Title

Real Use Cases for Predictive Maintenance in Rail

Sub headings

• How to move towards, and prepare for, predictive maintenance (a checklist). As with any digitalisation project, there’s no magic bullet for predictive maintenance
• Five important steps you should follow in order to successfully deploy predictive maintenance
• Two examples of real predictive maintenance case studies in rail and our approach to each of these use cases

Bio

Christian is the founder and CEO of Railnova and a former engineering & operations director at Alpha Trains Locomotives. At Alpha Trains he oversaw a fleet of 400 locomotives across 12 countries. He previously also held a position at Alstom Transport in the service and maintenance division. Christian holds and MBA London Business School, UK, and a msc mech. engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France

Title

Using big data for network optimization

Sub headings

• Where and when is the demand for transport
• How to react quicker on demand changes
• Increase the usage of multimodal solution

Bio

Daniel Adamka is general manager of Arriva in the Czech Republic with more than 3500 employees. He studied Transportation sciences in Czech Technical University. He started as a dispatcher on railway. In the years 2002 and 2003 he worked as a transport coordinator for the regional organizator of the Prague Integrated transport, then replaced several managerial positions in the multinational company Keolis with 3 years international experience in TransPennine Express in UK as timetable manager. Between 2008 and 2010 he was head of the Czech Railways Quality department where he implemented new quality standards. He then worked as a development manager at Veolia Transport, then in the company Arriva. The CEO of Arriva for the Czech Republic became in March 2014

Title

Cargo owner services, the elastic supply chain and a sensor roadmap

Sub headings

• How value can be delivered and revenues captured from cargo owners
• What do the different industries need for their rail supply chain success
• Which sensors are coming, what can they do and what do they deliver

Bio

Co-Founder, Nexiot AG. Business Development for the EmbeddedLab, a research and engineering lab at the ETH Zurich for Physical Computing/IoT, the foundation of Nexiot AG. Industrial IoT evangelist and digital shaper.

Daniel MacGregor has over 20 years’ experience in applying technology to business needs. Since 2014 he has focused on digitisation of the supply chain. Daniel has worked for the EmbeddedLab at ETH Zurich, going on to become a founder of multi-million Swiss technology company Nexiot AG.

Daniel focuses on uncovering business needs and applying Nexiot’s cutting edge IoT solutions to optimise operations and the clients own service portfolio. This is done through an end-to-end solution from sensor, to information intelligence, to knowledge sharing. Supply chain participants can deploy IoT to differentiate their services and monetise digital insights. The philosophy is to leverage knowledge derived from big data for continuous business improvement.

Title

SBB Cargo Rolling IoT & Digital Services

Sub headings

• Rolling IoT and Automation @ SBB Cargo
• Digital Services: Turning data into Products
• Bridging the gap: From the challenge of making a difference end2end

Bio

Fabian Ringwald is a passionate digitizer with a consistent focus on strategic business success through digital transformation. As a computer scientist with an MBA, his current task is the digitization of SBB Cargo - the Swiss freight railway. In previous positions, he was successful in digital topics within the energy sector (energy trading), in consulting, in the game industry and in various start-ups. Following the sound belief, that with a lot of curiosity, based on knowledge, the world can be made a better place – Fabian is enjoying working in and with teams that grow beyond themselves, believing complexity is bearing more excitement than complicacy.

Title

Digital transmission of an On-track machine supplier

Sub headings

• Organization
• Technical solutions
• Services

Bio

Technical University of Graz; Civil Engineering with focus on Railway Engineering at Prof. Rießberger

2002 – Dec. 2012 Austrian Federal Railways, Maintenance Engineering, Track Design Engineer, head of life cycle management team

PhD on “How to reduce wear in sharp curves”

International Activities: Member of a couple of Euronorms, head of UIC working group “Under Sleeper Pads in track”

Since Dec 2012 working for Plasser & Theurer (as Senior Expert Track Technology)

