Train Owner Case Studies
Door
Diagnostics
remote monitoring of train doors through
the use of inductively coupled telemetry.
It is a low cost solution that delivers “health indicators” on the doors that allow effective
and targeted interventions to be made.
monitoring solution based around
their proven Diagnostic Hub,
which is in use on multiple fleets
in the UK for condition monitoring.
ScotRail
Data into information
of materials that would reduce time, procurement activities and storage optimisation. Unipart Rail’s kitting system significantly reduced the
time taken to complete the overhaul operation.
Eurostar
Re-usable kitting solution
Hinged
Light Diffusers
Northern Rail had a number of reported
driver complaints about draughts
in the driver’s cab of the Class 150 vehicles.
Unipart Rail provided a solution to the
challenge through the design of a new diffuser panel.
Code
Conversion Unit
has been proven in service to improve
reliability, reduce power consumption,
reduce mass and reduce potential
failure modes.
from Finland, were set the challenge of
developing a new damper to replace the
existing Woodhead and Pegasus units,
fitted to BT 10 bogies.
Dampers
for B10 Bogie (MK3 Fleets)
Collaborative Working
and 44001
In response to industry and customer
needs, Unipart Rail has been certified
firstly to the BS11000 and then to the
subsequent ISO 44001 standard for
Collaborative Business Relationship
Management Systems.
TPWSfour© For ETCS
equipped trains
Unipart Rail’s TPWSfour and AWS systems, which are designed and manufactured in house, are equipped with the latest Evo control unit are fully compatible with the rail industry standards and ETCS requirements and have proven high levels of reliability in service.
Train Operating Company Case Studies
Freightliner
SmartServe Solution
were opening a new depot and were looking for
an innovative solution that would support their maintenance activities. Unipart Rail’s SmartServe solution provides a flexible and scalable solution that can be fine-tuned to customer requirements.
Unipart Rail’s World Class depot stores facility
was operational in less than 3 months,
delivering fantastic results including 98% stock accuracy, 97% availability and 50%
reduction in defects.
Northern Rail
Depot Stores Management
and effectiveness of South West Train’s stores, enabling them to improve their service to production and reducing visits to the stores by 54%.
South West Trains
Lean Depot Stores
Irish Rail
Transforming the Supply Chain
Following a diagnostic, a programme was developed to work with Iarnród Eireann employees to deliver improvements across the Supply Chain and develop their own Lean internal capability.
Metro Trains Melbourne PTY ltd approached Unipart Rail’s Expert practitioners to complete a diagnostic across their total supply chain, using their structured and standardised approach.
MTM
Supply Chain Diagnostics
undertake a diagnostic study at their light maintenance depot stores operations.
Results included costs savings of 20% and increased material availability to 98%.
Sydney Trains
Depot Stores Diagnostic
Yarra Trams
Visualisation Hub
The imminent move to a new head office
building presented an opportunity for a
dedicated visualisation room for this
purpose, with the aim to cascade this
model throughout the business.
Chiltern Railways
Wildlife Garden Project
area to both encourage wildlife to return,
and to provide an area where depot
colleagues could take breaks away from
the working environment in a calm and
pleasant space.
TrackPan Installation at
Perth Train Depot
A bespoke solution for waste water management for a customer installing a new train wash facility in Perth train depot.
Collaborative Working
and 44001
In response to industry and customer
needs, Unipart Rail has been certified
firstly to the BS11000 and then to the
subsequent ISO 44001 standard for
Collaborative Business Relationship
Management Systems.
TPWSfour© For ETCS
equipped trains
Unipart Rail’s TPWSfour and AWS systems, which are designed and manufactured in house, are equipped with the latest Evo control unit are fully compatible with the rail industry standards and ETCS requirements and have proven high levels of reliability in service.
Compressor Service/
Refurbishment
Compressors were a completely new product stream for our business, but our skills in creating new overhaul processes, test procedures and developing staff skills meant that this was a straightforward challenge for us.
CAMCO Visualisation
Centre
A Visualisation Centre was implemented and CAMCO employees were trained in Lean Tools and Techniques, Visual Management and Effective team meetings.
Freight Operating Company Case Studies
Freightliner
SmartServe Solution
were opening a new depot and were looking for
an innovative solution that would support their maintenance activities. Unipart Rail’s SmartServe solution provides a flexible and scalable solution that can be fine-tuned to customer requirements.
Northern Rail
Depot Stores Management
Unipart Rail’s World Class depot stores facility
was operational in less than 3 months,
delivering fantastic results including 98% stock accuracy, 97% availability and 50%
reduction in defects.
