Estonian Railways Report July 2023 | Page 11

ESTONIAN RAILWAYS
Moving from calendar-based to conditional maintenance Railway is a critical infrastructure . As the owner of said infrastructure , Zaitsev emphasises that Estonian Railways must be 100 % sure of security and enact timely maintenance .
“ For sure , moving from calendar-based type of maintenance to conditional-based type of maintenance is one of the goals that we want to achieve within the Enterprise Asset Management programme ,” he says . “ Our mission is to complete it with assets ’ performance management , so we can analyse the behaviour of the assets remotely and reduce maintenance time .
“ This year , we have started a pilot project for remote condition monitoring of point machines , powered by the Smart Maintenance Platform . This improves the decision-making process by offering evidence on asset conditions and , consequently , informing the maintenance priority . It ’ s too early to talk about the results , but I believe that this project will serve as a starting point for moving to a conditional maintenance direction , and , in the future , we will add additional systems for analysis .”
The centrality of data and analytics to digital transformation Zaitsev says that data and analytics serve as the basis for Estonian Railways ’ transformation . He points out that digital transformation starts from implementing data Infrastructure for secure data transferring and integration with other products and applications .
“ This year we have created a new department to start monitoring the data coming from various systems and subsystems . As the next step we need to create an environment for connecting
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