MORE THAN 100,000 DATA CAN BE RECORDED DAILY AT ALSTOM’S PINTO SITE. THE DIGITAL SERVICES TEAM CAN ANALYSE AND INTERPRET THIS DATA TO KNOW, AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT, THE “HEALTH” OF EACH TRAIN.
The ultimate goal of the entire maintenance process, whether through digitalisation or workshop operations, is to increase a fleet’s reliability and availability. Alstom’s Digital Services centre in Pinto (Madrid) operates under this premise, a unit specialising in developing cutting-edge technologies, such as Big Data or IoT, for fleet monitoring, workshop planning and real-time incident resolution.
Only two years after its start-up, the Digital Services centre in Pinto is already a benchmark within the Group and in Spain. From there, it works to support fleets of different types of trains and operators with HealthHubTM technology, Alstom’s tool for digital and preventive maintenance.
A series of sensors installed on board the trains precisely monitor the functions and performance of the rolling stock. More than 100,000 data can be recorded daily at Alstom’s Pinto site. Thanks to the application of algorithms and artificial intelligence, the Digital Services team can analyse and interpret this data to know, at any given moment, the “health” of each train.
HealthHub shows the information through graphs, maps and tables, enabling both the preventive and efficient planning of maintenance processes and, on some occasions, the immediate solution of minor incidents in the station itself, which significantly increases the availability of trains, reducing incidents and delays during operation.
Thanks to the application of these cutting-edge technologies, the life cycle of the equipment is also increased, as replacements are made when the equipment deteriorates and not according to fixed deadlines. This immediately translates into more efficient maintenance, with significant cost savings and improvements in equipment reliability.