Background
As part of Sydney Trains’ (ST) transition to a new corporate EAM system, it identified a need for advanced decision analytics that could optimize their asset management outcomes in terms of cost, risk and performance.
To select and prioritize annual works programs, ST wanted a multi-variant, model-based analysis to identify the best asset management outcome. This analysis required the balancing of:
- Asset condition vs.
- Asset criticality vs.
- Risk vs.
- Time and cost for maintenance vs.
- Resources vs.
- Access or availability for maintenance
Delivering on customer needs
Brightly — later acquired by Siemens — delivered the project using the established methodology of “Diagnose – Construct and Calibrate – Outputs,” across the following five steps:
- Collated data based on generational assessment criteria and data availability
- Model development workshop established when, why, how and where ST wanted to intervene as part of their renewal strategy
- Detailed remaining data requirements to ST, to help ensure the model is completed in a way that delivers all required outputs
- Model calibration involved collaboration with key ST stakeholders to confirm that data, intervention points, prioritization and finalized work program was correct and in line with ST’s renewal strategy
- Assets handed over all outputs; visualizations of ST’s strategy and scenario alternatives using Esri online story maps was integral in communicating the strategic asset management outcomes to decision makers at ST
Engaging stakeholders and achieving business goals
The ability to display multiple future asset scenarios on spatial layers enabled powerful senior stakeholder engagement and was integral to overall project success.
The project outputs fed directly into key corporate documentation, including:
- Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP)
- Asset Maintenance Plans (AMP)
- Annual Work Program (AWP)
“The outcomes of our work with Brightly [now Siemens] have enabled us to achieve some important high-level business objectives. We have various works program scenarios and what-if analyses considering asset condition, criticality, degradation and location,” says Grant Burton, General Manager Asset Management at Sydney Trains.