Following the successful testing of TrainScanner predictive maintenance prototype on Virgin’s fleet of Pendolino trains in Manchester, Alstom announced that a second investment in a new machine will go ahead at Oxley depot near Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. This second TrainScanner will represent a significant upgrade in Alstom’s high tech maintenance capability on the West Coast Main Line and demonstrates that the predictive maintenance tool is ready for mainstream deployment across train fleets worldwide.
By having two machines at two depots out of five on the West Coast Main Line, it will ensure that Pendolino trains get a maintenance scan every five days on average. Seeing the same train every five days creates the opportunity to make much more detailed assessments of the condition of the equipment.
TrainScanner is part of Alstom’s HealthHub, a predictive maintenance solution o determine the status of rolling stock, infrastructure and signalling automatically, and to identify any components that need to be repaired or changed and the replacement date.
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