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Modular System for Reliability and Maintainability Management in European Rail Transport (REMAIN)
RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS
REMAIN has focussed on condition monitoring and RAMS management for turnouts. It has proven that in spite of the installation costs for monitoring equipment, the life cycle costs can be significantly reduced.
The REMAIN project has provided a suitable set of tools for the technical selection of condition monitoring equipment and for decision support in the financial evaluation of new equipment and the planning/organisation of the maintenance.
Tools used for condition monitoring are rather component specific. Monitoring methods used for turnouts can normally not be transferred to other components. Railway companies should extend this work to other components that contribute significantly to delay time and maintenance costs. The selection can be based on statistical data as they were compiled in the requirements analysis of REMAIN. For selected components sensors must be applied and specific signal analysis and pattern recognition methods have to be developed. The REMAIN system architecture has devised means to integrate the tools and methods, so the implementation of the REMAIN system would remarkably facilitate this process.
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