Periodic Reporting for period 4 - IN2SMART2 (Intelligent Innovative Smart Maintenance of Assets by integRated Technologies 2)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2023-01-01 do 2023-09-30
This project addresses the S2R-CFM-IP3-01-2019 “Intelligent asset management finalisation” call, launched by the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking (S2R JU) as a continuation of the work initially carried out through the In2Rail (GA 635900) “lighthouse project” and mainly through the work of the IN2SMART (GA 730569) project.
The Intelligent Asset Management pillar within S2R is made up of three interlinked Technology Demonstrators (TDs):
• TD3.7 Railway Information Measuring and Monitoring System (RIMMS) focuses on asset status data collection (measuring and monitoring), processing and data aggregation producing data and information on the status of assets;
• TD3.6 Dynamic Railway Information Management System (DRIMS) focuses on interfaces with external systems; maintenance-related data management and data mining and data analytics; asset degradation modelling covering both degradation modelling driven by data and domain knowledge and the enhancement of existing models using data/new insights;
• TD3.8 Intelligent Asset Management Strategies (IAMS) concentrates on decision making (based also but not only on TD3.6 input); validation and implementation of degradation models based on the combination of traditional and data driven degradation models and embedding them in the operational maintenance process based upon domain knowledge; system modelling; strategies and human decision support; automated execution of work.
Starting from the objectives defined for and the results achieved in the IN2SMART project, IN2SMART2 is aimed at implementing specific vertical demonstrators throughout the UCs implemented in its WPs, as hereafter listed:
WP4/5 – Urban Metro System IAMS: design and deployment
WP6 – Digital twin for smart asset management
WP7 – Anomaly detection for rail fastener systems
WP8/9 – RCM maintenance reduction interventions and decisions: design and deployment and in-field Validation
WP10 – SMART Maintenance for Infrastructure
WP11 – Integrated Asset Management for Civils
WP12 – Operational Asset Management in a Dutch environment
WP13 – LEAN Equipment
WP14 – Intelligent track geometry maintenance decision support
WP15 – Strategical and tactical track asset management for the North Line in Portugal & New Tram Depot Design with smart IAMS approach.
The final goal to reach an holistic IAMS vision to guarantee coherence and uniformity to the IN2SMART2 TRL6/7 demonstrators implemented at WP level (from 4 to 15) and to validate them is fulfilled with the so called Integrated Technical Demonstrator (ITD).
The ITD is aimed at showing integration between the different individual demonstrators developed in those WPs participating in WP3 Task 3.4: namely, WP4/5, WP7, WP10, WP12, and WP14.
At the end the objective of the ITD is twofold:
1. To demonstrate, by integrating data using CDM from 5 different individual demonstrators at the WP level, that it is possible to share on a common standardized platform assets’ data distributed over wide range of information systems and differing standards. The advantage of this approach is that it does not depend on the implementation solutions.
2. To highlight the importance of digitalisation by showing that, on the basis of data purely collected for asset management purposes, it is possible to derive key information (KPIs) to be exploited by other railway services (e.g. TMS) and stakeholders (e.g. railway undertakings). So, the final goal is to disseminate the message that digitalisation (and the consequent Digital Twin) shall be tackled from a holistic point of view by the involved stakeholders.
The conclusion of In2smart2 action was taken in 2023 in order to recovery some delays, mainly due to Covid in the initial phase.
In addition some different activities were performed in WP13, with the change of the end effector for the maintenance robot running on lines, and new additional activities in WP12 thanks to costs saving in WP6 that were there fruitfully addressed.
The Intelligent Asset Management pillar within S2R is made up of three interlinked Technology Demonstrators (TDs):
• TD3.7 Railway Information Measuring and Monitoring System (RIMMS) focuses on asset status data collection (measuring and monitoring), processing and data aggregation producing data and information on the status of assets;
• TD3.6 Dynamic Railway Information Management System (DRIMS) focuses on interfaces with external systems; maintenance-related data management and data mining and data analytics; asset degradation modelling covering both degradation modelling driven by data and domain knowledge and the enhancement of existing models using data/new insights;
• TD3.8 Intelligent Asset Management Strategies (IAMS) concentrates on decision making (based also but not only on TD3.6 input); validation and implementation of degradation models based on the combination of traditional and data driven degradation models and embedding them in the operational maintenance process based upon domain knowledge; system modelling; strategies and human decision support; automated execution of work.
Starting from the objectives defined for and the results achieved in the IN2SMART project, IN2SMART2 is aimed at implementing specific vertical demonstrators throughout the UCs implemented in its WPs, as hereafter listed:
WP4/5 – Urban Metro System IAMS: design and deployment
WP6 – Digital twin for smart asset management
WP7 – Anomaly detection for rail fastener systems
WP8/9 – RCM maintenance reduction interventions and decisions: design and deployment and in-field Validation
WP10 – SMART Maintenance for Infrastructure
WP11 – Integrated Asset Management for Civils
WP12 – Operational Asset Management in a Dutch environment
WP13 – LEAN Equipment
WP14 – Intelligent track geometry maintenance decision support
WP15 – Strategical and tactical track asset management for the North Line in Portugal & New Tram Depot Design with smart IAMS approach.
The final goal to reach an holistic IAMS vision to guarantee coherence and uniformity to the IN2SMART2 TRL6/7 demonstrators implemented at WP level (from 4 to 15) and to validate them is fulfilled with the so called Integrated Technical Demonstrator (ITD).
