Implementing innovative solutions to transform rail operations

Webinar Speaker: Thomas Böhm, Chief Data Scientist, KONUX

Switches and crossings (S&Cs) are responsible for 20 to 30 per cent of infrastructure-related delays, making them one of the most important assets in the railway infrastructure. Globally, over €12 billion is spent each year on maintaining and replacing S&Cs.

For infrastructure asset owners, it is hugely advantageous to know not only what their asset health is today, but also how it will develop in the future, which maintenance actions yielded the best results and how network traffic, as a whole, has deviated from the plan.

In this webinar, we will share case studies of how KONUX is applying artificial intelligence to help infrastructure managers in several countries switch to Predictive and Prescriptive Maintenance to improve network capacity, reliability and cost-efficiency.

Webinar Speaker: Annelies Stevens, Manager of Switches, Infrabel

Annelies graduated in 1999 as a civil engineer in materials science at the University of Ghent. After her studies, she joined the national railway company as team lead of the mechanical department in the materials laboratory. Besides routine mechanical testing, Annelies studied different types of failures on all sorts of components for trains and railway infrastructure. In 2010, Annelies started to work in Infrabel’s Inspection Department, responsible for the quality assessment of the important suppliers of railway infrastructure components such as rails, sleepers, frogs and much more. In 2015, she became the Manager of Switches at Infrabel, responsible for the design and maintenance rules for turnouts. Since her arrival, the priority is the industrialisation of turnouts on concrete sleepers and reducing the maintenance costs.