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Whether your program is Remote Condition Monitoring (RCM), Intelligent Infrastructure or Sensor Based Maintenance, the goal is the same: harnessing remote sensing with data collection and analysis to transform the way you operate and maintain rail assets. However, there are numerous pitfalls that can make you regret decisions taken early in the project development lifecycle.

Delivering reliable performance from assets is one of the key objectives of maintenance organizations. After all, organizations only own assets for the purpose of delivering their service and when they fail, the ability to serve customers is compromised. Despite this, many organizations struggle to maintain reliability and often become caught in a cycle of firefighting and reacting to failures instead of addressing the root causes.

Asset intensive industries such as railroads need to maintain good engineering control over their operations to demonstrate to themselves, funders, regulators, the public and other stakeholders that they can manage risk to the lowest practicable level.