Transportation Locomotives

Asset: Locomotive

A US-Based Rail Transportation Company Manages 21,000 Miles of Track and Operates a Fleet of 4,000 Locomotives & 100,000 Rail Cars. In Addition to Rolling Assets, they Maintain Maintenance Shop Facilities, Railyards, Hump Stations, Ship to Rail Terminals and Large Intermodal Transfers.

Challenge:

Plagued by operational and catastrophic asset failures
Since 2003, the company has experienced over $1 billion in total losses in 2,500 train derailments
Aging rail infrastructure paired with legacy locomotives lacking the necessary instrumentation to produce data for analysis
CMMS analytics unable to analyze real-time sensor data

Results:

Predicted battery anomalies
Reduce unscheduled downtime
Improve maintenance shop effectiveness
Provided sensor instrumentation on locomotive diesel engine
Data utilized to create smart algorithms/agents to predict future engine failures