Entity in Charge of Maintenance

With Rail Engineering, you develop and manage vehicle and component structures according to standards - the level of detail is in your hands.

Usage restrictions can be assigned to individual vehicles, or even vehicle series, which are forwarded to the RUs together with the vehicle file.

A technical dossier is kept for each vehicle and component series. This describes the required maintenance plans as well as the technical measures and activities for the maintenance, repair and overhaul of the vehicles or their components.
The ECM2 specifications, including possible checklists, are thus managed centrally and distributed to ECM3 and ECM4 via a release and rollout procedure.

The documentation concerning the rail vehicle converges in a so-called asset biography, which, in addition to the maintenance history, also contains all events related to the rail vehicle during its life cycle.
Damage code catalogs are used to achieve a uniform information structure for the technically qualified recording and categorization of technical and operational reports.

The technical dossier places particular emphasis on the safety-critical parts of the component series. The Rail Solutions enable continuous monitoring and structured further development of the safety-critical components.

The software solution allows you to manage master data, which includes not only vehicle data, but also the qualifications and training of personnel stored in the system. You can add the required qualifications for each maintenance process.

The dashboard provides you with the insight you need into the fleet. In addition, the combined use of Rail Asset and Rail Workshop enables analysis of movement data (damage reports, maintenance, checklists, sensors) at series level.

The planning, initiation, execution and evaluation of technical tests on vehicle or component series are mapped in a structured manner. The test results are available as a database for subsequent modifications, roll cures or modifications and can be transferred in whole or partially to vehicles for implementation in series production.

Rail Asset focuses on the rail vehicle and its components. This also includes the management and monitoring of safety-critical components. By maintaining master and movement data, conclusions can be drawn about future maintenance requirements and thus workshops can be commissioned in a timely manner.
The networking and provision of sensor data at vehicle and component level provides the responsible parties with an even better insight into the condition of the asset.

In Rail Asset, managers can manage both maintenance notifications (preventive and corrective) and maintenance types according to manufacturer specifications. This information can thus be made available to the workshop when the order is placed.

All maintenance activities carried out are recorded in the asset biography for traceability (repairs, modifications, etc.). In addition to the maintenance activities, the performance data of rail vehicles and components are also managed and documented there. In this way, the entire life cycle of the vehicle is mapped in the asset biography.

The Wheelset Management module is a supplement to Rail Asset that monitors, manages and documents wheelsets professionally and in compliance with standards (EN 15313). Through the partnership between NextSense GmbH and Boom Software, you benefit from a predictive wheelset management that supports you in planning and eliminates challenges in wheelset management.

Users can manage and monitor the usage restrictions assigned to the vehicle.

Workshops including their certification are stored in the master data. When commissioning maintenance measures, the right workshop with the right qualification can be selected.

By linking Rail Asset with Rail Workshop or by means of an integrated workshop portal, orders and the associated documentation incl. operational release can be forwarded at the push of a button.

Dashboard and evaluation functionalities enabled at series level provide the required overview for further planning.

With the digital order confirmation, the workshop also receives the maintenance specifications according to ECM2 (work processes, work plans, checklists, spare parts, tools, and qualifications). These specifications are made available to the service technicians on their end devices so they can process the orders according to the specifications.

Rail Workshop is a planning tool that significantly increases efficiency in the company. It offers the possibility of management, planning and resource allocation according to customer order and in compliance with ECM2 specifications. Functions such as graphical layout on track occupancy plans or interfaces to measuring devices provide further support in this area.

With Boom Software solutions, you manage not only vehicles and their components, but also the company‘s operating equipment. This includes not only resource planning but also maintenance monitoring and control.

No matter where maintenance activities are carried out - at the plant site or on the field - service technicians carry out order processing on the move and with the support of digital checklists.

Rail Workshop enables simple and complete documentation, on the one hand by technicians documenting their activities on mobile devices, and on the other hand by interfaces to any measuring devices, whereby the measured values are assigned directly to the vehicle as part of the order.
To ensure consistent and complete documentation, the software solution offers the integration of checklists for the respective work processes.

Certain maintenance activities require certain competencies. These competencies are managed in the master data. Personnel planning per order is made much easier for the workshop manager with Rail Workshop, as he can see the qualifications of the individual employees in the software solution and thus assign the appropriate and available resources to the orders.

Since the documentation is done digitally, all information is summarized in one file and sent to the customer together with the operational release.

Visualization of workload and work progress is provided by a workshop monitor.
The workshop performance itself can be monitored by dashboard and evaluation functionalities.