Railway inspection in Africa

Background

The client is an African railway company. Traditional railway track inspection requires manual recording of information at the railway site and then entering it on a computer in the office, which is inefficient and prone to errors. The entire inspection process takes a long time from the time the inspector accepts the inspection task to the time the final report is given. Real-time communication is not possible between inspectors, maintenance personnel and managers. Managers cannot monitor the inspection situation in real time and cannot learn about maintenance plans.

Solution

We deployed V8 handheld terminals with two-dimensional barcode scanning and ultra-high frequency RFID functions for customers to help realize intelligent track inspection. Inspectors and maintenance personnel can receive new task assignments and specific requirements through the V8 handheld terminal. Inspectors can enter inspection results, and maintenance personnel can record maintenance processes and situations in a timely manner. Foremen and quality inspection teams can carry portable devices for re-inspection and record the results on the V8 handheld terminal. Information can be shared in the railway management system, which can plan the best inspection and maintenance routes for staff and automatically generate maintenance records.

Effect

1. Standardize and simplify the inspection and maintenance workflow.

2. On-site staff can use lightweight equipment to record information in real time.

3. All data and information captured by inspectors, maintenance personnel and administrators can be synchronized to the back-end database, and these data can be shared among them. In this way, they can communicate with each other better to keep abreast of the latest status of each fault found.

4. The overall management level of this railway company has been improved.