The document is an agenda for the 'Rail Asset Information' conference held on June 26, 2014, in London, featuring various speakers from rail infrastructure organizations discussing advancements in asset management, technology integration, and data utilization in the rail sector. Key topics include the importance of remote condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, and the development of unified information strategies to enhance operational efficiency and decision-making. The event aims to foster networking among industry leaders, technology specialists, and academics to drive innovation in asset performance management.

1. 26th June 2014
London
ICO Conference Centre
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Confirmed speakers:
London Underground, Kuldeep Gharatya, The
Head of Railway Systems
London Underground, John Downes, Engineering
Assurance & Efficiency Manager
London Overground, Peter Kiernan, Head of
Infrastructure Management
RFF, Talhat Khechen, Head of Engineering
Telecom
Costain, Ross Agnew, Director of Technology
Solutions
SNCF, Marc Antoni, Asset Management and Head
of Technological Innovation
ProRail, Jan Swier, Strategic advisor and project
leader
Infrabel, Stéphanie Hammer, Program Manager
University of Birmingham, Professor Clive
Roberts, Head of Rail research
Crossrail, Ross Dentten, Asset Information &
Configuration Manager
Lloyd’s Register Rail Europe, Ilse Vermeij, Product
Manager Measurement Services
HS2, Mark Eaden, Asset Information Manager
and Jon Kerbey, Head of Systems and information
Metro de Madrid, Carlos Esquiroz, Engineering
and Maintenance Director
SNCF, Christian Daniel, ECM Business Processing
Director of the Rolling Stock Department
Why you should attend:
• Hear how Rail Operators and Infrastructure owners are developing new IT
based strategies to gain competitive advantage
• Understand how new technologies initiatives can enhance remote condition
monitoring and predictive maintenance
• Learn how your organisation can turn data into actionable intelligence
• Network with rail and infrastructure leaders, technology specialists, leading
academics and consultants putting IT at the heart of their business strategy.
SponsorsCo Sponsors Exhibitors
The convergence of technology and infrastructure has the ability to transform
our communities and economy, reduce emissions as well provide an opportunity
for business leaders to optimise asset performance and reduce cost. To realise
the benefits of next generation intelligence, a unified vision and strategy is
required to ensure we are understanding how to best leverage the information
we are receiving, and how we are managing the vast amount of data associated
with new systems.
Asset Information and data management will allow more precise decisions
to be made to balance cost, risk and performance, supporting operational
effectiveness and efficiency.
We will be addressing how the European rail sector are developing and
implementing asset information strategies, managing data across multiple
disparate systems and leveraging new technologies to succeed.
Overview
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2. Programme - 26th June 2014
Venue:
ICO Conference Centre
22 Berners Street, London, W1T 3DD
8.30 Registration
9.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
University of Birmingham, Professor Clive Roberts,
Head of Rail Research
9.10 The changing landscape created by increasing
asset data and information volumes – an urban
railway’s perspective of the challenges and
opportunities.
• Setting the scene in terms of the world’s oldest
railway and the fact that we have been
• Looking after it reasonably successfully for over
150 years
• Explore the landscape in terms of standards
regulations and changing business practices
• Illustratration of some of the opportunities and
challenges this brings
• A way forward
• A view from the Transport Systems Catapult (KKG)
• A vision of a data driven future (KKG)
Capital Programmes Directorate of London
Underground, Kuldeep Gharatya, Engineering
Director at the Transport Systems Catapult
London Underground, John Downes, Engineering
Assurance & Efficiency Manager
9.40 Enabling Quality Asset Information to support the
Crossrail Smart Railway
• What is Crossrail?
