Industry

Information systems for transport: rail, urban and airport

Rolling stock, infrastructure, airport equipment: transport players must design, operate and maintain complex assets for decades.

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The context

Rolling stock, track, stations, airport equipment: transport assets are operated for decades, with a constant requirement for safety and availability.

Operators and manufacturers need reliable technical data: equipment configuration, maintenance history, documentation and requirements.

IT challenges in the transport sector

The topics that come up most often in our discussions with manufacturers in the sector.

Asset maintenance

Plan and track the maintenance of fleets and infrastructure, with stringent availability and safety requirements.

Configuration management

Know the actual configuration of each piece of equipment, including modifications, throughout its life.

Requirements and safety

Manage numerous requirements and demonstrate their coverage.

Technical documentation

Provide maintenance teams with up-to-date documentation.

The CNEXT expertise involved

We work with operators and manufacturers on CMMS and EAM, PLM for equipment configuration and ALM for requirements management.

Our consultants provide consulting, business-side project assistance (AMOA), integration and application maintenance and training.

The role of each building block

  • EAM / CMMS: maintenance of equipment and facilities, spare parts and costs.
  • PLM: product definition, bills of materials, changes and configuration.
  • ALM: requirements, systems engineering, software and traceability through to testing.

Example assignments

  • EAM / CMMS deployment and enhancement
  • Equipment configuration management in PLM
  • Requirements management (ALM)
  • Maintenance data migration

Our approach

We start from the needs of maintenance and operations teams: what information they lack, when, and on what medium. The quality of asset data (hierarchies, histories, configurations) is often the first workstream, even before the tool is chosen or upgraded.

Every assignment begins with understanding your processes and the constraints of the transport sector. We then propose a realistic roadmap and support you as needed: one-off expertise, project support or reinforcement of your teams and those of your integrator. Our consultants combine business and technical expertise and are proficient in the leading solutions on the market.

They trust us

Some of the clients in the sector our consultants have worked with.

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Frequently asked questions

Do you work with operators as well as manufacturers?

Yes. The challenges differ (maintenance and operations on one side, design and industrialisation on the other) and we adapt the consultant profiles accordingly.

Which EAM solutions do you know?

IBM Maximo, Carl Source, Coswin 8i, Octave Attune EAM, DimoMaint, CORIM Solutions and Capital.

Which modes of transport do you cover?

Rail, urban transport and airports: the asset and configuration management challenges are similar across all three.

A PLM, ERP, MES or EAM project? Let’s talk.

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