NEM Solutions and HTM Work Together to Improve Wheel Maintenance

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HTM, the tram operator and maintainer in the Haaglanden region (The Netherlands), is working together with NEM Solutions to improve their tram wheel maintenance process as part of HTMs efforts to continuously improve the technical reliability of the rail system to support the already high level of service to their customers. With this continuous improvement HTM is also looking for resource optimisation.

NEM Solutions Tram Wheel Maintenance

NEM Solutions has designed a HTM specific roadmap for improving the wheel maintenance, with the ultimate goal of predictability and overall efficiency through Operation and Maintenance costs reduction. This roadmap has been divided into four main areas: Data ACQUISITION, Data MANAGEMENT, Data ANALYSIS and wheel wear OPTIMIZATION . Implementation of this roadmap is a joint effort where HTM and NEM Solutions work closely together, both contributing to get the best result which adds the most value at that specific point of the learning curve.

To facilitate the continuous improvement cycle in the long term, NEM Solutions is implementing A.U.R.A. Wheel, a tool for optimum wheel life cycle management and analysis, to meet the demand for information with the wheel maintenance process.

NEM Solutions has vast experience in the railway market as an advisor in Wheel Life Extension projects as well as in Business Driven Data Management solutions. Its Consultancy Services are complemented by the implementation of A.U.R.A. wheel technology for an optimum wheel life cycle management and analysis. Currently, A.U.R.A. wheel is a knowledge base of more than 36.000.000 wheel measurements, 40.000 cars, and 150 installations worldwide.