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Validation Maintenace activities- Mälartåg

Customer: AB Transitio, Sweden

Project tasks

  • Validation of the maintenance process

Our approach

Transitio, as the owner, and MTR, as the operator of the Mälartåg trains, are responsible for validating the maintenance processes. This validation serves to complete the maintenance instructions and identify efficiency improvements in the maintenance processes. The train manufacturer Stadler is obliged to fulfil the contractually agreed specifications to ensure that maintenance is carried out to the highest standards.

The validation of the maintenance process is divided into five main phases:

  • Requirements planning and definition: This is where requirements are determined and clearly defined.
  • Definition of specifications and configurations: In this phase, the exact specifications and configurations are determined.
  • Verification: This phase serves to carefully review the previously defined specifications and configurations.
  • Utilisation: After the definition of requirements, design and qualification, which includes testing and commissioning, the utilisation phase follows. During this phase, continuous checks are made to ensure that the validated status is maintained. This is usually the longest phase and aims to ensure that the defined standards are continuously met throughout the entire service life.
  • Decommissioning: The final phase involves the orderly decommissioning of the system while maintaining the documented standards until the end.

The aim of this structured procedure is to maximise efficiency and safety.

Customer benefit

Monitoring the initial qualification of devices and compliance with defined processes during the utilisation phase are essential. This enables effective process verification, which allows potential deviations to be recognised at an early stage. In this way, preventive measures can be taken before deviations occur. This preventive monitoring and early correction make a significant contribution to maintaining the quality and reliability of operational processes.

 

     

ECM consulting & support

Customer: various customers

Project tasks

  • Kick-off workshop / training
  • Creating a mapping table
  • Gap analysisand elaboration of suggestions for improvement
  • Advice, suggestions, support on specific topics (as required)
  • Review of documents (e.g. process descriptions, procedural instructions, forms, etc.)
  • Suggestions for improvement

Our Approach

​The customer is supported in understanding and implementing the ECM requirements, whereby a gap analysis determines the maturity level of the maintenance organisation. Basic training on ECM topics can be offered in advance. In the trial audit, documents are checked, weaknesses are identified, and assistance is provided to rectify them. The certification audit starts with a Stage I audit, after which PROSE offers support in implementing the auditor’s comments. PROSE can also inspect the customer’s workshop and identify potential weaknesses before the audit.

Customer benefit

The customer is accompanied on the path to successful certification of ECM functions in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2019/779. The organisation’s existing knowledge on these topics is brought up to date. The organisation is enabled to meet the requirements and pass the audit with the certification body.

Moreover, support in the daily ECM challenges regarding:

  • Risk management according to CSM-RA
  • Competence management
  • Documentation process
  • Supplier management
  • Audit plan
  • Definition of Safety Critical Components according to Article 4
  • Interface definition and information flow between the functions
  • Independent delta assessment in order to improve the internal procedures and processes

Why support by PROSE? For saving time and money by becoming more efficient and due to lack of know-how.

 

      

Fire protection, LCC and FMECA for water cannons

Customer: Vogt AG, Switzerland

Project tasks

  • Acquisition of input data
  • Fire protection analysis
  • LCC analysis
  • Failure mode effects and criticality analysis (FMECA)

Our Approach

PROSE has created the fire protection analysis and the corresponding fire protection material list for VOGT. Furthermore, input data were collected for LCC and FMECA analyses. These data were inserted in the project-specific templates. As a result, documents were created according to the specifications of the end customer.

Customer benefit

PROSE has taken responsibility for VOGT to provide the correct input data for Fire Protection, LCC, and FMEC analyses and to create the documents by the end-customer accepted quality. This relieved VOGT of tasks that are outside their core business.

Refurbishment of X2000 class high speed trains

Customer: Stadler, Sweden

Project tasks

  • ​Overall project management
  • Electrical and mechanical engineering of the interior
  • RAMS
  • Approval management
  • Technical documentation

Our approach

During the tendering phase PROSE acts as consultant for Stadler. In the project, PROSE is responsible for technical project management, electrical and mechanical engineering, approval and RAMS. PROSE will also provide technical documentation services.

Customer benefit

Our customer benefits from PROSE’s great expertise in X2000 trains, as part of our team was already involved in the last modernisation 10 years ago. In addition, thanks to the modernisation, passengers will enjoy a completely new travel experience on board Sweden’s fastest trains – with new interiors, new seats and more efficient lighting. The availability of the trains will also be improved. The result is a train set that passengers will experience as completely new.

 

Research project for an innovative concrete sleeper

Customer: Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland

Project tasks

  • Experimental modal analysis on different concrete sleepers
  • Computational modal analysis FEM
  • Measurements in specially built test track
  • Measurements of TOR and sound radiation
  • Design and analysis of two sleeper types
  • Manufacture of sleepers by project partners

Our Approach

The new concrete sleepers were developed in cooperation with the Swiss concrete element manufacturer Vigier Rail. The existing sleeper types were first examined and analyzed using measurement technology and the parameters influencing the acoustics were analyzed.

Customer benefit

With this research project on an essential element of the track superstructure, PROSE wants to advance the industry – with less noise and simultaneously low wear and tear or lower life cycle costs. This benefit both the affected residents and the infrastructure contractors.

