Reliability Management Application
for Tilting Trains
Eduardo António Silva, was awarded with the Second Place, ex aequo, in EMEF’s 2006 Innovation & Development Awards.
The first idea for the PGF4000 project came around back in 2003, when the only available instrument to register, search and control pending or concluded malfunctions in tilting trains, was the MP5 application used by EMEF and a registry file for pending repairs, archived locally at the Unit’s records.
With an unadjusted equipment structure, sluggishness in processing the malfunction registrations, and searches which were not only slow but difficult, with few criteria for selection and filtering, the MP5 was becoming less and less suited to the history management of malfunctions and repairs in CPA’s.
It was within this context that the initial development of an application for the registration, control and analysis of malfunctions took place. The application’s first version was deployed in April, 2004, at the Tilting Trains Workshop.
Main objectives for the Reliability Management Application:
To build, from scratch, an application based on the Reliability Centred Maintenance 2 concept, which could address those specific needs as well as the features the MP5 could not.
Benefits for EMEF
The timely management and planning for the resolution of pending jobs, the planning and management of personnel needed to work on repairs, significant reduction of time used by the staff in charge of Workshops, in planning interventions, or obtaining a full and detailed history of interventions within an unit’s structure and a better control of jobs pending due to their waiting for additional parts.
