Multiple Train Operating Solutions for Multiple Service Stakeholders.
Passenger train operators face the challenge of delivering safe and reliable train services, enhancing customer experience, growing revenues and managing costs.
Key to maximising train availability and utilisation is the effective and efficient management of the train fleet and associated maintenance operations.
The challenges faced by train operators include:
- Safe operations to protect everyone in and around the railways
- Ensuring train availability to maximise your capacity potential
- Maximising train utilisation and meeting capacity demands
- Meeting passenger demands for a continually enhanced customer experience
- Meeting regulatory and franchise
requirements Managing costs to maintain profitability - Managing costs to maintain profitability
- Growing revenues and maintaining profitability
New Supply Chain efficiencies for Train Operating Companies
The supply chain has a significant impact on a train operating company’s ability to meet these challenges. It does though present challenges of its own:
- Ensuring parts availability across multiple suppliers and that parts adhere to the required quality, safety, regulatory standards
- Efficient maintenance and depot operations that minimise downtime
- Understanding and managing parts performance and its impact on overall train performance
- Delivering new innovation to bring new efficiencies and an enhanced customer experience
Why you should use Unipart Rail?
We have numerous successful long term relationships with train operating companies. Close, collaborative partnerships with TOCs who rely on Unipart Rail to keep their trains running. We have also developed an intimate understanding of the rail industry, train operators, rolling stock, the products and technology they use and the supporting supply chain.
- Products and parts backed by our safety and quality assurance processes, technical support and warranty
- Lean operations and a more efficient supply chain for maintenance operations - consolidated supply and just in time parts availability, when and where they are needed, at the point of use
- Innovation in technology and processes that improves operational and business performance. Innovative solutions to help meet challenges around cost, capacity, customers and carbon
- Asset Management Solutions including, repair and overhaul services, obsolescence management and CBM technology to reduce maintenance costs and improve train availability
Unipart Rail’s service is underpinned by significant investment in processes, systems and a team specialising in new product development, customer service, supplier management and engineering. Our dedicated engineering team ensures supplied products are safe and meet both standards and legislative requirements.
Continual innovation and investment in people and systems sees us lead in the development of the Condition Based Supply Chain to deliver new train operator and maintenance operations efficiencies.
Case Studies...
Freightliner
SmartServe Solution
they were opening a new depot and were
looking for an innovative solution that would support their maintenance activities.
Unipart Rail’s SmartServe solution provides
a flexible and scalable solution that can be
fine-tuned to customer requirements.
As part of the biggest tram depot redevelopment
in Melbourne’s history, Unipart Rail and
Unipart Expert Practices worked together
to provide full support during the transformation
of the site.
Yarra Trams
Transformation
and effectiveness of South West Train’s stores, enabling them to improve their service to production and reducing visits to the stores
by 54%.
South West Trains
Lean Depot Stores
