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- Aldenlöv, Jens
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Exploring Public Procurement of Swedish Railway Infrastructure Maintenance
- 2019
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 2002, Sweden started to outsource its railway infrastructure maintenance. Through gradual exposure (i.e. outsourcing one contract area at a time), the Swedish Transport Administration has developed its competence of being a client towards its contractors. The last contract was outsourced in 2014. In the last decade, the development of governance techniques and maintenance cost has not matched the increase in traffic. Due to an increased awareness in environmentally friendlier transportation, traffic is only expected to increase further in the coming years. Governance techniques and maintenance cost ultimately depends on the client-contractor relationship through public procurement. Hence, there is a need to understand public procurement of railway infrastructure maintenance. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the knowledge of public procurement of railway infrastructure maintenance. Three separate studies were conducted. Study 1 was a literature review to explore and determine the state-of-the-art for the field of public procurement of railway maintenance. Study 2 was a linear regression analysis to examine the relationship between contract design and the output of maintenance in Sweden. Study 3 was an interview study in Sweden that explored what factors that supports or hinders collaboration in railway maintenance.The main results of these studies are that asset knowledge is important for both the client and the contractor. Through reliable asset knowledge, incentives and contracts can be designed to support governance and collaboration. Today, railway infrastructure maintenance is dominated by informal relationships that lack the support of formal partnering activities. When an informal relationship is supported by a formal structure it provides a basis for innovation. This formal structure should be centralized around gaining and sharing asset knowledge. By establishing such a system to increase the asset knowledge and supporting collaboration, public organizations of maintenance can provide a basis for the improvement of maintenance.
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- Aldenlöv, Jens, et al.
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Public procurement of railway infrastructuremaintenance : a literature review
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organization. - Lyngby : Polyteknisk Boghandel og Forlag. - 9788750211259 ; , s. 10-21
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The maintenance of railway infrastructure has in several instances been changed from government-based to being based on public procurement, with varying degrees of flexibility for the contractor to design their maintenance work. The purpose of-giving contractors a larger freedom of choice of how to perform maintenance is to stimulate them to innovate and develop their maintenance processes. Since the contracts differ in between and there are changes in government policies over time that affects both existing and new contracts, a comparison between different contracts becomes challenging. A literature review has been conducted to understand the change in procurement strategy and how to encourage contractors to innovate. The research questions include: What procurement strategies are there? How is maintenance evaluated? How does procurement affect the innovation opportunities for entrepreneurs?The literature review focuses on railway maintenance and contract design between client and contractor. In total, 17 articles matched the search criteria and were selected for the review. To have successful maintenance service, five articles suggested partnering as a strategy with common goals in combination with good communication during the entirety of the contract. When selecting incentive plan, four articles mentions that a focus on performance-based incentives in combination with riskmanagement is better rather than actual payment schemes. The reason being that payment is often themain cause of conflicts between client and contractor. The scientific literature suggests that improvement in incentives improves quality of maintenance, decreases delays and technical failures. The conclusion from the literature review is that partnering in railway maintenance is considered successful. With accurate knowledge about railway assets the incentive plan becomes accurate which reduces costs.The literature review is a part of a research project with an overall goal to develop a model to guide the selection of appropriate type of procurement strategy, contract and control of maintenance for a moresustainable railway system.
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- Bergquist, Bjarne, et al.
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A Bayesian analysis of unreplicated two-level factorials using effects sparsity, hierarchy, and heredity
- 2011
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Ingår i: Quality Engineering. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0898-2112 .- 1532-4222. ; 23:2, s. 152-166
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article proposes a Bayesian procedure to calculate posterior probabilities of active effects for unreplicated two-level factorials. The results from a literature survey are used to specify individual prior probabilities for the activity of effects and the posterior probabilities are then calculated in a three-step procedure where the principles of effects sparsity, hierarchy, and heredity are successively considered. We illustrate our approach by reanalyzing experiments found in the literature.
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- Bergquist, Bjarne, et al.