Since May 2017 Director of Technology

Title

Internet of Trains – How IoT can transform rail

Sub headings

• Asset Performance Management enables new thinking for Rail
• Examples from customers, showing how analytics can help to create value
• A partner ecosystem can provide even more value towards customer

Bio

Corporate digitalization strategy for Siemens, background in IT services and strategic consulting with McKinsey & Company. Education degrees in Physics and International Relations and European Studies

Title

Building a Data-as-a-Service Platform for Asset & Maintenance Digitization

Sub headings

• Open Source Tech Stack & Architecture
• The Joy of Data Virtualization
• Live Use Case Samples

Bio

Holger Bartels studied Media Management and Interactive Marketing in Wiesbaden, Germany and Mexico City. For more than a decade he has worked with architects, data analysts and application developers and built global big data products and platforms across various industries. Since 05/2017 he is leading the asset intelligence center at DB Cargo which provides the basis for analytical intelligence use cases such as condition-based maintenance, reliability analysis, lifecycle costing and camera based damage detection.

Title

Recommendations to succeed in the digitalisation and data analysis of assets in metro networks

Sub headings

• Profits obtained and lessons learned from real experiences to build up the systems
• Organisational adaptation
• Necessary requirements to succeed, overcome fear and catalyse real change

Bio

Ignasi Oliver joined TMB in 1988 in Metro de Barcelona as engineer of Remote Control Systems department. After that he has been manager of several departments of maintenance and of projects. Nowadays he is the Director of Transit Service, of Maintenance and Projects Area, leading +200 people in a team in charge of signalling, remote control, communications, ticketing, tracks and catenary. He has been involved in the major changes in the metro network, introducing automation, adapting installations, procedures and organisational charts to the needs of the metro operation and driverless lines. His main focus has been to provide the best availability to get the best metro service with limited costs. To do that he introduced technical improvements, RAMS management, monitoring systems and the team of engineers to take benefit of it. Now is leading the change of processes and culture to get a true transformation by mean of the digitalisation.

Title

IoT, digital twins and the convergence towards a “phygital” world: a tough journey

Sub headings

• Setting the foundations: establishing a digital asset base
• Juggling with varying physical and digital assets lifespans
• Shaping a corporate wide digital culture

Bio

Jean-Cédric Bienfait is a seasoned, agile professional who blends a master degree in Business Administration with solid IT knowledge and deep, transverse business experience gained in railways, airlines, bank & insurance, energy, European institutions and various other industries.

Title

Making sense from the growth of data in the digital railway

Sub headings

• Data acquisition from large volumes of assets
• The role of analytics to generate actionable outcomes
• Simplifying the HMI in large scale and complex environments

Bio

John graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1990 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

He joined Jaguar Cars as a graduate trainee and spent 18 years in the automotive industry working in a number of senior engineering, manufacturing and product strategy roles, including a period with the Jaguar Racing Formula 1 team.

John joined the rail industry in 2009, leading the Intelligent Infrastructure programme at Network Rail, one of the most extensive applications of asset monitoring in the rail sector.

Since April 2018 john has held the position of Chief Executive Officer for voestalpine SIGNALING Fareham, the UK based centre for rail infrastructure monitoring, part of the voestalpine Railway Systems group.

As an engineer, John is passionate about the global transformation of railways through the safe, reliable and innovative application of digital technologies.

Title

Utilising IOT to improve performance in Irish Rail

Sub headings

• The challenges for Irish Rail to develop IoT in both rolling stock and Infrastructure
• A hidden benefit of our IoT development
• Outlook for the future

Bio

Jude Carey is Head of Asset Management for Irish Rail. He is responsible for developing the Asset Management Capability of the Irish Rail network in line with ISO55001 and for the development of Irish Rail’s Asset Management Information Systems. He joined Irish Rail in 2007.

Since 2011 he has been an active member of the Asset Management Expert Working Group in the International Union of Railways (UIC). This group’s membership comprises eleven leading European Railways. The purpose of this group is both to share and develop best practice in Rail Asset Management. He is co-author of the UIC publication “A guide to implementing Asset Management in Rail”.

