The rail industry is challenged to improve safety, reliability and quality. Rail operators must improve vehicle repair and maintenance processes. Infrastructure managers, which oversee rail networks, must similarly improve rail and equipment maintenance processes. These processes, known as maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) are the focus of this initiative.
WEBSPRING customers consist of mostly major INDIA AND AISAN freight rail companies, locomotive and railway car leasing companies. It provides a wide range of technical services ranging from train car, locomotives and related parts maintenance and repair to construction and overhaul. What differentiates WEBSPRING from its competitors is its ability to work on a wide range of locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars of differing uses and specifications.
Railways are said to produce roughly one-eighth of the carbon dioxide that automobiles emit per unit transported and are able to transport mass quantities in bulk. Such efficiency and utility in environmental conservation have led experts to predict sustained growth in rail-based infrastructure markets around the world. This is doubly true for the North American market; great progress in rail-based transportation of both cargo and passengers is expected for the future, given that the region boasts the world’s longest running train line and railway volume, exhibits long-term economic growth, plays host to a growing population, and shows an active interest in reducing environmental emissions. Additionally, sustainable growth is predicted for the railway car maintenance service industry, based on a rising demand for the MRO of train cars in order to increase the number of railway cars and locomotives in use, and the improved safety and extended lifespan of such cars.
GS1 standards that enable the unique identification of rail components and equipment items will meet the rail industry’s current and future business needs. While detailed risk and safety management is becoming increasingly important around the world, it is even becoming mandatory in upcoming regulations in many countries. Rail equipment failures are often the cause of serious safety incidents as well as delays. In many cases, these failures can be prevented through more effective maintenance programme. However, maintenance on components that do not require it is costly, and diverts resources from areas requiring attention.
Over the past five years, the shipbuilding industry has slowly sailed rough seas as demand from the military and commercial markets fluctuated. As a result of pressured military funding and recession-induced commercial backlog decline, demand for shipbuilding declined in the early part of the five-year period. However, the boom in U.S. oil and natural gas production has recently led to a surge in demand for energy-related vessels. Over the next five years, the industry is anticipated to catch more wind from renewed funding for military ships and continued demand for energy industry-related vessels. As the U.S. Navy attempts to meets its objective of creating a fleet to meet the challenges of the coming years, demand for new naval vessels will rise.
With more than 70 percent of shipbuilding industry revenue tied to the defense sector, it’s clear that defense funding and spending will have the greatest impact on shipbuilding activity moving forward. Having the ability to deliver on time and on budget will provide shipbuilders an advantage as they pursue these contracts. Shipbuilders and repair firms that do this most successfully will leverage the latest technology to manage the complex manufacturing at the core of their businesses.
