• Improving business value through the intelligent application of signal and control systems
• Signal and control systems through the eyes of business stakeholders
• The business responsibility of the signal and control systems engineer

• What is Law? - Civil and Criminal Law
• Who makes the Law?
• Types of Law
• An overview of typical Agreements
• Intellectual Property Law

Whole Life Asset Management
Gab Parris, Signalling Maintenance & Assurance Engineer, London Underground Ltd

The paper will help readers learn the basics of how to get the make sure that signalling system assets remain safe and reliable. In particular it will cover:

• What is maintenance - the difference between corrective and preventive
• Understanding the asset base, what condition the assets are in and how to recognise when that condition is changing
• Determining the level of preventive maintenance required (the same asset may need different levels of maintenance dependant on location)
• Purpose of failure analysis - to look for root cause and then review maintenance processes to prevent a recurrence
• Managing planned maintenance and improving planned maintenance based on experience
• Managing (and reducing the need for) reactive maintenance - reliability centred maintenance
• Other things that you need to do to keep the railway safe and reliable What does industry good practice (and asset management theory say)

• Business and Operator requirements and constraints
• Transport demand forecasting
• Developing business choices and specifications
• Improvements to reliability, regulation, information and security
• Effect of future technology and project implementation