He is a member of the founding committee of the Institute of Asset Management in Ireland.

Title

Challenges for implementing pragmatic digitalisation in CFL Multimodal, a small freight actor

Sub headings

• The visions and challenges of being a small Railway when introducing innovation
• Importance & need for pragmatic & applicable solutions due to the contraints of resources
• Capacity to transform quickly in operations the added value provided by innovation

Bio

experience in the field of freight and logistics. He worked on different positions (consulting, operational, sales and managerial) in the fields of transport and logistics services. With an engineering and management background, he had to cope with the challenges associated with the recent supply chain evolution. Especially, in the last years, with an increasing importance of information within operations besides technical and HR matters, his concerns integrated more and more the digitalisation as a key to implement new, more flexible and efficient solutions. Now in charge of innovation at CFL Multimodal, He will explain how his group handles innovation as strategic function. The main goal is to prepare and ensure the future by introducing new technologies such as IoT solutions, vision and remote control to ease operations processes as well as creating new services to enforce the business development and client satisfaction.

Title

The challenges of Digitisation in Rail, what is fact and what is fiction, a realistic view.

Sub headings

• Wrestling with the challenges with what to do with the latest IT technology
• The experience from the Port of Rotterdam with rolling out Digitisation
• What can IT do in the Rail market with Digitisation

Bio

Marcel van Velthoven has been working in the IT industry since 1986, since 1996 he worked in the area of Maintenance and Asset Management with P&L responsibility. In 2019 Marcel started AMOSA realising that many companies, especially in the Rail world have a need for an Architect, a person guiding them in the world of Asset Management and Asset Management Information Systems. He build a very seasoned team, supporting the (Rail) customers to understand why they should get involved in Asset Management and get the support of IT systems. AMOSA has many Rail customers from all over the world, who appreciate the practical approach the company and its consultants offer. Analysing the need of the customer regarding Digitisation and their ability / maturity to get involved in this kind of projects. With our practical approach we get the people on board, realising where they really are and what their journey should be in the world of Rail digitisation. AMOSA has a number of strategic partnerships with Rail IT system suppliers, to have a good understanding what the market has to offer. We analyse the suppliers with their vision and products to be best able to inform our customers what they should consider, like architects are able to offer the best materials for the buildings they design. We like to design and implement IT Asset Management systems.

Title

Overcoming the challenges of supporting a network-wide program when digitalising your operations

Sub headings

• Recognising the technical barriers that effect progression during the lengthy public tendering process
• Proof of Practice - highlighting several national deployments in Rail
• Compare lessons learned to best practices in other critical infrastructure industries

Bio

OSIsoft’s Transportation Industry Principal has a broad background in developing industrial electronics, automated control and information system software for OEM’s and enterprises. Matt has been working with leading technology firms to bring real-time operational intelligence tools to the supply chain and smart city initiatives, resulting in dozens of innovative products being brought to market.

Title

Cybersecurity in Rail – Securing the digital future

Sub headings

• Facing and structuring the challenge
• How to stay flexible with security for safety
• Crypto and Firewall – That’s it?

Bio

Max Schubert graduated as diploma engineer for electrical engineering in 2010 and started as expert for power supply for safety systems within DB Netz. 2011 he added the field of light signals and became head of light signals, electrical systems and level crossings in 2014. In this time Multi Color LED and Fiber Optic Sensing have been introduced to DB Netz AG. In 2018 he took over the lead of Requirement Management and Security for Rail Applications, being responsible for the technical setup of the starter package and the security measures for the legacy and digital safety rail applications.

Title

Digitalisation of Rolling Stock Maintenance: Not only a matter of predictive diagnostics.

