MER MEC at IET's International Conference on Railway Condition Monitoring
03 November 2006 11:41
IET's International Conference on Railway Condition Monitoring will be held at The Centennial Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom from 29 to 30 November 2006. This two-day conference is intended to showcase the latest research, product development and practical experience about modern asset management techniques that are becoming increasingly reliant upon effective and reliable condition-monitoring equipment. MER MEC will participate at the conference with two interventions.
Integrated Railway Infrastructure Conditioning Monitoring for Optimal Asset Management
Stasha Jovanovic, MER MEC's project manager for RAMSYS, will present the Integrated Railway Infrastructure Conditioning Monitoring for Optimal Asset Management paper during the first session on 29 November. The study treats the latest results of an ongoing research about deterioration model in track maintenance. This model is currently incorporated in MER MEC's asset management solution, RAMSYS.
The paper is based on evidence that Maintenance and Renewal (M&R) of railway networks requires significant investments so that even marginal improvements in the efficiency of the maintenance management can yield large absolute savings. Understanding the manner in which every single railway infrastructure element changes makes it possible to predict the future behavoiur of the infrastructure.
Contact Wire Wear Measurement and Data Management
On November 30, during session 6a, Giovanni Pascoschi, product development manager at MER MEC and Adrian Shing of MRT Corporation will jointly present the Contact Wire Wear Measurement and Data Management paper. The interaction of pantograph strip on contact wire will form a wear couple that is continuous throughout the railway network. Unlike the replacement of pantograph strips that can be done off-site in depots, the renewal of contact wire must be completed on site within a short period during the closure of traffic, using extensive manpower and expensive plants. Knowing the degree of wire wear and its rate of wear is thus very important for the railway operator.
In the long term, an asset replacement plan can be established. In the near term, a wear control index can be formulated to gauge the contact wire to check how close it is from breakage. The paper will discuss the approach adopted by the Hong Kong MTR Corporation to monitor the overhead contact wire using an automated contact wire wear measurement system based on non contact laser technology.
MER MEC proceedings will be available for download immediately after the international conference through My MERMEC web environment. My MER MEC is the reserved area of the company web site that is available to any site visitor.
For more information on this company:
Mer Mec - Rail, Track, Wheel, Overhead Line and Ride Quality Measuring Systems and Vehicles for Condition Monitoring of Conventional and High-Speed Railways
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