The Swedish railway is composed of several stakeholders, each one with individual objectives and strategies. Although maintenance data used by all, data sharing is not common. Due to this, the lack of data sharing, effects maintenance decision making negatively.
To support the collaboration necessary for data sharing, decision support tools and enhanced information and communication technologies are needed. Solutions have been successfully developed through research within the eMaintenance field. Research in ICT and maintenance have been conducted in the eMaintenance Lab at Luleå Railway Research Center (JVTC) at Luleå University of Technology, for more than a decade.
Condition based maintenance is enabled by implementing eMaintenance research results in the ePilot-project, in order to create a collaboration platform; which can transform the Swedish fragmented rail industry to an integrated system, from an organizational and technical point of view. Today, 25 sub-projects has been completed covering solutions e.g. system for predicting degradation of wheel and rail using data from way-side and mobile monitoring equipment and new inspection techniques.
The paper aims to describe some of the key factors that might enable or hinder the collaboration, sharing of data and implementation of good results, jointly creating the best prerequisites for the operation and maintenance of the railway system.
The goal of the project is to improve punctuality and minimize disruption in rail services. The project is an industry collaboration between JVTC, the Swedish Transport Administration, railway actors and innovators in Sweden.
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