Sub headings

• Brief overview of the pros, cons and state of the art of predictive diagnostics
• What else can the digitalisation bring to Rolling Stock Maintenance?
• Digitalisation success cases beyond the predictive diagnostics

Bio

Mikel Martin: Telecommunications Engineer with a continuous professional development within the rail industry (focused on real time diagnostics and early failure detection projects aimed to apply a Condition Based Maintenance). Worked initially in data analysis and train-ground communication, before taking a project management role where developed skills and experience in managing projects to help rolling stock OEMs, maintainers and operators implement CBM solutions around the world. Currently working as Chief Operating Officer within the Mobility Business Unit of NEM Solutions.

Title

Wheelsets Life Cycle Monitoring Service

Sub headings

• Prerequisites for the development of the project
• How choice about blockchain technology was made
• Architecture of the project

Bio

Mikhail (Michael) Wall is Blockchain Team Lead with 5 years of software development experience and 3 years of blockchain experience at OCRV, Russian Railways affiliated company. His team are developing blockchain based project for monitoring life cycle of wheelsets. Previously worked as a Software Engineer at cryptocurrency exchange dsx.uk. Held computer science degree from top Russian university - Saint Petersburg State University.

Title

Optimising maintenance and operation planning through enhanced asset management of a train bogie

Sub headings

• VR Maintenance is developing capability to provide bogie availability instead of bogie maintenance
• Combining real-time condition measuring with sophisticated mathematical optimization makes is possible to increase availability and decrease the amount of assets in stock
• New revenue models can be introduced both to maintenance companies and asset owners

Bio

I work currently as the VP of Digital Services at VR Maintenance Ltd, which is a subsidiary of VR Group, the Finnish railway operator. My mission is to find new ways how digitalization and data can change rail fleet and track maintenance and create more value to the asset owner. I have previously led the fleet planning at VR Group and therefore understand the complex world of rail operator and fleet owner. I have a strong development mindset mixed with wild imagination

Title

Big Data and IoT Cloud Platforms Manager at SNCF

Sub headings

• Define the strategy and the trajectory of the Data/IOT services to meet SNCF business needs
• The keys of data and IoT project success
• How the cloud and collective intelligence are accelerating the time to market

Bio

Mohammed-Simoh Labdoui is 37 years old who graduated from high school in Paris as a research and development engineer. He is passionate about data and believes in its precious value as the limitless oil of tomorrow.

In the past, Mohammed-Simoh has set up several data and big data platforms to answer the major challenges of various companies. These include Boursorama bank where the platform was used to fight against fraud in real time and to build a 360 degree view of its customers, Orange in the telecommunications sector to reduce the life cycle of treatment of the incidents of its equipment, Safran to assist with their predictive maintenance, and finally Monceau Assurances to build their property and casualty insurance software.

Most recently, Mohammed-Simoh joined SNCF in 2016 as Data and IoT Platforms Manager to help SNCF to become a data company and make its data a way to improve its robustness and fight against competition.

Title

The evolution of the diagnostic process at the Lithuanian Railways

Sub headings

• Diagnostics for track geometry
• Optimizing Big Data for smarter asset management
• Ways and approaches to overcome current challenges

Bio

Remigijus Skirkus PhD in Mechanical engineering technology science and Director of diagnostic department, Railway Infrastructure Directorate, JSC „Lithuanian railways “. Interested in:

• Data digitalization
• Data analytics
• Predictive maintenance
• Diagnostics systems

Diagnostic Department inspects and controls the quality of the track condition from substructure to superstructure, automation systems, communication and power supply equipment, prepares projects for the repair, installation and renewal of tracks, electricity supply facilities, prepares and periodically updates the technical documentation. Also, inspections of locomotives safety, communication systems and general technical condition. Department responsible for equipment metrology periodical inspection of infrastructure tools.

