Alstom´s approach to railway condition monitoring

Alstom is a worldwide leader in rail equipment and services with experience of implementing and using Remote Condition Monitoring systems. Within the UK, this has notably included supporting maintenance activities on the West Coast Main Line fleet since 2005. Alstom´s TrainTracer tool is used on fleets worldwide, and we also implement retrofit of Remote Monitoring Systems to fleets, with references including but not limited to Classes 175, 180, 465 and 442, Sao Paulo Metro lines, X60 in Sweden and AGV for Italy´s NTV. The paper considers the merits and issues for each of event and raw data monitoring approaches, focusing on Alstom´s systems to provide relevant experience from real-world examples before discussing the optimised, intelligent approach used in Alstom´s Remote Monitoring Systems platform. The paper then proceeds to discuss integrated monitoring of the wider railway system, with particular reference to Alstom´s systems (including remote monitoring and automated depot inspections) and how these address the issues and opportunities, taking advantage of the aforementioned optimised approach.