Smart tools for railway inspection and maintenance work, performance and safety improvement

The rail sector faces significant challenges as a wide variety of heterogeneous working methods, the continued raising of the workforce average age, and the lack of young workers interested in such physically demanding work. STREAM supports LEAN execution of intelligent inspection and maintenance processes promoting and implementing technologies to improve safety, prevent incidents and accidents, and support workers in maintenance activities. The ambition is to significantly enhance operational planning, safety, and performance while causing little change to current work processes. STREAM contributes to two leading technologies: The OTA3M, a control platform adapted to existing excavators that provides autonomous multi-purpose operations enabling safe worker-machine collaboration. The MMPE is a modular multi-tasking exoskeleton developed to assist track workers during heavy activities.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.856
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146523011547
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/23521465
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Natali, Christian Di
  • Mattila, Jouni
  • Kolu, Antti
  • De Vito, Pietro
  • Gauttier, Stéphanie
  • Morata, Miquel
  • Garcia, Marta
  • Caldwell, Darwin
• Conference:
  • Transport Research Arena Conference (TRA Lisbon 2022)
  • Location: Lisbon , Portugal
  • Date: 2022-11-14 to 2022-11-17
• Publication Date: 2023

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 3070-3077
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Procedia
  • Volume: 72
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2352-1465
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/23521465/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Inspection; Intelligent control systems; Maintenance personnel; Maintenance practices; Occupational safety; Railroad safety
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01909756
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 26 2024 8:51AM