Collaborative Working
and 44001
In response to industry and customer
needs, Unipart Rail has been certified
firstly to the BS11000 and then to the
subsequent ISO 44001 standard for
Collaborative Business Relationship
Management Systems.
TPWSfour© For ETCS
equipped trains
Unipart Rail’s TPWSfour and AWS systems, which are designed and manufactured in house, are equipped with the latest Evo control unit are fully compatible with the rail industry standards and ETCS requirements and have proven high levels of reliability in service.
Train Builder Case Studies
Siemens
Performance through Engagement
Siemens Traincare staff attended
Unipart Expert Practices 1 week
Lean Academy, to learn how to
implement lean tools and techniques
within their project. Results include
98% increase in material availability.
Our engineers went back to basics
and redesigned the TPWSfour
system to develop its functionality.
TPWSfour
Product Innovation
undertake a diagnostic study at their light maintenance depot stores operations.
Results included costs savings of 20% and increased material availability to 98%.
Door Diagnostics
Axle Storage
2 and 4 set
The design and manufacturing challenge was to create train axle storage units that could accommodate 2 or 4 axle sets that offered full protection of the axle and was stackable 5 high.
Falcon 2
Rail Lifting Hoist
Ferrartis were asked to improve the design and performance of an existing winch which was used on the front of a track maintenance vehicle to lift rails.
The storage of wheelsets has traditionally been on racking that does not allow for the easy inspection and rotation of the wheels.
Dynamic Wheelset
Carrier Systems
UGL Maintrain
Supply Chain Diagnostic
Unipart Rail worked with the UGL Maintrain
team to complete a Diagnostic activity in
order to understand how the Supply Chain operation could be improved.
Siemens
Spares Support Bogie overhaul
Unipart Rail was awarded a prestigious
contract to overhaul Siemens Class 444
bogies at its Production Business Unit (PBU)
in Doncaster. The requirement was to overhaul 450 bogies over a period of 13 months
The biggest tram depot redevelopment in Melbourne’s history transformed Preston Workshops into a state-of-the-art facility for new generation E-Class trams.
Yarra Trams
Transformation
Southern
Performance Through Engagement
Southern Railway approached Unipart to
conduct a strategic review of their spares
and storage capacity across all of their four depots, with the objective of generating a
storage strategy that would meet the changing needs of the business, without a major
investment in capital.
Collaborative Working
and 44001
In response to industry and customer
needs, Unipart Rail has been certified
firstly to the BS11000 and then to the
subsequent ISO 44001 standard for
Collaborative Business Relationship
Management Systems.
TPWSfour© For ETCS
equipped trains
Unipart Rail’s TPWSfour and AWS systems, which are designed and manufactured in house, are equipped with the latest Evo control unit are fully compatible with the rail industry standards and ETCS requirements and have proven high levels of reliability in service.
Rolling Stock Maintainer and Overhauler Case Studies
Freightliner
SmartServe Solution
were opening a new depot and were looking for
an innovative solution that would support their maintenance activities. Unipart Rail’s SmartServe solution provides a flexible and scalable solution that can be fine-tuned to customer requirements.
Dampers
for B10 Bogie (MK3 Fleets)
from Finland, were set the challenge of
developing a new damper to replace the
existing Woodhead and Pegasus units,
fitted to BT 10 bogies.
and effectiveness of South West Train’s stores, enabling them to improve their service to production and reducing visits to the stores by 54%.
South West Trains
Lean Depot Stores
Siemens
Performance through Engagement
Siemens Traincare staff attended
Unipart Expert Practices 1 week
Lean Academy, to learn how to
implement lean tools and techniques
within their project. Results include
98% increase in material availability.
As a result of the Unipart Rail programme, Northern Rail have produced excellent improvements in reliability and availability. These include 50% reduction in open defects and 46% reduction in time
Northern
Performance through Engagement
Due to the old version of TCAIDs becoming obsolete, the route services team worked with Unipart Rail to re-engineer the equipment by removing the older, unreliable circuitry and replacing it with digital components that provide far greater resilience.
Wessex Leaf-Fall Track Circuit Solution
Collaborative Working
and 44001
In response to industry and customer
needs, Unipart Rail has been certified
firstly to the BS11000 and then to the
subsequent ISO 44001 standard for
Collaborative Business Relationship
Management Systems.
CAMCO Visualisation
Centre
A Visualisation Centre was implemented and CAMCO employees were trained in Lean Tools and Techniques, Visual Management and Effective team meetings.
