Explore our range of services designed to optimise railway Infrastructure Management. Our expertise in asset management, inspection and maintenance, health and safety and personal development ensures the efficiency and safety of your railway infrastructure. Discover how our bespoke services can help you achieve excellence and maintain the highest standards of safety within the rail industry.

Asset Management

Here at Rail Asset Management and Maintenance Services, we offer support to any organisation who wishes to improve their Asset Management capability.

Whether you are practicing at a high level or just starting on your journey, we can give bespoke support to meet your needs.

With over 22 years in the rail industry undertaking roles at almost every level, we have a unique perspective and approach which is often overly generic when relying on traditional larger scale consulting.

On top of the experience, we base our approaches on the ISO 55000 series of standards, in particular, alignment to guidance from the Institute of Asset Management and the Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management Landscape.  All the work we produce can be used to form part of your Asset Management System should this be your intention.

We provide this alignment with a unique no nonsense approach making it less generic and more specifically relevant to the organisation and/or industry we apply it to.

We can help with:

  • Organisational Context and Stakeholder Management
  • Leadership and People
  • Planning and Decision Making
  • Support, Resource and Competence
  • Operations and Maintenance Readiness
  • Operations and Maintenance Delivery
  • Evaluation and Improvement
  • Asset Breakdown Structures
  • Asset Information
  • Enterprise Asset Management Systems (EAMS) and Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
  • Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) Facilitation

Infrastructure Management

Having worked with the all the major infrastructure Managers in the UK and with private infrastructure owners, we have a broad range of national experience in every discipline.

If you are a supplier of infrastructure management, inspection and maintenance we can provide a range of services which are designed to improve each area of service provision.  The package as a whole is intended to give you a sharper professional and technical edge and/or greater confidence that you are operating most efficiently.

Services include:

  • Detailed review of current practices
  • Formalising processes and procedures
  • Helping and/or leading tendering for new contracts
  • Developing and feeding into efficient Maintenance Management Systems
  • Training Needs Analysis
  • Development planning and upskilling
  • Independent technical inspection
  • Engineers Inspection resource
  • Hand back resource

For private infrastructure, we recognise that there is often a gap between the operator and infrastructure manager/contractor.   This gap can be frustrating for both sides of the contract due to misunderstanding, misalignment of values, translation/language differences, liability confusion and general operational clashes.

We can offer a service which fills the gap, improving understanding, achieving alignment, defining liability and overall improving the performance and relationship which is key for efficient asset management.

We already work or have worked with most of the major contractors therefore we have a unique industry wide understanding of how each operate.  This allows us to additionally ensure you have the best contractor to match your values and requirements.

Services for private infrastructure owners/lessees include:

  • Detailed review of current practices
  • Formalising processes and procedures
  • Helping and/or leading tendering for new contracts
  • Independent technical review of asset condition including:
    • Engineers Inspections
    • Detailed Inspections
  • Performance review of maintenance output and communications
  • Audit of the maintenance contractor against client requirements
  • Chairing your liaison to enable continuous improvement

 

 

Health and Safety Management

Our experience spans from front line risk assessment  through to regulatory health and safety making us a great source of support for the development of your Safety Management System.  Our focus is to ensure that all aspects of railway operations and maintenance adhere to the highest safety standards.  We can identify gaps and recommend improvements, ensuring that your rail operations and maintenance meet all necessary safety requirements and provide a secure environment for operators, passengers and staff.

Our services include:

  • Risk Assessments
  • Incident Investigation
  • Assessment of your safety culture and support to improve or maintain it
  • Risk Management Maturity Model (RM3) advice

Professional Development and Mentoring

We have extensive experience in the realms of leadership and people management, particularly in training and development.  Having worked in  workforce development specialist , apprenticeship management, competence assessment and professional registration audit roles our breadth of experience puts us in a unique position to support your people.

Services we can offer are:

  • Training course content review
  • Training course content creation
  • Competence assessment
  • Setting out role based competency frameworks
  • Promoting Professional Institutions
  • Advice and guidance on Professional Registration
  • Internal Audit of quality control processes
  • 1-2-1 coaching and mentoring
  • Seminars, Webinars and general awareness presentations.