SRTC Conference Focus

Rail Digitalisation

Rail operators around the world are facing growing demands and challenges to bring about a more reliable service in relation to their aging systems, higher customer expectation, limited engineering hours, and scare resources. In addition, as rail systems become more complex there is an imminent need to leverage on digitalization to gain an upper hand on assets and system readiness management in terms of better optimizing resources, drawing deeper insights into system faults, highlighting blind spots, recommending remedial actions and to the extent of pre-empting the occurrences of defects.

Rail Asset Management Excellence

Innovation precedes evolution, and therefore marks the way forward for most Asset Management leaders. To innovate organisations constantly need a deeper understanding of how to prioritise investments; whether in risk assessment, carbon reduction, condition monitoring, data management and quality, or user satisfaction. With the tidal wave of Big Data, IoT, cyber-physical system in view, the rail sector is set to change on how it strategizes and optimizes asset whole-life cycle performance.

Rail Digitalisation

Rail operators around the world are facing growing demands and challenges to bring about a more reliable service in relation to their aging systems, higher customer expectation, limited engineering hours, and scare resources. In addition, as rail systems become more complex there is an imminent need to leverage on digitalization to gain an upper hand on assets and system readiness management in terms of better optimizing resources, drawing deeper insights into system faults, highlighting blind spots, recommending remedial actions and to the extent of pre-empting the occurrences of defects.

Rail Asset Management Excellence

Innovation precedes evolution, and therefore marks the way forward for most Asset Management leaders. To innovate organisations constantly need a deeper understanding of how to prioritise investments; whether in risk assessment, carbon reduction, condition monitoring, data management and quality, or user satisfaction. With the tidal wave of Big Data, IoT, cyber-physical system in view, the rail sector is set to change on how it strategizes and optimizes asset whole-life cycle performance.

Rail Operation and Maintenance

The transportation sector, especially railways and metro have largely adopted Industry 4.0. The use of smart technologies is leading to improve quality of services, safety assurance, new savings, enhance resource utilisation and efficiency. This segment takes a closer look at how digitalisation and automation as a huge maintenance lever, new entrant technology that will re-shape the sector’s operation and maintenance ecosystem and how individual companies can benchmark frontier players, prepare effectively for capturing value from the new opportunities.

Rail Asset Renewal and Upgrading

Asia has some of the longest, busiest but also oldest rail networks. Utilisation of existing rail systems and the harsh reality of the underperformed, aging first-generation trains have definitely heighten awareness about the need for asset renewal and upgrading exercise. Timely and soundly calculated investment in asset upgrades not only ensure reliability and efficiency but also keep the train functioning to the highest international standards – in safety, convenience and comfort – which is crucial in today’s very globalised and sophisticated travels. Beyond the prominence and buzz of the latest digitally enabled maintenance and operation regimes, here is a less visible – but equally important – aspect on upping the rail performance by replacing and rejuvenating assets for long term gains.

Rail Operation and Maintenance

The transportation sector, especially railways and metro have largely adopted Industry 4.0. The use of smart technologies is leading to improve quality of services, safety assurance, new savings, enhance resource utilisation and efficiency. This segment takes a closer look at how digitalisation and automation as a huge maintenance lever, new entrant technology that will re-shape the sector’s operation and maintenance ecosystem and how individual companies can benchmark frontier players, prepare effectively for capturing value from the new opportunities.

Rail Asset Renewal and Upgrading

Asia has some of the longest, busiest but also oldest rail networks. Utilisation of existing rail systems and the harsh reality of the underperformed, aging first-generation trains have definitely heighten awareness about the need for asset renewal and upgrading exercise. Timely and soundly calculated investment in asset upgrades not only ensure reliability and efficiency but also keep the train functioning to the highest international standards – in safety, convenience and comfort – which is crucial in today’s very globalised and sophisticated travels. Beyond the prominence and buzz of the latest digitally enabled maintenance and operation regimes, here is a less visible – but equally important – aspect on upping the rail performance by replacing and rejuvenating assets for long term gains.

Rail Operation and Maintenance

Continued from previous session

Signalling and Communications

Nowadays, the use of wireless and internet technologies is increasing in the railway and metro systems enabling bidirectional vehicle-to-ground communications. New signalling and communications solutions such as CBTC are here to alter how trains operates. However the biggest challenge is managing risks associated with the introduction of a new state-of-art CBTC signalling technology over an operating railway which might have been running well for decades. Hence understanding critical operation functions is key when deploying CBTC in defining the right requirements and solutions.

Rail Operation and Maintenance

Continued from previous session

Signalling and Communications

Nowadays, the use of wireless and internet technologies is increasing in the railway and metro systems enabling bidirectional vehicle-to-ground communications. New signalling and communications solutions such as CBTC are here to alter how trains operates. However the biggest challenge is managing risks associated with the introduction of a new state-of-art CBTC signalling technology over an operating railway which might have been running well for decades. Hence understanding critical operation functions is key when deploying CBTC in defining the right requirements and solutions.

Rail Operation and Maintenance

Continued from previous session

Signalling and Communications

Continued from previous session

Rail Operation and Maintenance

Continued from previous session

Signalling and Communications

Continued from previous session