• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.183-188
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• 2013

The purpose of maintaining rolling stock is to perform train service without failure during operation. It is not possible to prevent failure, however, by using periodic preventive maintenance methods, because new rolling stock is made from many electric components and requires the application of IT skills. RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety) methods have consequently been applied to new manufactured rolling stock in KORAIL since implementation of the KTX. With this approach it is possible to verify the reliability at the operating stage, and RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) methods for maintenance have been applied to manufactured rolling stock since the beginning of KTX service. A RCRM (Reliability Centered Rolling-stocks Maintenance) system suitable for the characteristics of rolling stock and operational factors is introduced in this paper.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.198-205
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• 2009

It is known that the operation and maintenance cost is generally higher than the acquisition cost of rolling stocks. It is very important for reducing the operation and maintenance cost to acquire the rolling stocks which are well designed with regard to the operation and maintenance cost. Therefore life cycle cost including the operation and maintenance cost is needed to be considered from the acquisition phase. This article presents a procedure and a model for life cycle cost which are applicable to the acquisition of rolling stocks.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.39-47
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• 2004

연강(mile steel)은 철도차량 차체의 주요 재질로 오랫동안 사용되어 왔으며, 다양한 강도 특성과 저렴한 가격, 용이한 작업성등의 이유로 현재까지도 널리 적용되고 있다. 그러나 연강은 부식에 취약하므로 도장작업이 필수적이고, 부식에 대한 여유로 인해 판두께의 감소가 제한적이므로 경량화가 곤란하고, 정기적인 유지보수가 필요한 단점이 있다. 반면에 스테인레스강(stainless steel)판재는 내부식성이 강하므로 무도장이 가능하고, 차체의 내구 수명이 증가하며, 유지보수가 편리하다는 장점이 있다. 또한 내부식성과 고강도 특성으로 차체 판재의 두께 감소가 가능하므로 경량화에 유리하고, 차체 표면의 다양한 표면처리가 가능하므로 외관의 미려함을 높일 수 있다. 스테인레스강는 연강에 비해 상대적으로 고가의 재질이지만 유지보수 측면과 경량화에 따른 운행비용 측면에서 볼 때 철도차량 차체의 재질로서 유용성을 가지고 있어 활발히 적용되고 있다. 국내에서는 1990년대초 과천선 전동차를 시작으로 스테인레스강 철도차량이 본격적으로 개발되어 상용화되었고, 새마을호를 비롯한객차에도 스테인레스강 차체를 적용하고 있다. 국내의 스테인레스강 철도차량 제작 기술은 이제 상당한 수준에 올라와 있으며 차량의 해외 수출은 물론 기술 이전도 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 강좌에서는 스테인레스강 철도차량 차체의 특성과 함께 설계 방법을 정리하여 봄으로써, 향후 스테인레스강 철도차량 차체의 개선 및 발전을 위한 기초로 삼고자 한다.(중략)

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.88-94
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• 2009

Life cycle costing is one of the most effective approaches for the cost analysis of long-life products such as the railroad vehicle. Life cycle costing includes the cost of concept design, development, manufacture, operation, maintenance and disposal. Especially, life cycle costing in the railroad industry has been focused on the maintenance cost. In this paper, the standard, guide and maintenance information of railroad vehicle were investigated, and the unique corrective and preventive maintenance templates of railroad vehicle were proposed. Maintenance cost of an auxiliary power supply system of EMU was predicted by using the proposed templates. The results show that the preventive maintenance, PM, cost is much higher compare to corrective maintenance, CM, cost because of daily and monthly maintenance tasks which require lots of labor work. It is expected that these templates can help railroad operators make maintenance strategies with consideration of the cost parameter.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.48-57
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• 2005

