Agenda
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Conference Program
The conference will feature a mix of panel discussions and presentations.
There will also be an opportunity for networking.
Day 1: October 27, 2021
Session 1: Emerging Trends in Asset Management
- Current and emerging trends in asset management
- Short-term and long-term impact of the pandemic
- Accelerating digital asset management
- Data and data systems
- Opportunities and challenges for asset management in 2021
Session 2: European Commission’s Policies, Initiatives, Guidelines
- Role of digital asset management in transforming Europe’s rail system
- Connected and integrated digital railway system
- Shift2Rail
- Key challenges, plans and the way forward to 2030
Session 3: Rail Infrastructure Managers’ and Rail Operators Perspective: A Panel Discussion
- Strategies for asset management, key initiatives
- Investment prioritisation
- Digital asset management
- Key technologies deployed
- Key challenges and future plans
Session 4: Strategies and Solutions for Asset Management
- Whole Life Value (including capital and operating costs)
- Digital asset management
- Developing asset management registers and plans
- Asset planning and scheduling
- Security
- Prioritising capital investments
- Human resource development, cross-team collaboration, outsourcing
Session 5: Spotlight on Predict and Prevent
- Reducing time-based maintenance
- Transitioning to a proactive, data-led approach to maintenance
- Key issues and challenges
- Solutions
- Case studies
Session 6: Leveraging Transit Data
- Data governance - ownership and sharing
- Data integration and analysis, breaking silos
- Enterprise Asset Management system architecture
- Role of data in preventive and predictive maintenance
- Technologies and techniques for data and analytics (drones, sensors, IoT, AI, etc.)
- Big data analytics
Day 2: October 28, 2021
Session 7: Rolling Stock Asset Management
- Rolling stock asset management plan, outsourcing vs in-house fleet maintenance
- Rolling stock procurement strategies - purchase, upgrade or lease?
- Wayside condition monitoring
- IoT asset management solutions - sensors for predictive maintenance
- Efficiency enhancements - regenerative braking, HVAC systems
- Commuter traffic monitoring systems
- Refurbishment and life extension
Session 8: Track and Railway Systems Maintenance
- Energy efficient power systems with real-time diagnostics data
- Next-generation signalling systems
- Sensors and monitoring devices across p-ways
- Enterprise asset management systems - utilising data analytics for smart asset management
- Integrating track and train
Session 9: Solutions for Stations
- Requirements, strategies and plans
- Benefits, challenges
- Best practices and case studies
Session 10: Modernizing Fare Systems
- Planning transition from legacy systems, repurposing existing equipment
- Integrating mobile ticketing, MaaS, cloud accounts
- Data reporting for transit operations efficiency
Session 11: Asset Optimisation
- Using asset management software
- Operations scheduling, asset management planning, predictive maintenance
- Asset renewal programmes
- Digitalisation
- Lifecycle cost management
Session 12: Digital Revolution: Technologies for Asset Management
- BIM for rail
- Enterprise asset management solutions
- IoT and big data solutions
- Use of drones and sensors
- Real-time monitoring solutions
- New technologies