Short-term renewal savings today can result in cost rises tomorrow
Swedish train seen from above AFRY/Transport Styrelsen
Data-based strategic asset management enables multi-purpose utilisation of data to support decisions at the management level. For example, modelling existing data can lead to high levels of optimisation in current processes and it facilitates answering the relevant questions with clear and concise messages, Christian Blättler, Manager Strategic Asset Management, Technology & Investments at AFRY tells RailTech.com in an interview.
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Currently, at railways, Short Time attentions, regrettably, decisively not “can”, but does – and in fact is devastating.
“Optimal Maintenance”, mantra,…, tells about two things:
1. Maintenance has become very costly.
2. A shift is needed.
Even worse, “maintenance” is not relevant, but wrong and misleading, as majority of attending is for repairing…
A shift is needed. “Investments” now made are “cementing” – and paving for even further (now big business…) “optimal maintenance”, etc.