Title

Quantitative DAS and Machine Learning enable a quantum leep in real-time train positioning

Sub headings

• Quantitative DAS is the next evolution of distributed wayside sensing
• In combination with machine learning, this technology provides more accurate information
• Real-time train localisation, detailed information on train length and train integrity will enable new and efficient approaches for future proof train operation

Bio

Rene Zeilinger has worked in the Software Engineering industry for more than ten years as a software developer, industrial researcher, project manager, product manager/owner, and CTO. His career started after graduating in Business Informatics at the Johannes Kepler University, Linz in 2005. After several years as a software developer a return to research allowed him to learn more about software/system development processes and methods. In 2011 he applied this knowledge to lead a successful software development project in the mechanical engineering industry. In 2015 he started work at Frauscher Sensor Technology as a product manager with the focus on a new sensor system based on Distributed Acoustic Sensing. In the course of the last few years he has built up and is now leading the research and development department for this product - Frauscher Tracking Solutions FTS.

Bio

A Chartered Engineer, with a Master of Science and an MBA. A track record of delivering organizational and operational improvements in the rail industry over 21 years. Before joining ABB’s Enterprise Software division as the Transport Solutions Executive in Oct 2017, Robert held the role of London Underground Ltd’s Systems and Data Manager in the Maintenance Operation Directorate. Robert is motivated by exploiting asset management good practice and digital technology, through systems, software and data to unleash real value for customers who are responsible for Infrastructure Assets. He combines both management and technical know-how, along with a driven and enthusiastic personality and an appreciation of the bigger picture, to work with the industry to secure lasting and positive change.

Title

Intelligent Infrastructure: Delivering the data driven railway

Sub headings

• Why do we need Intelligent Infrastructure and what is Network Rail’s strategy for digitising asset performance management
• What progress has been made so far and what is coming this year
• How do we engage current and future staff to fully realise the benefits

Bio

Tim joined the rail industry in 2001, working on several asset and maintenance data roles before moving on to managing on track machine planning and maintenance performance.

In 2009 Tim moved into Network Operations Programmes, delivering the Maintenance Effectiveness Programme, including Plain Line Pattern Recognition, and leading on resolution national maintenance issues.

Tim was appointed as Head of Maintenance in July 2016, and in July 2017 took on the lead engineering role for the Network Rail Intelligent Infrastructure Programme.

Title

On-board IoT solutions applied for reliable maintenance extension of safety critical railway wheel-set

Sub headings

• Railway industry is facing challenges to increase traffic capacity while reducing maintenance cost and increase service reliability.
• Bogies maintenance represents high percentage of the train life cycle cost and wheels life have been considerably extended during last years
• Wheel-set bearings are safety critical components with fixed maintenance intervals, are becoming the limiting factor for wheel-set and bogie overhaul maintenance extension.

Bio

Holds a MPhil in Mechatronic Engineering, a MSc in Mechanical Engineering and a Master in Business Administration from IESE Business School. He is also expert designated by Spain like member of European Committee for standardization, technical committee 256 for wheel-sets and bogies working groups.

Presently he is Global Head of Condition Monitoring & Digitalization Competence Center for the Rail Industry at SKF Group. Prior to joining his current role he was Business Development Manager for Rail and other several segments like Defense and Construction Machinery Business Unit at SKF Group.

Victor has rich experience in various functions in the industry spanning several years. He also held several positions in companies of telecommunication and automotive sector, related to technology development, engineering consultancy, project management and sales development

Title

Deploying Big Data in automatic ticketing for:

Sub headings

• Fraud detection
• Identification of a passenger’s mode of transportation
• Indoor positioning

Bio

Markus Basler holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and ICT, as well as an Executive MBA. With more than 10 years of experience in the IT industry, he has worked as a business consultant for several major companies in the European market. Being engaged as a senior strategy consultant at Swiss Federal Railways since September 2014, he is currently shaping in the digital transformation of the company in his role as Director Digital Business. Markus Basler is married, father of two daughters and lives in Baden, Switzerland.

Title

Optimising Infradata and IT technology to predict and prevent failure to overcome the challenge of handling 30% more rail passengers by 2030

Sub headings

• Why the solution is not only more rails and more trains
• Why we see Geo information as strategic theme for our success
• Why a shared view is necessary in our challenge for 2030

Bio

Inge Hofland is Manager Infradata & GIS at ProRail. She’s specialized in creating functions, algoritmen and innovations with data. Managing datadriven projects with DataLab and Data & Analytics in co operation with businesspartners at ProRail. Inge is working at ProRail since 2006 fullfilling several positions like Information Analist, Project manager, Change manager and IT Manager.