RAMS analysis of the Vivalto double-deck coaches

Customer: ATI (Ansaldo Breda, OFV and Magliola), Italy

End customer: Trenitalia, Italy

Project tasks

  • RAMS analysis guidelines
  • Safety analysis guidelines
  • RAMS analysis for the systems from ATI
  • Verification and validation of the systems from the sub suppliers
  • Documentation services
  • Protocol and test procedures
  • Study and analysis for CEI UNI 11170 application
  • RAMS analysis at coach level

Our Approach

PROSE elaborated the guidelines and the templates to realize the RAMS analysis. Furthermore, PROSE carried out a coach risk analysis and generated hazards (SFAS) relating to each system in the driver’s cab and the coaches.

Customer benefit

Thanks to PROSE‘s extensive experience with RAMS analyses and documentation services, the costumer was able to focus on the design. PROSE was responsible for the project management with the support of Ansaldo Breda’s RAMS office. Therefore, the approval of the RAMS documentation by Trenitalia was simplified and unproblematic. Furthermore, the Vivalto coaches are the first coaches to which CEI UNI 11170 was applied, which means that PROSE, ATI and Trenitalia can benefit from this experience for other applications in future projects.

 

Turnkey engineering for a freight wagon with sliding wall for high-speed operation

Customer: CRRC Jinan, China

Project tasks

  • Conception and development of the bogies, the car body structure and the sliding wall mechanism
  • Calculations of the running dynamics and the aerodynamics
  • Structural strength analyses
  • Preparation of component specifications, production drawings, assembly instructions and manuals
  • RAMS / LCC

Our Approach

PROSE performed the entire development process at several locations. PROSE can perform all services, e.g. engineering, design, analyses and calculations, project management etc., at several locations, which cooperate closely, but, of course, the internal communications between the various locations is also always ensured.
The manufacture and the approval tests were performed by the customer, but PROSE provided active support.

Customer benefit

Thanks to PROSE’s extensive experience with the various vehicle components at its various locations, PROSE can offer comprehensive turnkey engineering services. Our customer profits from PROSE’s know how due to the close cooperation and the mutual visits.

 

Development of a gauge-changing facility for operator MOB

Customer: Chemin de fer Montreux Oberland bernois MOB, Switzerland

Project tasks

  • Feasibility analysis
  • Mechanical and control engineering development
  • Detailed Manufacturing Design
  • Strength analysis
  • Support Approval

Our Approach

In cooperation with MOB, PROSE has developed the gauge-changing facility in several phases from a simple prototype to a complex series production system.

Customer benefit

From an early stage of the development of the gauge change system, PROSE supported MOB in approval issues. The complexity of the numerous interfaces between the gauge-changing facility and the vehicles, the infrastructure as well as the train protection systems of MOB and BLS were taken into account by PROSE through a close cooperation with the involved partners. From the conceptual design to the successful commissioning, MOB could be supported solutionoriented and target-oriented from one source.

Advice on the modularisation of a functional vehicle authorisation strategy

Customer: Plasser&Theurer, Austria

Project tasks

  • Safety assessment report
  • Efficient decision-making basis for identifying significant changes
  • Optimisation in the definition of system boundaries
  • Optimisation potential in the creation of the “Requirement Capture”
  • Optimisation of the creation of the safety plan

Our Approach

PROSE offers support for a corresponding further development and optimisation of the processes. The aim was to optimise the processes and methodologies at P&T to the extent that effort is reduced and lead times can be shortened, but always in compliance with the requirements of the CSM EU VO 402/2013. The results of the workshop, including recommendations for the further procedure, were summarized by PROSE in a short report after the workshop.

Customer benefit

In a full-day workshop, Plasser&Theurer discussed in detail the necessity of a safety assessment report, efficient decision-making bases for the identification of significant changes, the design of optimisation in the definition of system boundaries, the optimisation potential in the preparation of the requirement capture and the optimisation of the preparation of the safety plan.

Setting the standards framework for maintenance

Customer: Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems, Switzerland and Rail Vision, Israel

Project tasks

  • Definition of requirements management
  • Creation of a standardisation framework
  • Delimitation of life cycle phase
  • Obsolescence management
  • RAMS & LCC Management

Our Approach

PROSE supports Knorr-Bremse and Rail Vision within their endeavor and defines the normative maintenance framework that builds the basis for a life cycle service contract upon installation of the electro-optic sensor systems.

Customer benefit

After prototype testing is successfully completed at the end of the first quarter of 2021, the partners will examine further business opportunities for integrating these systems into rail freight vehicles.

Strategy consultancy for Common Safety Method CSM

Customer: Plasser & Theurer, Austria

Project tasks

  • Safety assessment report
  • Identification of significant changes
  • Definition of system boundaries
  • Creation of “Requirement Capture“
  • Creation of the security plan

Our Approach

In a hybrid workshop moderated and conducted by PROSE experts, questions will be discussed. Different topics like the safety assessment report, efficient decision bases and tools for the identification of significant changes will be addressed. The optimization of the system boundary definition, the optimization of the requirement capture and the optimization of the safety plan are also discussed in detail. The issues are underpinned with practical examples.

Customer benefit

Thus, processes and methodologies are optimized at Plasser & Theurer to the extent that the effort is reduced, and the lead times are shortened, but always in compliance with the requirements of the CSM EU VO 402/2013. The results of the workshop including recommendations for the further procedure were summarized by PROSE in a short report after the workshop.

 

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