Predictive maintenance

    Controlling breakdowns using data and intelligent assistance: predictive maintenance enhances train reliability and the fluidity of journeys.
    Updated on 22 January 20265-minute read

    Anticipating faults before they disrupt traffic: predictive maintenance is an essential lever for ensuring that trains run smoothly every day. By reducing incidents and interruptions, it helps to provide a more reliable service for millions of passengers.


    Thanks to new technologies, and more specifically intelligent assistance, remote diagnostics and real-time data analysis, trains report their condition continuously. This means that engineering teams, supported by digital and data experts, can intervene at the right time, with precision.

    The result: safer, better-maintained, more available and longer-lasting trains for the mobility of tomorrow.

    Data at the heart of performance

    Data has become a strategic lever for the Rolling Stock Division.

    Better collected, better shared and better exploited, it makes it possible to anticipate, optimise maintenance, improve the performance of rolling stock and make operations safer.

    There are many tools available:

    • Intelligent assistance enables real-time analysis of railway data to optimise maintenance and operations.
    • Automatic scanners combined with additive manufacturing allow parts to be digitised and reproduced rapidly.
    • Algorithms help to analyse failures based on mechanical behaviour.
    • Data has become a genuine maintenance tool for a more agile and responsive industry.
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    million passengers a day

    15 000

    trains running per day

    5

    computer networks by train

    140

    software by train

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