Predictive Maintenance Management of Rail Profile in UK Rail

Preventive maintenance finds the commencement of failure and helps them in mitigating them. It can also help in uncovering hidden failures. Preventive maintenance management can be used to determine defects in rail profile and prevent them happening in future. Such system helps in identifying trends for effective and efficient maintenance of rail profile. One such way is an in depth by information analysis of rail profile parameters by regression analysis thus finding a regression model among various parameters of rail profile. Such analysis leads to significant rail track maintenance productivity gains. For effective predictions an efficient regression model is required that minimizes the prediction error. This can be achieved choosing appropriate linear regression model. Such research has the potential to bring benefits in terms of lower operating costs for rail infrastructure users, as well as improved transit times and reliability of train arrivals which results in better maintenance management.