On October 22, at Hotel Mielparque Osaka, RTRI held Digital Maintenance Technical Seminar focusing on labor-saving and remote operation in railway facilities maintenance.
RTRI has been addressing research into “labor saving by digital maintenance” in order to attain more labor-efficient railway facilities maintenance by fully using digital technologies. Currently, we are in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic and, in terms of minimizing the infections, remote operation of facilities maintenance is increasingly important.
This seminar was held with sufficient measures taken to prevent the coronavirus infections. 94 participants from 25 companies, mostly railway operators, joined the seminar. Its keynote lectures were live-streamed and 64 viewers from 36 companies watched them.
During the seminar, three keynote speeches in the fields of structures, track and earthquake engineering and eight presentations of our research results were made. Two of the presentations were delivered in “hybrid” style combining live streaming from the test fields at RTRI and presentations at the seminar venue, and six were remotely done by researchers who explained from RTRI about the panels, monitor screens, exhibited materials and models at the seminar venue.
