Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) is a large Regional Railroad running from the Port of Miami north to Jacksonville over 351 mainline track miles.  FEC boasts one of the best service reliability records in the United States and with this service commitment, management demands a high level of performance excellence from its operating assets.  Locomotives represent a significant capital investment and the availability of the 50+ unit fleet is critical to the success of FEC and its customers.

Locomotive maintenance is a daily activity at FEC from short inspections on each unit before work begins for the day to complete 92 day or other interval servicings per Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) requirements to extensive unit overhauls.  The variability and frequency of work was demanding for the organization to manage on paper and so FEC implemented AssetPro Locomotive to manage these requirements and support organizational excellence.

AssetPro Locomotive integrates with on-board asset health monitoring equipment and 3^rd party oil analysis services providing automated system email or text alerts so management can make decisions in real time, often precluding costly critical equipment failures and service interruptions.  Locomotive crews contact the Dispatcher’s office to report road failures triggering the same automated alert system.  Automated system flags ensure these types of issues are managed to closure for each asset.

Base AssetPro Locomotive functionality supports meeting all corporate maintenance management and regulatory compliance requirements through standardized electronic workflow management.  Granular historical information is available for each unit in the event of incident or asset disposition.  Warranty and Cores Tracking along with a parts subsystem are new functionality to AssetPro Locomotive providing additional financial and operational management capabilities.

RailAmerica is a railroad holding company with 45 properties distributed throughout the United States and Canada.  The company desired to improve management of required monthly and other periodic interval inspections along with related recordkeeping for internal management and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Regulatory Compliance purposes.

Using the AssetPro™ Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) platform, AssetPro Signal™ was configured and installed at all RailAmerica properties.  Signal Maintainers with wireless-equipped laptop or tablet computers complete easy to navigate electronic forms capture the required work for each inspection.  In certain cases, paper forms are still used to capture inspection data then the system is updated.

Corporate level visibility of field operations has significantly improved as permission-based user levels allow Signal Department management to see the global operational picture.  The Query Engine allows for easy sorting of data by region, railroad or subdivision.  Status of inspections is shown through various system icons for all users.

Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad (IHB) is the largest switch carrier in the United States handling interchange traffic for several Class 1 and other trunk line railroads in the greater Chicago and northern Indiana area.  IHB handles in excess of 600,000 carloads annually and has approximately 750 operating employees.  It is a high intensity operation in the heart of the nation’s rail network.

Tired of managing the workload and complexities of its Safety and Operational Testing/Training program on paper, IHB installed SafeTrack to streamline its processes and improve its safety culture, ultimately resulting in a Gold Harriman Award in 2009.  The management and employees at IHB are directly responsible for this great Safety achievement, but SafeTrack provided the platform to better manage their training/testing program.

As a dynamic electronic recordkeeping system, SafeTrack improved overall program visibility, illustrated program trends for analysis and remediation and facilitated a balanced schedule to ensure all employees meet their annual Regulatory and Corporate testing/training requirements.  Ad Hoc and predefined report capabilities quickly provide system data output relevant to the organization.  Use of SafeTrack minimizes the time Supervisors spend in the office doing paperwork so they can spend more time in the field productively working with their people.

MaxAccel has developed one of the most innovative and comprehensive suites of EAM and compliance management software available today.

The AssetPro and SafeTrack product suite is uniquely different from any other EAM product suite – it manages all three asset types – Fixed, Rolling and Human – instead of just the first two.  The visibility created around the interrelationships between Human and Fixed or Rolling assets provides an organization valuable and unique insights previously not available to the industry.

Our executive leadership team has extensive experience developing and delivering engineered solutions to equipment intensive and safety intensive industries. Our suite of products provides practical tools for businesses challenged with management of large capital equipment investments and safety critical operations.

The Technology

Delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS) via the web or intranet; the solutions are powerful, flexible and affordable.

MaxAccel employs open source web technology based on a flexible, proprietary database framework.  Dynamic, stable and secure applications are delivered to your company for office, shop or field.

AssetPro is a market leading EAM and Regulatory Compliance Software product suite for Fixed and Rolling Transportation Assets proven in the marketplace over the last six years.

The value and success of an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution can be measured by an organization in terms of how it helps manage and control maintenance and related costs while supporting compliance management activities in a user friendly fashion.

MaxAccel’s web-based solutions provide a cost effective and powerful means to manage your organization’s maintenance management activities and regulatory compliance requirements. Easy to deploy and easy to use, AssetPro modules are completely configurable to your organization’s needs.

Benefits:

• Increased reliability and availability of equipment through standardized maintenance processes and improved technician efficiency
• Reduced operational costs through system cost control methodologies
• Financial transparency and user accountability for all system activities
• Real time asset status and condition provides accurate decision making capabilities
• Manage all Regulatory Compliance requirements with ease
• Powerful standardized and ad hoc reporting capabilities to manage historical data retrieval in ways relevant to the organization
• Capabilities to integrate asset health monitoring and telematics data

Applications:

Rolling Assets: Locomotives, Light Rail Vehicles, Buses, Fleet Vehicles, MOW Equipment and other rolling stock

Fixed Assets: Signal + Communications Systems, Catenary, Track, Bridge, Shop and Work Equipment