Types of Engineering Strategies in Rail Engineering Equipment

PROJECT REATK4- 7C

Table of Contents
Q1. Describe the types of engineering strategies associated with the rail engineering
equipment.....................................................................................................................................3
Q2. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different strategies to complete engineering
activities in the rail engineering industry.....................................................................................8
Q3. Justify the procedures employed for a given rail engineering situation.............................12
Q4. Evaluate the process for recording and documenting engineering activities to ensure
compliance.................................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................21

Q1. Describe the types of engineering strategies associated with the rail engineering
equipment.
The life cycle of the product comprise with design and development, manufacture,
testing and commissioning, product introduction, training and product support.
Bombardier Transportation can adopt certain engineering strategies such as Reliability
Availability Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
(FMEA).
Engineering Product Life Cycle
Design and Development: research and product development is among the key
practice that is adopted in engineering field (Chang and Phang, 2017). RAMS system
contain a direct impact over profit through lost production and maintenance costs so
that engineers get to analysis about the ways to increase certain system productivity,
increase overall business profit and to reduce the total life cycle costs that include
production costs, maintenance costs which will include loss costs through component
modifications and operating costs.
 Reliability- is identified the feature that highlighted with the fact that the system is
working over a specific period of time.
 Availability- is more like performing the assigned role with available resources.
 Maintainability- is more like sustaining the quality of products and services to
deliver the best level of operational efficiency.
 Safety- is more like securing the life of the passengers.
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a practice highlight about all potential
failures. “Failure modes” indicate about certain ways that a system has failed using

FMEA guide. This further allocate certain ways to overcome the system failures. An
FMEA provides the following steps: Select process. Describe process or product in detail. Identify associate failures. Identification of an expected consequences. Identifies the possible causes of failures. Assigns and ranks the failures by severity, occurrences, and detection. Plans and implements any changes. Project result from the changes.
Manufacturing: Engineers will give directions towards helping out preparing drawing
layouts and further detailed which include electrical, mechanical, and pneumatical
drawings (schematics) (Chen and et.al., 2018). Manufacturing is among the core
approach that will support the stakeholder to approach the whole process of
manufacturing become more cost efficient. This is an obvious factor that financial
resources are limited in number which require the stakeholder to make the process
more cost friendly.
Testing and Assurance: right before the product is launched testing is done. This is a
practice that involve assessing the efficiency of the product. Testing is all about
measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of the process. Other testing and
assurances consist of the following:

 Engineering support, certification, assessments, case studies, safety cases, and
recommendations.
 Warranty support.
 Product hardware implementation, installation, testing, and validation.
 Vendor and supplier identification, selection, and recommendation.
 Product safety analysis and verification.
Product Introduction: is the final stage involve in launching the product. Once the
product is fully developed this is introduced in front of the target customers in market.
This further involve prohecting all core features associated with the product.
Training and Product Support: trainings that can be allocated involve European Train
Control System (ETCS), Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC), and Train
Control Monitoring System (TCMS) (de Miranda Pinto and et.al., 2018). Documentation
such as Vehicle Maintenance Instructions (VMI’s) and Vehicle Maintenance Procedures
(VMP’s) which provide complete details about the product.
Maintenance: include a range of fleet, asset, and infrastructure solutions that also
includes operations, maintenance, and overhauls. The main aim of maintenance is to
identify the faults and make necessary changes. Fleet maintenance consists of the
following:
 Rolling stock maintenance over all types of fleet and models.
 Maintenance regime development and optimisation.
 Maintenance planning and scheduling.
 FRACAS, RAMS, and FMEA reliability and availability management.
 Training development programme.
 Warranty support and extended warranty agreements.
 Component repair, overhaul, supply, and management.
 Total asset life management programs.
 Product life cycle management is a process include a range of different
marketing and production strategies, which geared towards identifying the
product life cycle curve.
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Maintenance Methods
 Maintenance is a process that involve asset care with support of operational and
maintenance strategies.
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 Corrective Maintenance: is a type of maintenance process involve identify,
isolate, and corrects defects (Dunsford and Chatzimichailidou, 2020). This give
emphasis over correction of maintenance process.
 Preventive Maintenance: is to take certain measures to isolate opr overcome
the potential risk of asset.
Predictive Maintenance: is a maintenance process involve verifying physical variables
such as temperature, vibration, and power consumption.
Zero Hours Maintenance: involve conducting maintenance activity over a whole wheel
set, cardan-shafts, intermediate couplers, and compressors as examples. The basic
idea is to conduct the zero hour review of the product by assuming that the equipment
or machinery is new.
Periodic Maintenance (Time Based Maintenance TBM): involve a series of
elementary tasks (data collections, visual inspections, cleaning, lubrication, retightening