ITS Enterprise Asset Management
By their very nature, transport operations are asset intensive. Substantial infrastructures are needed to run rolling stock, fleets of vehicles, ships or aircraft. Nobody wants to compromise safety or deal with failures, so whole life cost asset management is essential.
What you need is a system or series of systems that deliver real-time information about the state and performance of your assets, while at the same time taking full advantage of your existing investments in legacy control processes – even when they’re completely manual.
That’s what we’re good at, from systems evaluation to full-blown outsourcing, whether you operate from a single location or are a widespread organisation with millions of components.
We can introduce you to intelligent infrastructure, which means that managers don’t need to plan maintenance based on theoretical performance expectations but around real-life monitoring of the components of your network. That way, you can arrange maintenance when it’s needed – not when it’s scheduled but unnecessary or too late.
This approach can also improve efficiency – such as concurrent monitoring of brake temperatures in high-speed trains . That cuts maintenance costs, typically by 20 per cent.
It also allows you to take a whole lifecycle cost approach to your assets, you can optimise decisions on capital replacement and repair.
We’re leaders in implementing geospatial techniques, where instantaneously available information is presented graphically in the context of your whole network, allowing you to plan maintenance work intelligently. We also use aerial survey techniques to complement your geospatial data, improving operational performance and reducing capital expenditure.
The complex nature of transport infrastructure assets makes the planning and execution of maintenance tasks more complicated, which is why we’ve developed the Asset & Resource Management product suite.
This includes tools for managing disruptive street works, providing a complete solution from construction planning to defining maintenance regimes and work management.
For air transport, we’ve integrated data from aircraft components to enterprise resource planning systems, which allows airlines to develop more efficient maintenance regimes. We’re also exploiting the potential of low-cost radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to transform supply chain management in the airline and rail sectors.
