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AUTOMAIN

AUTOMAIN. Overview of the project Henri Olink. Automain Dissemination session Paris, October 4 th 2012. What is “AUTOMAIN”?.

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AUTOMAIN

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

  2. What is “AUTOMAIN”? • 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 2011-2014 • Budget 3.8 M€, 2.5M€ EC-funding

  3. Background & challenge • The European Commission wants more sustainable transport, asks industry to facilitate the modal shift of freight traffic from road to rail by innovation.

  4. competition • Inspection and maintenance activities compete during night time with (mostly) freight traffic, there is a need to minimise needed capacity for these activities.

  5. Challenge accepted by the AUTOMAIN consortium: • 5 rail-infrastructure managers (Deutsche Bahn(D), Network Rail(GB), Societé National de Chemin de FerFrancais(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

  6. 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

  7. Project scope • Inspection with freight trains • Analysis of most time consumings processes, being grinding & tamping • Modular switches

  8. Project approach .

  9. Overall project planning • 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

  10. More information: www. Automain.eu Henri Olink, ProRail: +31 6 29598084 Thank youforyour kind attention

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