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Wednesday, 18 June 2008

08:00 Registration and refreshments
   
09:00 Plenary session I
  Chairman’s welcome
Dr Clive Roberts, University of Birmingham, UK
  
09:15 Keynote Address - Creating an Intelligent Rail Infrastructure
Steve Yianni, Director of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Network Rail, UK
  
10:00 Refreshments and exhibition
   
Session A1: Rolling Stock I – Fleet Management
Chairman: Dr Jens Nielsen, Chalmers University, Sweden
  
10:30 Improving Fleet Performance by Automatic Analysis of Enhanced “Black Box” OTMR Data
A K Burchell, HSBC Rail (UK) Ltd, UK
S R Green, New Southern Railway Ltd, UK
   
11:00 TAPAS – Delivering Near Real Time Analysis of in Service “Black Box” OTMR Data
N J Clarke, Tessella Support Services, UK
   
11:30 Condition Monitoring on the Class 390 Pendolino
K Prendergast, Alstom Transport, UK
   
Session B1: Signalling Equipment I
Chairman: Ian Mitchell, Delta Rail, UK
  
10:30 Developments in Track Circuit Condition Monitoring
A H Millar, Bombardier Transportation RCS, UK
  
11:00 Formal Validation Method and Tools for French Computerized Railway Interlocking Systems
A M Antoni, N Ammad, SNCF, France
  
11:30 Binary Decision Diagrams Applied to Fault Tree Analysis
F P Garcia Márquez, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
  
12:00 A Universal Approach to Points Condition Monitoring
D C Shaw, Siemens plc, UK
  
12:30 Lunch and exhibition
   
Session A2: System Integration I
Chairman: Steve Yianni, Network Rail, UK
  
13:30 RailSense®: Improving Reliability and Availability of Rail Assets through Dynamic Modeling
P Boom, Lloyd’s Register Rail, The Netherlands
E de Geus, DySI, The Netherlands
  
14:00 Monitoring of Rail Freight Wagons in Europe with Support of EUREKA Projects
P Kroca, JERID, The Czech Republic
  
14:30 RCM Data Integration – Ontologies and the Third Tier...
J Elphick, Atkins, UK
R W Lewis, C Roberts, University of Birmingham, UK
J Elphick, Atkins, UK
   
15:00 Utilising Appropriate Information Technology to Support Railway Condition Monitoring
D I Pitty, D Tickem, Network Rail, UK
   
Session B2: Infrastructure I - Track Measurements
Chairman: Dr Patrice Aknin, INRETS, France
   
13:30 Condition Monitoring of Railway Track and Driver Using In-Service Vehicle
H Tsunashima, T Kojima, Y Marumo, Nihon University, Japan
A Matsumoto, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan
T Mizuma, National Traffic Safety and Environment Laboratory, Japan
   
14:00 Condition Monitoring of Shinkansen Track Using Commercial Trains
Y Naganuma, M Kobayashi, M Nakagawa, T Okumura, Central Japan Railway Company, Japan
   
14:30 A New Approach of Assessing Rail Roughness
J Spännar, Banverket, Sweden
   
15:00 Estimation of Long Wavelength Track Irregularities from on Board Measurement
S Alfi, S Bruni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
   
15:30 Refreshments and exhibition
   
Session A3: System Integration II – The InteGRail European Project
Chairman: Dr Jon Elphick, Atkins, UK
   
16:00 From RCM to Predictive Maintenance: The InteGRail Approach
R Shingler, Bombardier, UK
G Fadin, FAR Systems, Italy
P Umiliacchi, CNC, Italy
   
16:30 Ontology Driven Railway RCM Data Integration
G Langer, Siemens AG, Germany
R W Lewis, C Roberts, University of Birmingham, UK
   
17:00 Engineering Knowledge-Based Condition Analyzers for On-Board Intelligent Fault Classification: A Case Study
C Brignone, F Narteni, G Villa, Bombardier Transportation, Italy
M De Luca, L Nana, Medservice.com, Italy
   
Session B3: Asset Management and Reliability Analysis I
Chairman: Guillaume Foeillet, SNCF, France
   
16:00 The Role of Remote Condition Monitoring in a Modern Railway
M D Bint, ACIC International Ltd, UK
   
16:30 Advanced Maintenance Inspection on DMU Trains
A Chater, PCMSEng, UK
   
17:00 Reducing Vehicle Maintenance Using Condition Monitoring and Dynamic Planning
M Bohlin, M Forsgren, A Holst, B Levin, M Aronsson, R Steinert, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
   
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