The ITD is aimed at showing integration between the different individual demonstrators developed in those WPs participating in WP3 Task 3.4: namely, WP4/5, WP7, WP10, WP12, and WP14.
At the end the objective of the ITD is twofold:
1. To demonstrate, by integrating data using CDM from 5 different individual demonstrators at the WP level, that it is possible to share on a common standardized platform assets’ data distributed over wide range of information systems and differing standards. The advantage of this approach is that it does not depend on the implementation solutions.
2. To highlight the importance of digitalisation by showing that, on the basis of data purely collected for asset management purposes, it is possible to derive key information (KPIs) to be exploited by other railway services (e.g. TMS) and stakeholders (e.g. railway undertakings). So, the final goal is to disseminate the message that digitalisation (and the consequent Digital Twin) shall be tackled from a holistic point of view by the involved stakeholders.
The conclusion of In2smart2 action was taken in 2023 in order to recovery some delays, mainly due to Covid in the initial phase.
In addition some different activities were performed in WP13, with the change of the end effector for the maintenance robot running on lines, and new additional activities in WP12 thanks to costs saving in WP6 that were there fruitfully addressed.
In the period under examination the project experienced its last phase for several UCs, more or less still conditioned in all the WPs which have as their final objective the vertical demonstrators (from WP4 to WP15) by the situation created by the pandemic.
Reflecting some detailed and updated analysis the Technical Management Team of the project approved during the period some modifications in the UCs described in WP9, WP11 and WP13, allowing to move towards even more fruitfull achievements.
The relevant reprogramming and corrective actions were coherently implemented, but needed a time extension to be fulfilled.
This third period was characterized by the development of the Integrated Technical Demonstrator (ITD) named Gotham city that was successufully demonstrated with the participation to the JU stand at Innotrans 2022 in Berlin.
As well the third period was characterized by the successful ending of a list of UCs, all of them shown with participation at the final event, held in Milan in November 2022.
In both occasion a list of live demos, videos and interactive presentations shown the level of maturity reached, at the time in object, by most of the vertical UCs belonging to the project.
The design and implementation of the ITD was something closely dealing with the project's core: it has allowed to demonstrate several aspects that are key for the railway digitalisation, i.e. that it is possible:
• To share data amongst different stakeholders using a common model and a common IT architecture without infringing the Intellectual Property Rights of the data owners and the related confidentiality matters.
• To exploit data mostly collected for asset management purposes to support other railway functions and domains (e.g. the Traffic Management System and the information to the public) thus implementing the first steps toward a proper railway digitalisation.
• To improve the Human Machine Interface (HMI) and therefore the decision-making process by visualising contextual information allowing the person in charge taking decisions to focus on the key aspects influencing its process.
• To include in the HMI and the data visualisation also uncertain items like the fault prediction and that it is possible to treat uncertain information with the person in the loop to better manage and improve the performances of the railway system.
During the final phases of the project many exploitation activities, fully described in deliverable D16.3 "Dissemination, exploitation and communication activities", were conducted by the consortium members and especially by the participants of In2smart2 who continued their innovative research in terms of asset management in the IAM4RAIL project, expression of the Flagship Area 3 (FP3) of the new European program Europe's Rail.
Reflecting some detailed and updated analysis the Technical Management Team of the project approved during the period some modifications in the UCs described in WP9, WP11 and WP13, allowing to move towards even more fruitfull achievements.
The relevant reprogramming and corrective actions were coherently implemented, but needed a time extension to be fulfilled.
This third period was characterized by the development of the Integrated Technical Demonstrator (ITD) named Gotham city that was successufully demonstrated with the participation to the JU stand at Innotrans 2022 in Berlin.
As well the third period was characterized by the successful ending of a list of UCs, all of them shown with participation at the final event, held in Milan in November 2022.
In both occasion a list of live demos, videos and interactive presentations shown the level of maturity reached, at the time in object, by most of the vertical UCs belonging to the project.
The design and implementation of the ITD was something closely dealing with the project's core: it has allowed to demonstrate several aspects that are key for the railway digitalisation, i.e. that it is possible:
• To share data amongst different stakeholders using a common model and a common IT architecture without infringing the Intellectual Property Rights of the data owners and the related confidentiality matters.
• To exploit data mostly collected for asset management purposes to support other railway functions and domains (e.g. the Traffic Management System and the information to the public) thus implementing the first steps toward a proper railway digitalisation.
• To improve the Human Machine Interface (HMI) and therefore the decision-making process by visualising contextual information allowing the person in charge taking decisions to focus on the key aspects influencing its process.
• To include in the HMI and the data visualisation also uncertain items like the fault prediction and that it is possible to treat uncertain information with the person in the loop to better manage and improve the performances of the railway system.
During the final phases of the project many exploitation activities, fully described in deliverable D16.3 "Dissemination, exploitation and communication activities", were conducted by the consortium members and especially by the participants of In2smart2 who continued their innovative research in terms of asset management in the IAM4RAIL project, expression of the Flagship Area 3 (FP3) of the new European program Europe's Rail.
The fourth and last reporting period ended the evaluation of the Impact produced by the IN2SMART2 project that has been performed based on the topics relevant to the last WPs that finished during the period and in accordance to the format present in the GA section (Chapter 2).