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WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Meet Senior Decision Makers From
- U.K. Rail Operators
- European Rail Operators
- Global Rail Operators
With The Following Job Titles:
COOs, VPs, Directors, Managers, Team Leads & Chiefs Of...
- Rolling Stock
- Fleet
- Maintenance
- Fleet/Vehicle/Rolling Stock Engineering
- Innovation
- Asset Management/Asset Strategy
- Condition Monitoring
- Reliability Engineering
- Operations
- Depot
- Contracts
Plus Condition-Based Monitoring & Prediction Solution Providers including
- Sensors & IOT Devices - Acoustic/Vibration/Temperature
- Data Transmission Wireless/Cellular
- Data Visualisation & Reporting
- Data Processing & Analytics
- Integration Solutions With Maintenance & Asset Management
- Decision Support Services
And:
- Data Analytics & Predictive Analytics
- Automation & Digitalisation Solutions
- Green Technologies & Solutions
Menno de Glopper
Head of Operations
GVB
Please let me introduce myself, my name is Menno de Glopper from Amsterdam the Netherlands. I’m working at GVB for over twelve years now in various positions within infra and rollingstock maintenance. Currently I’m the Head of Operations and responsible for three workshops for rollingstock maintenance, supply chain and a project department. The focus of my work is performance enhancement for rolling stock in operation. In the metro network GVB has started the operations of a new line L52 after many years of construction. In this project I was responsible for the delivery of the metro vehicles to this new line. Due to intensive testing and root cause analysis the performance became very trustworthy, with limited down time for our customers / travelers. After the successful start of L52 the focus was on the rest of the metro network churching for performance enhancement by fifty percent. The rest of the network uses a variety of metro vehicles, which differ in age and technology. The latest metro is of Alstom on the platform Metropolis and has good access to operating data. I was responsible for the program to enhance the performance of the metro fleet by 50%. By using various of inputs, mostly operating data, we have been able to boost the performance and more than reached our goals. The use of the operating data has given use a much more detailed information to perform a good root cause analysis. The digitalization of the vehicles starts a new era for rolling stock maintenance and brings many possibilities for employees and exploitation.
AGENDA FOCUS TOPICS
DAY 1 - 27 JUNE 2023
Implementing Cost-Saving Innovations In Fleet Maintenance To Improve Availability
- Examine rail maintenance mega trends to enhance service, capacity, and passenger experience while lowering the cost
- Transitioning to condition-based maintenance in conjunction with classical maintenance strategies
- Taking steps to cut costs and decide how many people to hire at a time when unions are more active and industrial action more frequent
- The macro view on establishing a culture of data-driven decision-making throughout maintenance, asset management & operations
- Best practices on building the technical expertise to analyse and use data for maintenance decision making effectively
- Application of ai algorithms to automate the process of cleaning & pre-processing data, as well as detecting anomalies to save time and money
- Creating digital twins of rolling stock to simulate and analyse maintenance scenarios, identify potential problems, and optimise maintenance plans
- Digitalisation solutions that maximise ROI and cost reduction
DAY 2 – 28 JUNE 2023
Maintenance Planning For All Categories Of Fleets And Handling Obsolescence
- Revisiting the conversation on outsourcing vs. Insourcing rail maintenance in the context of escalating prices, more frequent industrial action & a driving need to reduce cost
- Addressing the challenges of cost-effectively maintaining the reliability of locomotives as they age
- Reducing energy consumption - implementing new technology upgrades & modifying maintenance techniques
- Finding solutions to address the availability of components in the supply chain
- Proactively addressing mechanical and safety-critical component obsolesce cost-effectively
- Optimising the size of the engineering workforce based on the volume & type of maintenance
DAY 3 – 29 JUNE 2023
Future-Proofing New And Existing Depots
- Cost-competitively future-proofing new & existing rail depots to ensure flexibility for evolving fleet requirements – what is needed over the next 5, 10 or 20 years?
- Upgrading existing depots to support a range of fleets & maintenance regimes cost-effectively
- Transitioning from a time interval to more conditional-based monitoring in the depot
- Optimising the depot to prioritise retrofitting that delivers the most benefit for the least cost and to ensure the required equipment is integrated seamlessly
- Practicalities of optimising the use of data in the depot environment for safe, more targeted maintenance
- Standardising workforce training across all depots using the latest virtual reality & software apps
- Prioritising investment in depot automation to reduce the cost of cleaning, essential maintenance & safety optimisation