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DELHI (Metro Rail News): Freight Wagon operations modernised by Indian Railways as they plan to adopt artificial intelligence based defect detection, proactive maintenance and in time sensors, to enhance reliability and safety.
“This plan emphasises on improving wagon reliability, maintenance quality and freight speeds” The official said, he also mentioned that a field test of an AI based system to examine wagon defects across selected areas will commence shortly. The AI system would examine the pictures and look for any kinds of damaged, missing or hanging components on moving wagons.
Separate portal devoted to freight grievance
A new portal ‘Madad’ which is specially dedicated to grievances and complaints related to freight, electronic brake power certificates, refrigerated-container wagons, and a universal wagon for steel products are also being planned. The portal is going to be the medium through which wagon users and loading or unloading parties express their complaints would go into the maintenance system and timely reforms will take place.
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This way it will be ensured that concerns and remarks of freight customers are addressed on time. Through all these new additions of reforms, the main goal is to make railways a more economically viable and competitive mode of transport.
Modernization of Indian Railways
Along with addressing these commercial concerns, the railways are also attempting to boost the railway operations through predictive maintenance. They are aiming to find the emerging defects before the possibility of that component failing. Data gathered from sensors and inspections helps railway personnel to identify irregularities in temperature, impact, load and wear patterns.
Similarly, on the separate Freight Corridors a machine-vision system has been used, They use line scan and area scan cameras to record undercarriage flaws while trains are moving. This system has generated 5,248 confirmed alerts out of 115,654 wagons inspected according to the official reports.
An official said, a map based system also tracks rakes that are due for routine overhaul, this application is known as “The Rake Lens” and it provides a single-screen view of rakes, dues, alerts and other unusual abnormalities to the examiners.
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