existing data
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6. How Technology Can Help – Assisting Technicians
Tooling
Human eye is powerful
However is it always
the best tool?
How accurate can we
measure?
Repetitive Tasks
Functional checks
Checking of dates
Maintenance Information
High reliability reduces frequency of carrying out replacement tasks
Highest risk to fleet safety is when systems replaced / repaired
Next generation of techs from the ‘You Tube’ generation
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7. How Technology Can Help – Maintainer Safety
Reducing Exposure – Heights
Working at heights a significant HSE issue on depot
Technology can minimise the need for such exposure
Significantly reduces operational and safety risk
Reducing Exposure – 3rd Rail
3rd rail exposes significant electrocution risks
Automated Visualisation reduces potential for exposure
Will robotics have a future?
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8. Train Design / Depot Design
‘Design For Maintenance’ improvements critical
Some can be very simple – closed and locked visualisation
Good train design minimises the risk of maintenance
induced errors
Depot Design
Plays an equal and critical role
Improving maintenance environment:
Enhances staff safety
Enhances the maintenance carried out on the train
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9. Conclusion
Train maintenance is delivering strong safety performance to date but improvements can be made
Future technology can be an enabler to help strengthen this performance further
Design for maintenance can enhance both the train and depot design to further improve safety of the staff and train
These improvements can also help deliver maintenance in a more efficient and effective manner
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10. Thank you very much!