Part Two

The Railway Corridor: How to model, manage and visualise complex linear assets using Maximo’s Linear Asset Management and embedded GIS.

James Foley james.foley@eams-group.com

© 2014 Enterprise AMS Group Ltd

Introduction • James Foley – EAMS Director of Asset Management & Engineering

• I sit between the ‘visionaries’ (who help define AM & Business Strategy) and the

‘technologists’ (who design & build the infrastructure, systems, mobile, integration,

reporting etc) and lead the design of the business processes and implement them

into the business

• Passionate about using Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) to enable UK

Transportation to be world class

• EAMS Group is a Consultancy based in UK, US and Australia, with a major focus on

Rail Industry

• Simple mission “to enable our clients to become world class in asset and safety

management”

• Today’s case study is based on railways but the concepts are applicable to any

organisation that has linear assets

Contents

• Why we need to do this?

• The Railway Corridor concept

• What is a Linear Asset?

• How Linear Assets are modelled in Maximo 7.5

• Data Requirements

• It’s all about the Business Process

• Linear in the field – going mobile

• Visualising linear assets:

• GIS

• Metro Maximo GIS Map Tab

• Business Benefits Realisation

• Some closing thoughts

Why we need to do this?

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30130138

Why we need to do this?

Source: http://www.railstaff.co.uk/print-archive/

The Railway Corridor

The Railway Corridor is how we describe the 3D envelope that the railway runs through. It is a complex system of assets whose maintenance and performance are linked to each other but which traditionally have been modelled and managed in isolation.

The Railway Corridor

The next level of complexity – the Eastern approach to Clapham Junction Station, the busiest in the UK in terms of train movements.

What is a Linear Asset? A linear asset: • Has length & has attributes that change along its length • Can be part of a hierarchy but also uses relationships to relate it to other linear

and/or discrete assets

An asset should be modelled as linear if you want to: • Understand its spatial relationship to other assets in the railway corridor • Understand the distribution of faults along its length • Vary how you Inspection and Maintain it along its length • Visualise all of the above in a GIS and/or BIM application (ideally inside of your

EAM system) Note you could model linear assets using an EAM system’s discrete asset functionality but you lose the ability to manage the asset spatially

Line Branch Concept

Line-Branch concept: • Most linear assets form part of a network • Some lines are easier to model than others • Splitting the railway in to logical branches enables us to manage the complexity

Branch Model – The Corridor

Each level of the hierarchy has attributes that are common to it and everything below it

Plain Line Assets

The Reference System

This particular system was developed for London Underground who use a location coding system (LCS) to navigate their railway. Any logical referencing system can be model in Metro Maximo

The Previous Continuous Asset Solution

The original linear solution (world first in Maximo) dated from 2004 and was not particularly user friendly – essentially tables of data

New Linear Asset Model in Maximo Model is based on a branch approach and supports Infrastructure Asset groups:

• Track • Signals / Controls • Civil Structures • Power (Traction Current) • Stations

You can now see relationships between assets and where faults are located along the asset

Searching on Linear Assets

New Linear Asset search function Enables searching for work orders and assets between any two LCS/offset points (inclusive).

This functionality is tailored to London Underground’s LCS system but can easily be adapted to other referencing systems.

Where Roads Meet….

P&C = Points & Crossings Same as S&C = Switch & Crossings

Getting More Complex

And More Complex

Data Requirements - Simple Assets

ROAD Attributes

RUNNING-RAIL Attributes

CHECK RAIL Attributes

Data Requirements - More Complex Assets

NB These are not modelled as Linear Assets but as discrete child assets sat within the S&C ‘box’

Capturing The Data

The P&C Asset Supersedes the ROAD asset; The P&C unit ‘supersedes the ROAD asset and the system will prevents the user form raising Work Orders on the ROAD at P&C locations. When the user attempts to create a WO on the ROAD or any of its RAIL assets, where start and/or end meterage is within the length of the P&C unit such as in the example below, Maximo will display an error dialogue.

It’s All About the Business Process

Linear In the Field – Going Mobile

Functionally rich mobile solution running on a tablet extends all necessary desktop functionality into the field – these are not simple form based apps that generate basic data that has to be re-keyed into the EAM system.

Inspection Process - Review Inspection Supervisors Start Centre: Work flow forces review of new faults

Ending With Asset Register Update

When fault has been rectified, Metro Maximo prompts an asset register update. (This has even been automated for certain remedy codes)

GIS

• Map and Diagrammatic view of the railway • Linked to the live Maximo database • Searching by Location Codes

GIS • Overlay Fault Data pulled real-time from Metro Maximo • Switch to Map view with rich geographic data including OS Maps, Ariel

Photographs and punch outs to Bing Maps etc.

GIS • Overlay Fault Data pulled real-time from Metro Maximo • Switch to Map view with rich geographic data including OS Maps, Ariel

Photographs and punch outs to Bing Maps etc.

• Now take the power of GIS and put it inside of Metro Maximo • You can manage your assets and plan and schedule your maintenance

spatially in one system

Metro Maximo GIS Map Tab

• Display Faults and draw polygons around them to select a group • These faults then appear in the list tab and can be Planned and

Scheduled for completion

Metro Maximo GIS Map Tab

All within the one system

Business Benefits Realisation - 1 1. Safety – understand what assets you have, where they are and who is going to be

working on them at any given time across all asset classes.

“Railways are inherently unsafe, and it is the application of systems and controls that

make them the safe form of transport they can be”

Michael Holden, CEO Directly Operated Railways

2. Reputation – avoiding the kind of headlines shown at the start

• Keep the regulators, shareholders, employees and customers happy

3. Efficiency

• Do more work in less time using fewer people – spatial planning & scheduling cuts

travelling time

• Opportunity works in the vicinity once you have fixed the main fault

4. Asset Availability – 24x7 Railway

• Do the same amount of work in less time

Business Benefits Realisation - 2

5. Improve Asset Performance & Reliability

All asset classes managed in the same system, linear (and non-linear) relationships

are understood

6. Climate Change

Not just about the infrastructure

• Vegetation management

• Weather resilience

7. Integrated Planning and Scheduling across Asset Classes

8. Motivated Work Force

Technology that works and makes working life more productive

9. Optimising Investment Decisions (Opex vs Capex)

You have rich and accurate data fro m a single source of truth

Some Closing Thoughts

• Do establish your frame of reference and UoM early on

• DON’T design processes and systems that require perfect / complete data

• But DO design processes that encourage (force?) continuous improvement

• DON’T under-estimate the ability of good people to incorrectly complete the

most well designed Asset Register template

• DO train users in the art of capturing data, have a dedicated team of people,

implement a quality feedback loop and ideally provide a full blown mobile

application that integrates the data directly into Maximo

• Don’t retain the silos between Asset Classes

• Do take a top down approach to shared assets and understand the asset

register and maintenance interfaces

Questions

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