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Asset management in the
rail industry: Quality and risk management
Marcel van Velthoven, managing director of Eindhoven-based ZNAPZ, discusses asset management challenges in rail. expected lifetime of the assets.
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support organisations to improve the quality of supports the aim of improving the quality of assets.
For the rail industry, this is a challenge, with task is to build a reliable asset register with the information needed to execute the asset strategy. With the asset register in place we can assets or asset classes?”
The quality or the perceived quality depends on the function of each asset. Overall, we expect the assets to operate safely, reliably and for a realistic amount of time. This way, the organisation can deliver the services it is expected to deliver to its customers. For the rail infrastructure, it means the network is available for the frequency and load of trains it was designed for and possibly a bit more. This availability should be delivered over the
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To make it a bit more technical, we should have a realistic ‘mean time between failure’ (MTBF) and ‘mean time to repair’ (MTTR) for all our assets. This helps to align the asset management practices to be in line with the usage of the assets.
This is an important element. Assets are
infrastructure is needed for a high-speed train than for much slower trains.
Now, having said this, it is obvious that there are many elements that contribute to the quality of the assets, and all those ‘quality’ elements of the large amount of assets in the rail industry and the physical spread, it is important that the
support asset management practices.
The risk we need to manage is the behaviour of the assets over time to comply with the quality/ the inability of an asset to deliver a function during a given period. When a risk occurs this has certain consequences, and the combination of risk and consequence is known as the ‘criticality’ of the asset.
elements: how do we value personal damage, loss of life and lack of punctuality? Each of these is an important quality element that our assets should deliver. This means that our system managing these elements should work with points. With value points, it is much easier to align all the risks that assets have when they fail against the functions we have described when we installed the assets.
beginning of our asset plan. And it is these
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