Increase in Productivity and Cost Efficiency of Railway Infrastructure Inspection and Maintenance Achieved by Optimisation of Work Processes

This article discusses the scope of the extensive reorganization and optimization of work processes at BAM Rail of Netherlands performed by proLean Consulting AG of Duesseldorf, Germany. Inspection and maintenance expenditures were significantly reduced as a result of the deployment of inter-disciplinary inspection and maintenance teams that also directly carried out small repairs. An important prerequisite for this was the rejection of isolated consideration of the specialist deployment groups.

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• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: pp 13-16
• Serial:
  • Rail Engineering International
  • Volume: 33
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: De Rooi Publications
  • ISSN: 0141-4615

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cost effectiveness; Inspection; Maintenance management; Operations; Optimization; Productivity; Reorganization; Work environment
• Identifier Terms: Nederlandse Spoorwegen
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01000650
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 22 2005 7:03PM