Contractor Case Studies
Collaborative Working
and 44001
In response to industry and customer
needs, Unipart Rail has been certified
firstly to the BS11000 and then to the
subsequent ISO 44001 standard for
Collaborative Business Relationship
Management Systems.
Balfour Beatty
Remote Warehouse
stockholding by 95% and stock value
by over £140,000 within a year, with
availability and performance increasing
at the same time.
VolkerRail
Supply Chain Services
for VolkerRail, providing them with a continuous supply of materials and full support during a Christmas ‘blockade’.
Staffordshire Alliance
Offsite Factory
solution for The Staffordshire Alliance to
solve the problems they faced when fabricating and storing complex overhead line equipment.
Babcock
Commissioning Spares
Babcock was delivering the Coleraine to Derry~ Londonderry project in Northern Ireland and needed a reliable supply chain provider to support the entire project delivery.
London Underground
Depot Management
Unipart Rail created a ‘Model Line’ satellite depot for London Underground. The new system provided them with Underground with greater understanding of their ‘product flow’ procedures and the practicality of the depot layout was drastically improved.
Atkins
Feltham Project
The project required improved material controls
to provide a more efficient process for material location and identification when on site.
Atkins
Relocatable Equipment Buildings
Unipart Rail’s specially designed equipment minimises trackside installation time and the carefully co-ordinated logistics process ensures a safe environment for all workers.
Atkins
Feltham Emergency Materials
The Feltham Phase 1 project took place over a 12-18 month period and was segregated into individual work packages, with time bound critical delivery schedules.
Infrastructure Owner Case Studies
Collaborative Working
and 44001
In response to industry and customer
needs, Unipart Rail has been certified
firstly to the BS11000 and then to the
subsequent ISO 44001 standard for
Collaborative Business Relationship
Management Systems.
Network Rail
Partnering Renewals
During the Wigan to Preston Blockade,
Unipart Rail’s procurement and supplier management skills, meant that all materials
were procured, and made available
at the right places, at the right time.
Zero
Maintenance Signalling
for signals in locations where they are exposed
to free falling rain. It is estimated that this will reduce maintenance costs by over £4,061,000
over the life of the signals.
Babcock
Commissioning Spares
Derry~ Londonderry project in
Northern Ireland and needed a reliable
supply chain provider to support the
entire project delivery.
Network Rail
Point Machine Refurbishment
machine repair process has achieved a
cost-saving for Network Rail of £750,000
against the purchase of new machines,
an overall saving of 50%.
MTM
Supply Chain Diagnostics
Metro Trains Melbourne PTY ltd approached Unipart Rail’s Expert practitioners to complete a diagnostic across their total supply chain, using their structured and standardised approach.
WigWag Innovation
Centres of Excellence to develop a
complete new WigWag which not only
had much higher luminous intensity,
but also an improved ‘tilt’ mechanism
for local adjustment.
Alstom
Materials Reclamation
When Alstom were planning to de-mobilise
their Peterborough stores, they turned to
Unipart Rail to manage the process
London Underground
Depot Management
Unipart Rail worked closely with Balfour
Beatty to identify their precise material requirements, by helping the customer
to focus on their exact needs, it eliminated
over-stocking and allowed the stores to be arranged in a logical way.
Sydney Trains Order Process
The objective of this project was to reduce
lead time of product from a customer
order being received at the REC to
the material being available for collection
by the customer.
Sydney Trains
Skill Capture
The Rail Equipment Centre (REC) had identified
a business risk due to an aging workforce with either none or very little capture of skills for the manufacture /overhaul of its products..
Atkins
Feltham Project
The project required improved material
controls
to provide a more efficient
process for material location and
identification when on site.
Wessex Leaf-Fall Track Circuit Solution
Due to the old version of TCAIDs becoming obsolete, the route services team worked with Unipart Rail to re-engineer the equipment by removing the older, unreliable circuitry and replacing it with digital components that provide far greater resilience.
PSPs and ASPs for
East of Leeds
As part of the TRU Alliance Project, Samuel James Engineering designed and manufactured Principal Supply Points (PSPs) and Auxiliary Supply Points (ASPs) for Volker Rail.
Atkins
Feltham Emergency Materials
The Feltham Phase 1 project took place over a 12-18 month period and was segregated into individual work packages, with time bound critical delivery schedules.
Sehurst REB
upgraded Manufacture
Network Rail identified there was severe CAT 4 wire degradation within an REB at London’s Selhurst Depot and reached out to Unipart Rail.