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It is amazing how the technology is evolving every year, even month. New technologies are always arising and making our lifes easier. What's really important is the need to be aware of this technologies and to be always thinking if these technologies can be applied to the business. This is really important, a new technology correctly applied to a train, fleet, etc. can be the game changer to win a contract. Most of the customers are not yet aware of the power of cloud computing, IoT, AI's etc. It's our job to take advantage of it and propose solutions they've never dreamt of.
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Digital Asset Manager
Alstom EMEA
Started 02/2020 to PresentFleet Monitoring Manager
Alstom EMEA
From 03/2017 to 02/2020Maintenance Engineer
Alstom EMEA
From 06/2013 to 02/2017Company
What do you like about your job and the company?
When you work in train maintenance you realize that, no matter how good the maintenance you do to the trains is, every revenue service is a challenge! This is even more noticeable in legacy fleets, when the trains are older, you even have less feedback from the diagnostic tools. When we started developing monitoring tools and deploying them in the fleets, we were not blind anymore, we were able to see how the fleet was performing during service, and it was a relief for us, we started working better and more motivated, the customer satisfaction rate was highly increased and we could give a best service. Now, we not only deploy remote diagnostic systems for the fleet, but also create visual solutions for operators, customers (now they can see the train's occupation, coach temperature, speed, power consumed, etc.), apply machine learning algorithms to forecast how some system will perform depending in the environmental variables, etc. The highest motivation for me is knowing that there is still so many technology to implement in trains to improve their reliability and user experience for the customers!
Greatest achievements
When I joined Alstom, I started working as maintenance engineer in a legacy fleet. The trains were amazing and their reliability was top but they were a little bit old and the failure rate was a little bit higher than it used to. After deploying the monitoring system, we decided to create a well defined action plan: - Analyse all the events and failure modes detected by the monitoring devices. - Detect which of them are the ones impacting the fleet reliability, focus on the first 10 of the list. - Analyse which part of the train do these defects impact. - Perform specific action for each of the parts. - Analyse the impact in the fleet. By this new philosophy, we were able to detect which elements of the train were being degraded and impact the fleet reliability, and by overhauling or replacing them, the performance of the fleet was dramatically increased!
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I've found that when I've been scared to stand out my opportunities become limited. When I've taken the leap I've gained wonderful experiences such as awards, black-tie dinners and opportunities to speak at events.
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In my daily activities I encourage my colleagues to build a network in our team. Learning something about people that are in your professional network can help in creating strongest relations and a friendly job environment. You can start with active listening, make sure to spend time and have a chat with your colleagues regarding their issues, their hobbies, their life and about what they love to do. In this way you have chance to work in a team, where the communication is easy and you could be able to better understand people behaviour.