• Good Practice Asset Management
• The Crossrail Smart Railway
• Quality Asset Information
• Sharing Good Practice
• Smart Benefits
Crossrail, Ross Dentten, Asset Information &
Configuration Manager
10.10 From Asset Management to Asset Intelligence
• The rise of asset intelligence, market pressures
• The art of the possible, asset information and
agile solutions
• Snapshot of reality, asset insight and intervention
• Barriers to Intelligence, systems and knowledge
Costain, Ross Agnew, Director of Technology Solutions
10.40 Morning coffee and networking
11.10 The use of remote condition monitoring to aid
predictive maintenance
• Use of points condition monitoring
• Daily interrogation of data by signalling
technicians
• Use of switch “signatures” and alert thresholds
• Variance assessment and fault identification
London Overground at Transport for London, Peter
Kiernan, Head of Infrastructure Management
11.40 Asset Management and Information; two sides of
the same coin
• The essence of asset management
• The asset management process and focus
• The need of risk management and condition monitoring
• The connection between asset management
business and information & data management
• How to grow to one Rail Asset Information Model
for the whole sector
ProRail, Jan Swier, Strategic advisor and project leader
12.10 Introduction of RFF Telecom Networks: Towards
Unified IP Network
• General overview of RFF Railway and Telecom
Infrastructure
• Transformation: Main drivers to go towards IP
• Motivations: Change of technology
Railways strategy target towards unified
IP Network RFF, Talhat Khechen, Head of
Engineering Telecom
12.40 Asset management in a “practical way” in the
railway domain in France and with the UIC
• The way we use the patrimony datas to elaborate
the right information (cross the many asset type
as signaling, track, switches, earth work)
• Enhancing decision making abilities and
balancing between maintenance and renewal
• Leveraging data for the adaptation of the maintenance
level, adaptation of the next product design
SNCF, Marc Antoni, Asset management, Head of
technological Innovation
13.10 Networking Lunch
14.10 SNCF wants to increase the maturity of safety
processes by developing
Data Input
• Automatic Input to Avoid Manual Data Entry
(Highest reliability than manual input)
• Data Entry done in real-time (avoid Job first and
Traceability later)
• Increase in throughput
• Refine Processes (Quality Improvement)
• Reconciliation of Data (Cross Checking)
• Easier Monitoring of Assemblies and components
• Integration of the solution in a vertical process (from
component manufacturer to ECM) Share Results
• Real time monitoring of Technical and Stock
indicators for Asset Management
• Allow used of Business Intelligence to create
dedicated solutions
• And to integer its processes in a Big Picture …
SNCF, Christian Daniel, ECM Business Processing
Director of the Rolling Stock Department
14.40 How we may use functional data for best investments
• More data is not equal to better information. It
could be just noise
• The TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) vs The
cheapest one option. How we can use the right
mix of accruable data and good maintenance
practice to reliable investment decisions
• The never-ending change. The value is not just
only a question of money, but the service offered
to the clients, so data must show the functional
stage of assets.
• Data for intangible assets: The Know How
involved in projects or the delivery models are
connected with the assets used for. May we use
those issues as data for better investments?
Metro de Madrid, Carlos Esquíroz, Engineering and
Maintenance Director
15.10 Smart data collection to continuously monitor the status
of your infrastructure – an Intelligent Rail example
• Creating Intelligent applications by smart use of
existing assets
• Benefitting from rapid changes in data collection
technology
• Continuous data logging from passenger trains
• Statistical modelling of maintenance requirements
Lloyd’s Register Rail Europe, Ilse Vermeij, Product
Manager, Measurement Services
15.40 Coffee and afternoon networking
16.10 Case study: There is a long way to go on HS2
before we will be in a position to manage
operational assets. We are configuring our Asset
Information Management Systems (AIMS) with an
eye towards future operations so that the data we
hold on our planned assets supports and informs
each stage of the project lifecycle, from design
through construction and into operation. It is our
intention that the data held in the AIMS will grow
and develop with the project so that it becomes
the core of the Asset Management Systems for the
operational railway.
HS2, Mark Eaden, Asset Information Manager
and HS2, Jon Kerbey, Head of Systems and Asset
Information
16.40 Approaches to data management that support
system wide decision making
• The data driven railway
• Semantic web technologies
• Ontology
• Early case studies
University of Birmingham, Clive Roberts, Head of
Rail Research
17.10 Infrabel Case study
• Asset monitoring: going to condition based
maintenance
• Incident data analysis
• Degradation models for predictive maintenance
• Access policy to critical assets: guarantee
availability
• Asset information strategy: data governance,
master data management, opportunities, risks,
challenges
Infrabel, Stephanie Hammer, Program Manager
17.40 Close of Conference
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