Bio

Supporting Nomad Digital's business development in Remote Online Condition Monitoring and rolling stock engineering, Pedro has over 12 years' experience in rolling stock engineering, maintenance management and planning both in Portugal and in Switzerland. Involved in hands-on implementation of Reliability Centred Maintenance projects and special rolling stock engineering and maintenance consultancy projects. Pedro has a degree in Mechanical engineering from the Faculty of engineering of the University of Porto.

Title

Digitalisation of Rolling Stock Maintenance: Not only a matter of predictive diagnostics

Sub headings

• Brief overview of the pros, cons and state of the art of predictive diagnostics
• What else can the digitalisation bring to Rolling Stock Maintenance?
• Digitalisation success cases beyond the predictive diagnostics

Bio

Industrial engineer at Zaragoza University (Spain) and automotive engineering at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France). He started working in automotive sector for Renault and IDIADA but in 2004 entered in the railway sector as North America and ROW Operation Manager for CAF. From 2012 to present he has been Ingenieering Director for CAF Rail Services being highest responsible for Digital Train LeadMind, RAMLCC and Maintenance ingenieering divisions.

Due to his experience and continous formation (Artificial Intelligence: Imprications for Business Strategy (MIT Sloan School of Management), Digital Transformation Management (IE Business School), Big Data and Business (Deusto Business School) he was chosen by CAF Board of Directors to lead the Digital Transformation of the company.

Title

Challenges and opportunities of Big Data in a complex legacy IT infrastructure

Sub headings

• Our challenge: optimally connecting numerous different data sources to our legacy systems
• We can only rise to the challenge through more cooperation and collaboration
• Agile product development is both a possible solution to this and a great opportunity

Bio

My current position is Head of Digitalization (CIO/CDO). Having defined the 5-year digital transformation strategy for the company, my team and I are now implementing this program with a focus on process & technological redesign of Rail Cargo’s entire business model while safeguarding the continuity of the existing IT landscape as well as allowing for continuous improvement during the transition phase. The key factor is our combined strategic top-down and operational bottom-up approach to get people involved in cross-functional teams in an agile environment. Prior to this role, I held various positions within the Rail Cargo Group related to process management, allowing me to develop a strong perspective on how to improve cross-business unit collaboration. I hold a degree in mechanical engineering and business administration from the RWTH Aachen, Germany and I am an active mentor for women in technical and managerial roles.

Title

Condition Based Maintenance and the importance of Actionable Information

Sub headings

• Data acquisition and large number of Rail assets and the importance of understanding your data
• Case studies showing how Condition Based Maintenance can create value, operational efficiencies and savings
• How Condition Based Maintenance informs our Condition Based Supply Chain, creating a Digital dynamic supply chain of the future

Bio

Dr David McGorman, is the Managing Director of Instrumentel Ltd, a British company that specialises in precision electronics and telemetry, including Condition Based Predictive Maintenance. With significant experience in the management of technology companies and a strong technical background, David has a proven track record of delivering strategic projects within harsh and difficult to access environments, including the Rail Industry. Instrumentel is part of Unipart Rail which addresses the challenges of the rail industry across the asset lifecycle by working collaboratively with its partners to deliver technology and supply chain solutions that improve performance, reduce risk and optimise cost. David is also Unipart Rail & Manufacturing Group Technology Managing Director. As Managing Director David is responsible for the performance of Instrumentel Park Signalling and Metlase. David also has responsibility for all Digital activity across Rail and Manufacturing Group, and works closely with the Unipart Digital team.

Bio

With a background in Geoscience & Geoinformatics, Dennis has worked with management and development of data & analytics in the public sector for more than 20 years. Dennis’ Department (Data & Digital) has a leading and coordination role in the digital transformation in Rail Net Denmark.