4^Th Annual Middle East Rail Opportunities.

On 6^th and 7^th OXplus is attending the Middle East Rail Opportunities organized by Fleming Gulf.

The Kingdom of  Saudi Arabia is currently undergoing a major metamorphosis. It is expected to infuse $45 Billion in establishing a railway network across the region which includes projects like the Saudi Landbridge, North-South Railway Line, Haramain High Speed Rail, GCC Rail, Riyadh Light Railway and Makkah Metro. The total length of the railway line is expected to be 7000 kms which certainly is enabling Saudi Arabia live up to its aim of having the railway network in place. The 2 day conference on Rail Opportunities across the Middle East to be held in Saudi Arabia will focus on the current status of the projects and hear about the latest technologies in railway systems from the experts.

We are looking forward to meeting all the interesting people there. For more information on the event click here.

Next week Sunday, 3^rd of March, is the kickoff of IBM Pulse 2013! This event takes place in the MGM Grand Conference Center, Las Vegas. The four main topics of the event are: Cloud and IT Optimization, Smarter Assets & Facilities, Mobile Enterprises and Security Intelligence. The Pulse is a unique opportunity to exchange best practices with 8000 attendants coming. There will be three full days of insightful key-notes. Of course, OXplus is attending.

We are also attending the Maximo Rail Industry Summit, at the MGM Grand Conference Center. This event is held prior to the Pulse on the 2^nd of March in Las Vegas. As the name states this event specifically focuses on the Rail Industry and Maximo.

At 9.00 to 10.00 AM, Jos Dittmar (NedTrain) and Richard van Dongen (OXplus) will do a case presentation on: The Challenge of Serialized Assets in the Railroad World.  We will talk about very exciting new developments on Configuration Management within Maximo, increased regulations and how NedTrain is dealing with these requirements.

If you are curious on the topics to be addressed, don’t hesitate to contact us for an appointment. We would like to thank Jos Dittmar and NedTrain for their efforts.

Again Advanced Business Partner 2013

OXplus has again sufficient IBM credentials to be qualified as Advanced level business partner.

For our customers this means that they can be reassured OXplus has great knowledge of IBM Enterprise Asset Management products. What IBM says about advanced business partners:

“Advanced level Business Partners have demonstrated a high level of skills and market success. They are committed to maintaining a prosperous business relationship with IBM.”

Article OXplus in Regio Business

In today’s publication of Regio Business readers can find a profile article on OXplus! The topic of this publication is Facility Management and in the article you will read an introduction to our company. The article will give you a short impression of our vision and values.

Since most of our clients are international, and from our site statistics we know our website visitors are as well. We have translated the article for you to English. Please click here if you want to go directly to the article. You can also find it under company > leaflets, where you will be able to read other material such as reference cases.

TransQ qualification succeeded

OXplus is now qualified in the TransQ – Nordic Transport Utility Qualification System and Vendor Database! We are very happy to receive this qualification and are sure it will open doors to even more opportunities in the Scandinavian Rolling Stock market for OXplus.

About TransQ

“TransQ - Nordic Transport Utility Qualification System and Vendor Database - is a unique collaboration between transport utilities in the Nordic countries. The participating utilities use the system to provide information and to select suppliers when buying goods, services and works. Those buyers not subject to the EC procurement directives also use the system as a joint vendor database. 

For many years TransQ (Achilles) has been working with over 100 privatised and state-operated organisations from the transport industry – such as mainline rail infrastructure companies, mainline rail passenger and freight operators, underground metro & light rail companies and bus.”

Knowledge transfer: First visit to China

Managing Director Richard van Dongen just returned from a knowledge transfer week in China. This first workshop of 5 days (with 2 other workshops still to be scheduled in Nov and Dec ) was setup to advise on a Proof of Concept(POC) regarding a MRO Business Model. This POC should provide insight information to the Customer, who is a large Chinese Rolling Stock Manufacturer, what the impact is of extending their current Business Model with a ‘Service Provider’(MRO) Business Model . Within this Service Provider Business Model the following topics were addressed:

• Customer Contracts, SLA’s, Product / Service Catalogs and price agreements
• Configuration Management and Preventative Maintenance Concepts
• Maintenance Engineering, HUMS and RAMS
• Service Desk & Fleet Management
• Planning & Scheduling, Work Management and Contracting
• Purchasing & Logistics
• Billing / Invoicing and Financial administration

The extension of Manufacturing with Service provider capabilities is not a new phenomenon  in the market, as companies like Siemens, Bombardier, Rolls Royce and GE are already executing this model for years. An important driver of this extended business model is the request from the customer to maintain the trains throughout its life-cycle. The biggest advantage for the manufacturer is getting control of the whole lifecycle of their products and build a long term relationship with the customer.

Providing expertise in Norway

A Rail & Rolling stock company from Norway has recently requested the expertise of our OXplus consultants. Ofcourse we were happy to assist our Nordic upper neighbours. The cooperation has been smooth and pleasant, for which we would like to say: thank you!

The Scandinavian countries have interesting challenges in the field of Rail & Rolling stock. Especially in winter time transport services have to be delivered under more extreme weather conditions. This ofcourse has a significant impact on how to manage maintenance. OXplus sees more potential and is now in the registration process at the TransQ supplier qualification system for the Scandinavian Region. This will make it easier for Scandinavian companies to work together with OXplus!

Reference case: Rollout of 150 iPads at European Rolling Stock client

The digitalization trend and the multiple mobile devices of today enable Asset Intensive Organizations to reduce paperwork and use mobile devices for creating and requesting real-time information on a single device at any location. A great example are the tablet mobile devices that have gained massive popularity in the past two years. Unfortunately implementing this solution in your company is not of matter of just handing out tablets. One of our clients was interested in the benefits of using tablet mobile devices by field engineers.

The challenge was to implement 150 iPads in the in the maintenance process of field engineers. Read the case

Our client however needed key advice on how to implement the tablets in their maintenance environment successfully. In the reference case you can read about the implementation process and benefits. This reference case might provide you with valuable information or insight.

Would you like to know more? Feel free tot contact us at any time