Description of the procurement
Due to the increase in commuter volumes, planned fleet expansions and technical enhancement requirements associated with the move to a Traffic Management System, Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail (IÉ), had identified the need to enhance its fleet management capability.
Rolling stock maintenance (locomotives, units, carriages, wagons, or other vehicles) is managed by SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM), this system monitors key activities that include inspection, notifications, corrective and preventive maintenance, repairs, and other measures to maintain an ideal technical system. Future stock availability is not known to the train planning system.
In addition, the traffic management system can use of real time rolling stock formation information to support route planning, conflict management and resolution, ensure fleet compliance with infrastructure and improve customer service functions, providing a better service to customers and staff.
The new fleet management system must:
• be able to integrate with existing systems, such as TPS, TMS and SAP PM using Mulesoft;
• should the timetable change, the updates should be incorporated into train consists planning with transparent changes that allows for optimisation;
• facilitate strategic decision-making by identifying potential efficiency improvements as well as potential cost reductions;
• manage the individual traction units as well as the carriages;
• integrate with our SAP PM (Plant Maintenance) system and detail conflicts on the maintenance system before committing the train on future timetables;
• integrate with TMS to provide information on real-time rolling stock formations, including changes to the rolling stock roster used as the basis of each train timetable;
• be able to determine (For long term plans) what rolling stock maintenance schedules there are, as-well-as know when in the future the rolling stock will be unavailable;
• have the ability to calculate planned distance (kilometres) and predict the maintenance schedule;
• integrate with the Train planning system to obtain current or planned timetables. It must confirm, according to availability, if the proposed timetable changes can be applied to the roster and highlight any roster conflicts;
• be able to integrate the timetables seamlessly from the TPS and must take any changes to the timetable into account by highlighting the resulting issues in the rolling stock rosters;
• configurable rules depending on the type of rolling stock, for other additional services and planned maintenance work;
• be able to manage the individual Traction units as well as the carriages;
• have an optimisation function that can create and update multi-day rolling stock rosters;
• multiple user levels i.e. depot level, traffic control overall view, management level fleet analysis, reporting etc.