In the past years, there has been a massive push to digitalisation in all areas of the Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group. With "BOOM" Software, it has also found its way into the maintenance of special vehicles and freight wagons.
In parallel to the digitalisation of Disposition (Scheduling) and EVU (Railway Companies), the ECM area (Entity in Charge of Maintenance) is also to be gradually included in this change and linked to it. The means to this end is the well-established maintenance software BOOM, with which maintenance procedures for Sersa Maschineller Gleisbau, Sersa Group Switzerland (Maintenance), JumboTec and Bahnbau Wels are optimised. The objective is to implement a complete digital procedure in all four firms.
Currently, the structure of vehicle data (component structure of vehicles, definition of operations, check lists, maintenance planning etc.) is initialised on the production system. To ensure that operations are completed efficiently, the next step is to connect the ERP’s via an interface. The complete digitalisation of processes offers further potential for more innovations.
There is a clear added value to be gained from the change: The system models all ECM-relevant areas and supports RSRG on its path to paperless maintenance management. Thanks to the high data transparency, jobs can only be closed when all items have been completed. Substantial optimisations are achieved in parts ordering and in process flows by means of interfaces to equipment. For vehicles in our own fleet and also clients’ vehicles, complete digital documentation of working procedures including proof of maintenance can be provided for each vehicle. There is a seamless life cycle file, so to speak, for a vehicle and/or its components.
The operational personnel in the workshops also benefit. For example, signatures will in future be replaced by an automatic digital user signature. Data from peripheral systems can be transferred directly to Boom via an interface. Work allocation efficiency is increased and the task of archiving analog files is eliminated.
Moreover, once the system is connected to the “Dispo” and “EVU” modules, maintenance scheduling can be perfectly coordinated with usage and transport.
