ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 1 ® © Transportation Technology Center, Inc., a subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads, 2009 Rail Vehicle Defect Detection and Performance Monitoring: Current and Pending Technologies Association of Car Accounting and Car Service Officers Pueblo, COMay 15, 2009 RB Wiley, Principal Investigator

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 2 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 Agenda u Predictive/Preventive Maintenance Concept u ATSI Industry Systems u Update on the Current technology: Why does it matter?? u What’s Next…and Beyond: WPMS, Laser Technologies, Integration, Imaging

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 3 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 Predictive/Preventive Maintenance Concept u So What? u ‘to facilitate the proper flow of equipment ‘

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 4 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 Window of Opportunity Low Medium High

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 5 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 Change the rail vehicle maintenance paradigm… From: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” To: Predictive / Preventative Maintenance Objective: HOW???

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 6 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 Trend Analysis for Predictive/Preventive Maintenance MAXVERT (Kips) MAXVERT: AAR Rule 41 Condemnable UCL LCL 2 Mo+ Maintenance Window of Opportunity

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 7 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 ATSI: Industry Systems u InteRRIS® u EHMS Carrier Wayside System AEI Raw Data EquipmentIdentification Carriers Outside of Stress State Condition Via Industry Systems Car Owners Industry Systems Inte RRIS ® Stress State Condition ®  Wayside systems feed InteRRIS  after identifying the car with AEI  InteRRIS  identifies a “Stress-State” Condition  InteRRIS  communicates with Railinc Systems for processing

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 8 © TTCI/AAR, /05/2009

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 9 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 Current Systems Update: Defect Detection & Performance Monitoring

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 10 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 InteRRIS® WILD Statistics: Seasonality

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 11 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 InteRRIS® THD Statistics Update * Salient Systems (SSI) Hunting Index (HINDX) values within specified range at specified repeat count, from SSI Hunting Truck Detectors (HTD) loaded into InteRRIS®.

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 12 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 Loaded Hunting - Symptoms u Failed adaptor pads u Failure is associated with: l Failure of CCSB elements u Cause??

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 13 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 Multiple Cup Spalls Acoustic Bearing Detector (ABD)

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 14 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 OOPS!

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 15 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 Upcoming ATSI Support: Example Defect Detection & Performance Monitoring Systems

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 16 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 Upcoming ATSI Support: Overload/Imbalanced Load Detector (OILD) u Fore – Aft Imbalance

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 17 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 Upcoming ATSI Support: Wheel Profile Measurement System (WPMS) u Wheel Profiles: Vision-based

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 18 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 Upcoming ATSI Support: Wheel Profile Measurement System (WPMS) u Wheel Profiles: Laser-based

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 19 © TTCI/AAR, & Beyond Vision Systems and then: TDTI u Monitor/Detect other Vehicle Components u Leverage all systems for Overall Car Health Status

® ACACSO 2009 TTCI - 20 © TTCI/AAR, 2009 Thank you for your time and interest!! Questions ?