RMS

Enterprise Asset Management for Rollingstock & Infrastructure

RMS is a comprehensive Enterprise Asset Management System used in Rail Services for facilitating the operation and management of locos, wagons and infrastructure.

Manage the entire asset lifecycle efficiently – line-side infrastructure, locomotives and wagon assets – with real-time visibility into asset performance and powerful analytics.

With RMS it’s easier to optimise asset usage, shrink costs, better manage capital expenditures, and ultimately maximise your return on assets.

Main features and functional modules

✔︎ Comprehensive asset and hierarchy structure
✔︎ Infrastructure maintenance module
✔︎ Preventive and reactive maintenance
✔︎ Stores, inventory and procurement management
✔︎ Fleet/fuel management module
✔︎ Financials – real-time, multiple cost components and GLs
✔︎ Domain specific analysis and reporting
✔︎ Robust 3rd party integration – internal and external, IoT
✔︎ Multi-dimensional security model
✔︎ Notifications, alerts and data audit

Comprehensive asset and hierarchy structure

 ● Multi-level organisational structure:

o Organisational units, business units
o Cost centres, workshops, warehouses
o Programs, major projects, projects

● Multi-level equipment (asset) hierarchy:

o Unlimited levels
o Visual representation of structure
o Online history and details – drawings, documents, pictures

● Condition monitoring
● Data imports from electronic wheel measurement systems

Infrastructure maintenance module

● Routes, sections, sectors
● Signals, bridges, track equipment

Preventive and reactive maintenance

● Capital projects
● Scheduled work
● Breakdowns
● Work order budgets, estimates, actual costs
● Work planning, monitoring and control – graphical
● Monitor operational train readiness
● Preventive maintenance by time, meter or both
● PM forecasting and efficiency

Fleet/fuel management module

● Bulk storage tanks
● DIL – direct into loco
● Consignment tanks
● Multiple storage locations, tanks and bowsers
● Independent integrated fuel purchasing subsystem

Stores, inventory and procurement management

● Multiple warehouses and bins
● Parts utilisation analysis
● Buyers review facility
● Tenders – fully electronic option (“bulletin board”)
● Stores receipts, issues and returns
● Stocktake facility – single part and batch
● Inter-warehouse transfers
● Rail critical items and lead time
● Flexible reordering methods
● Multiple suppliers with individual ratings
● Multi-level authorisation facility
● Tolerance-based invoice matching
● Vendor-managed and non-vendor-managed stock

Financials – real-time, multiple cost components and GLs

● Tasks, labour (timesheets), materials
● Stores and direct charge purchase orders
● Ancillary costs
● Overheads and contingency
● Cost tracking: budget, estimate and actuals
● Internal GL Transaction framework
● Comprehensive GL transaction review facility

Domain specific analysis and reporting

● Reliability
● Cost and budget
● Trend analysis by fault type by diverse types
● Fault analysis – cost of repair – prime selection

Robust 3rd party integration – internal and external, IoT

● Tight bidirectional integration with other internal systems: financial, payroll, procurement etc.
● Interfaces to external 3rd party systems: suppliers, customers etc. Multi-dimensional security model
● Multi-dimensional security model
● Controlled access to functional areas and specific data
● Full security auditing
● Single Sign-On (e.g., Microsoft Azure AD)

Notifications, alerts and data audit

● Dashboard facility to monitor complete system state and immediately highlight problem areas with the ability to drill-down to details
● Automatic background sentinels continuously monitor for abnormal situations and notify immediately
● A rich set of sentinels is provided out-of-the-box and additional sentinels can be easily defined
● Notifications appear as interactive prompts when starting the system, as emails and optionally as SMS
● Completely user-configurable data audit – every field everywhere can be audited for changes

Local and cloud deployment options

● Native local and cloud deployment strategy based on Docker.