Asset: Rail Switches
A Class 1 Railroad Manages Over 10,000 Rail Switches Installed Throughout The 21,000 Miles of Track. A Rail Switch is a Mechanical Installation Enabling Locomotives to be Guided from One Track to Another
Challenge:
- FRA mandates costly inspections of all rail switches
- Railroad company seeking alternative measures to combat operating expense and lower scheduled maintenance hours
- Inability to correlate environmental factors to switch failures
Results:
- Reduced train delay
- Improved locomotive velocity with efficient coordination and proper management of rail switches derived from data insight
- Modeled an FRA mandated inspection test through analysis of historical and real-time failure data correlated to work orders
- Field technicians properly notified of future failures, lowering the overall cost of operating costs
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