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Ways to Improve the Performance (And Cost) of Switches

In: Intelligent Quality Assessment of Railway Switches and Crossings

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  • Jan Swier

    (Swier Advice Asset Management)

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Switches create most of the failures on the Dutch network and their impact on train service is often large. ProRail started to work together with the maintenance contractors around 2011, to significantly improve the switch performance. In 5 years they have succeeded to reduce the number of train affecting failures by more than 25% while also the maintenance costs dropped. This paper describes the improvements which led to this success. They are in the field of maintenance strategy, risk approach, design, monitoring and control. Decisive was however the renewed attention and focus on the nuts and bolts of the switches, the asset management process, the involvement of operational people and to take into account the constraints. Maintenance is people’s work.

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  • Jan Swier, 2021. "Ways to Improve the Performance (And Cost) of Switches," Springer Series in Reliability Engineering, in: Roberto Galeazzi & Hilmar Kjartansson Danielsen & Bjarne Kjær Ersbøll & Dorte Juul Jensen & Ilmar Sa (ed.), Intelligent Quality Assessment of Railway Switches and Crossings, pages 261-274, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ssrchp:978-3-030-62472-9_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62472-9_15
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