• DocumentCode
    870761
  • Title

    Passenger rail vehicle depot-level electronic maintenance

  • Author

    Brown, Bill

  • Author_Institution
    SEPTA
  • Volume
    11
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    10/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    8
  • Lastpage
    11
  • Abstract
    Capital-intensive companies and organizations that purchase long-life industrial equipment, such as the transit agencies and railroad companies, often have language in their procurement specifications that define the useful life of the equipment and the necessary tools and equipment to maintain their defined life-cycle. However, if the organization is not structured around life-cycle maintenance then these long-term objectives will surely become just an unrealistic hope.
  • Keywords
    life cycle costing; maintenance engineering; procurement; railways; capital-intensive companies; life-cycle maintenance; long-life industrial equipment; passenger rail vehicle depot-level electronic maintenance; procurement specifications; railroad companies; transit agencies; useful life; Circuit testing; Contracts; Databases; Electronic equipment testing; Inspection; Instruments; Printed circuits; Rails; Surface-mount technology; Vehicles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1094-6969
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MIM.2008.4630737
  • Filename
    4630737