A lot of manufacturing knowledge and method have applied to increase manufacturing efficiency in industry field. DES(Discrete Event Simulation) is one of solution to deal with manufacturing problems in factory. Beginning of research, old maintenance system of KNR ( Korea National Railroad) and its technical problems are basically investigated. KNR has maintained railway vehicle with their own solution based on experience. Very advanced railway vehicles such as KTX (Korea Train Express) and TTX(Tilting Train Express) will be difficult to maintain with their old maintenance method. In order to apply knowledge of DES, maintenance field of railway must be considered. Imaginary maintenance machine are selected to variable of DES. Maintenance capability of each machine will be evaluated base on imaginary data from imaginary machine. The machine could be very expensive as well as difficult to replace. Target of research is minimization of number of machine in railway workshop. So basic knowledge of discrete event simulation is introduced. Then five essential stages of discrete event simulation are provided. Each maintenance case defined as event. Each event is discrete and simulated base on different case such as one maintenance line with one machine and one maintenance line with two machines in railway workshop. simple maintenance method, discrete event simulation, will be come out very powerful in complicate maintenance system and will be helpful to reduce maintenance cost as well as maintenance labor.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.257-263
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• 2010

Operation and maintenance cost of a rolling stock is generally higher than its acquisition cost. Therefore, it is necessary for reducing life cycle cost (LCC) to make rolling stocks easy and low costly for operation and maintenance. In addition, their operation and maintenance support systems should be effective and efficient. To accomplish this, operator should specify LCC requirements in the early stage of acquisition and make a contractor to provide the rolling stocks of low LCC. This article presents a procedure and a verifiable LCC model available in the general acquisition process where an operator specify requirements and a contractor provide the rolling stock meeting the requirements.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.390-397
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• 2008

Quantitative RAM (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability) is the one of the important indicator that shows the quality of rolling stock. It is usually required in the domestic and abroad purchase specification of rolling stock. And achieving and demonstrating the quantitative RAM goals is also required. In this study, the method to set up these goals will be proposed in the aspects of service and logistic reliability, operational, achievement or inherent availability and maintainability. And we apply this proposed method to the real operation data.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.17-23
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• 2015

Electrical door system is one of the most essential items for the successful commercial operation of the railway vehicles. Nowadays, reliability values of electrical door system have a tendency to be included in technical requirements for design and manufacturing of rolling stocks. Manufacturer shall meet the reliability target values of electrical door system which is proposed by railway operator in procurement contract book. Railway operator shall approve the supplier's the reliability target values based on maintenance operation data. Railway operators are in the transition stage from the framework of maintenance interval based on time to the framework of maintenance interval based on distance. In this study, failure rates of the electrical door system currently used in railway vehicles are collected from maintenance field data. Failure rates are analyzed by using Minitab. Several kinds of plan for improving reliability are also suggested. It is necessary to keep studying on reliability prediction methodology, applying it in the field and implementing on improvement of reliability through feedback as well. Further, it will be useful for determining new maintenance policies or changing maintenance intervals for existing railway vehicles.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.163-168
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• 2013

The maintenance of an urban transit vehicle accounts for 60-70% of total costs over its entire life cycle, so it is critical to reduce maintenance costs and extend the life times of urban transit EMUs (electric multiple units) through research. For these researches, the reliability and availability data management system was constructed through the case study of several industries in the domestic and international in the field of reliability centered maintenance system. And we created a system to manage reliability and availability data for use in urban-EMU maintenance. In this work, we identified the major functions needed to successfully develop the system. Here we report the successful development of a reliability and availability data management system for maintenance of urban transit vehicles.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.240-247
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• 2008

Recently, railway corporations have built maintenance information systems and collected failure and maintenance data. For example Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation (SMRT) built the Electric Motor Unit-Information System (EMU-IS) which is the first maintenance information system in Korea. It has been operated from August, 2000. This paper deals with a case study on determining maintenance interval through reliability analysis using EMU-IS fault data. Door system is considered for the case study in which reliability is evaluated for operating time and distance and the overhaul interval is determined.