With Optram, railway executives, engineers, field staffs, maintenance managers, and renewal contractors benefit from a consolidated source of asset information – a source to which they also contribute information. By improving the effectiveness of corridor asset management, maintenance managers and planners substantially increase the safety, performance, and reliability of the railway network.
Reap Full Value From Your Railway Data
Optram is designed to help track managers turn railway data into actionable information, enabling them to make better decisions about track and other maintenance of-way assets. Track managers can confidently determine what work needs to be done, where the work should be focused, and when the work should be performed. Historical information helps them judge the effectiveness of work over time. The software displays data in a linear graphical chart so that users can quickly and accurately collect, view, analyze, and manage every dimension of the railway infrastructure and its conditions over time. At its core is a linear network model that correlates information from many sources – including raw measurement data – into a common location-based reference system.
Around this core, Optram provides tools to help reap value from the data.
Optram Enterprise
Provides integrated viewing of track data for optimized track management Railway information is clearly presented in linear, thematic electronic track charts that make asset, condition, and historical data comprehensible and exploitable for users across the enterprise. From the chart, users have direct access to the data for graphical editing, analysis, manipulation, and data import. Users can interactively reference more than 200 types of railway asset data simultaneously, including track layouts, curves, rail/ballast/sleepers, planned work, work history, events history, rail defects, gross tonnage, maintenance zones, area zones, track category, and mileposts.
Optram Measurement
Offers unmatched flexibility when working with track-condition data
The software provides features for loading, storing, positioning, checking, testing, and automating track measurement vehicle data. Easy-to-use automation tools enable users to work with:
- Track geometry – managing track geometry measurement and exception data using standard track inspection car data
- Rail condition data – managing longitudinal rail profile measurements and rail defects from popular rail-detection systems
- Catenary wire information – incorporating catenary wire/overhead-line alignment and thicknesses
- Additional measurement data – handling third-rail geometry, ultrasonic, rail corrugation, and more.
Optram Analysis and Forecasting
A unique data processing tool that offers substantial return on investment through preventive maintenance
Users can set up and schedule a series of calculations and rules that operate on track network data to generate a wide variety of actionable results. Optram
will automatically run analyses of track quality indexes, degradation rates, and condition trending – and predict outcomes over time. It analyzes the effectiveness of tamping work, for example, and quickly gives answers such as historical costs for specific track subdivisions or identification of tracks due for inspection.
Optram Programming Extension
Allows users to embed Optram track charts in custom applications
Information from an Optram system can be used with geographical information systems (GIS), enterprise asset management (EAM) systems, and computerized
maintenance management systems (CMMS). Optram Programming Extension enables third-party applications to display Optram track charts and receive user track chart interactions such as selecting an asset or adding a work record.
The Optram Advantage
Optram runs standalone or can be integrated with other enterprise systems, such as finance or work-order systems, to provide a seamless workflow and enable users to:
- Import a wide variety of data including assets, work, inspection, and track measurement data
- Generate electronic and printed track charts from a common data source
- Integrate existing data systems with live data links
- Link assets to existing documents, images, and applications
- Employ extensive data processing capabilities for analysis and forecasting
- Take advantage of web, client, and network disconnected deployment configurations
- Build custom applications with interactive track charts
- Provide data security for users and groups using data location and data type
- Build a custom application from Optram’s selection of modules and scalable pricing.
Powerful Track Analysis and Maintenance Management
Optram software makes it possible to integrate multiple sources of railway corridor information and perform a wide array of track analysis and maintenance management activities. For example, users can:
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Process, present, and analyze complex track data
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Evaluate maintenance needs and create work orders in an efficient, integrated process
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Prioritize maintenance projects by track performance
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Identify areas of high costs or repeated repairs
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Focus maintenance operations and resources
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Pinpoint the location of problem areas
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Forecast and prioritize:
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Rail grinding locations
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Rail replacement
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Rail inspection cycles
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IRJ replacement
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Rail stress and failure
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Weld failure
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Rail corrugation growth
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Identify the most critical and vulnerable areas
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Analyze historical trends at precise locations
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Determine the root cause of track-related problems
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Achieve a significant reduction in track geometry defects
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Deliver electronic and printable track charts and other information.