Innovation Showcase – Bentley’s AssetWise Optram

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Innovation Showcase – Bentley’s AssetWise Optram MEED Rail and Metro Summit 2015

Steve Cockerell, Industry Marketing Director – Rail, Bentley Systems

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The Cost of not being Pro-Active or Strategic

Unnecessary

materials and labour $ Too Much

Too Early Scheduled / Planned

Minimum $ to

ensure reliability

The Right Work

at the Right Time Pro-Active / Strategic

Type of work

Downtime

- highest repair $ Too Little

Too Late Reactive / Worst-First

Result Cost


Rail and Transit Asset Management Challenges

Complex intersections

and locations need to be

modeled

The networks that assets

are located against

constantly change

Linear assets have

changing values

along their length

Multimodal transport

sharing the same

space / networks

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Linear Asset Decision Support / Optram Network Rail


• Poor decisions on where to renew and maintain track

• Right information not available to right people at the right time

• Create a single asset management and decision support system

– Presents data in one place

– Accurately align all asset data

– Provides predictive insight into deterioration and intervention requirements

• Do more for less through right work, right place, right time!

The Challenge


Optram: Sample screen

Track Layout

Designed &

Measured Curve

Work History

Defect History

Geometry History

Mile/KM Post

Roughness History


Optram: Data Sources

• Track geometry

• OLE

• Ground Penetrating Radar

• Maintenance

• Inspections

• Asset data

• Trends and predictions

• Network definition


Optram: Links to documents

Bentley’s Navigator Mobile

.DGN / .DOC / .PDF / etc…


Optram: Links to external systems, mapping and video

Courtesy of Track Access Services, UK


Optram: Analytical Results


•Bentley’s AssetWise Optram is the foundation of Network Rail’s Linear Asset Decision Support system (LADS)

•LADS is part of Offering Rail Better Information Services (ORBIS)

– Quality asset information at heart of decisions

– Will deliver US$ 1.1 billion benefits over 10 years

“Transforms Network Rail’s track infrastructure maintenance availability” Chairman Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) Judging Panel

The Solution


Network Rail LADS Benefits

LADS is improving the planning of track

maintenance by enabling better decisions

in the office and in the field, with the

objective of saving GBP 125 million by

the end of Network Rail’s financial and

planning Control Period 5 in March 2019.



Optram – Part of Bentley’s AssetWise Platform

• Provides comprehensive integration

• Combines proven technologies

• Deployed via hybrid cloud-services

• Improves Information Mobility

• Adherence to asset management standards

• Maximizes asset performance

• The Right Work, in the Right Place, at the Right Time!

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