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Alive and kicking–but will Quality Management be around tomorrow? : A Swedish academia perspective
- 2012
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: There is a lack of a recognized conception of quality management (QM) comprises of, as well as a clear roadmap of where QM is heading. The purpose of this article is to investigate how QM is perceived today by scholars at three Swedish universities, but also how and into what QM is expected to develop into in twenty years.Methodology: Data have been collected through three structured workshops using affinity diagrams with scholars teaching and performing research in the QM field affiliated with three different Swedish universities.Findings: The results indicate that current QM is perceived similarly among the universities today, although the taxonomy differs slightly. QM is described as a fairly wide discipline consisting of a set of core of principles that in turn guide which methods and tools that currently by many are perceived as the core of the discipline. The outlook for the future differs more where three possible development directions for QM are seen: [1] searching for a “discipline X” where QM can contribute while keeping its toolbox, [2] focus on a core based on the traditional quality technology toolbox with methods and tools, and [3] a risk that QM, as it is today, may seize to exist and be diffused into other disciplines. Originality/value: This article contributes with a viewpoint on QM today and its future development from the academicians’ perspective.
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- Bergquist, Bjarne, et al.
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Alive and kicking–but will Quality Management be around tomorrow? A Swedish academia perspective
- 2012
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Ingår i: Quality Innovation Prosperity. - : Technical University of Kosice, Faculty of Materials, Metallurgy and Recycling. - 1335-1745 .- 1338-984X. ; 16:2, s. 1-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this article is to describe how Quality Management (QM) is perceived today by scholars at three Swedish universities, and into what QM is expected to develop into in twenty years. Data were collected through structured workshops using affinity diagrams with scholars teaching and performing research in the QM field. The results show that QM currently is perceived as consisting of a set of core of principles, methods and tools. The future outlook includes three possible development directions for QM are seen: [1] searching for a “discipline X” where QM can contribute while keeping its toolbox, [2] focus on a core based on the traditional quality technology toolbox with methods and tools, and [3] a risk that QM, as it is today, may seize to exist and be diffused into other disciplines.
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- Bergquist, Bjarne
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Analysis of an unreplicated 2^2 factorial experiment performed in a continuous process
- 2015
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Ingår i: Total Quality Management and Business Excellence. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1478-3363 .- 1478-3371. ; 26:9-10, s. 1083-1094
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a tentative analysis method for unreplicated factorial designs where regular statistical experimental analysis cannot be used. The methodology is demonstrated through the analysis of an unreplicated two-level, two-factor factorial experiment performed in a continuous production process where the process was not in statistical control and where changes in the experimental design made conventional experimental analysis impossible. The first step of the analyses included screening of the sampled data. Principal component analysis and factor analysis were then used to create an overview of how the various responses and experimental factors were related. Carbon monoxide efficiency was selected as the most important parameter to be analysed further. Elastic net regression was used as a screening tool to remove non-significant factors, interaction, and covariates. Finally, the carbon monoxide efficiency variation was modelled using an intervention analysis. Two experimental factors were found to actively influence the response. The experiment that from other perspectives can be considered to be unanalysable, did thus reveal causal effects. The results imply that for processes where the process dynamics may be monitored, observations of the process dynamics may reduce the needs for repeated experimental runs, thus reducing the experimental costs.
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- Bergquist, Bjarne, et al.
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Cleaning of Railway Track Measurement Data forBetter Maintenance Decisions
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 5<sup>th</sup> International Workshop and Congress on eMaintenance. - : Luleå University of Technology. ; , s. 9-15
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Data of sufficient quality, quantity and validity constitute a sometimes overlooked basis for eMaintenance. Missing data, heterogeneous data types, calibration problems, or non-standard distributions are common issues of operation and maintenance data. Railway track geometry data used for maintenance planning exhibit all the above issues. They also have unique features stemming from their collection by measurement cars running along the railway network. As the track is a linear asset, measured geometry data need to be precisely located to be useful. However, since the sensors on the measurement car are moving along the track, the observations’ geographical sampling positions come with uncertainty. Another issue is that different seasons and othertime restrictions (e.g. related to the timetable) prohibit regular sampling. Hence, prognostics related to remaining useful life (RUL) are challenging since most forecasting methods require a fixed sampling frequency.This paper discusses methods for data cleaning, data condensation and data extraction from large datasets collected by measurement cars. We discuss missing data replacement, dealing with autocorrelation or cross-correlation, and consequences of not fulfilling methodological pre-conditions such as estimating probabilities of failures using data that do not follow the assumed distributions or data that are dependent. We also discuss outlier detection, dealing with data coming from multiple distributions, of unknown calibrations and other issues seen in railway track geometry data. We also discuss the consequences of not addressing or mishandling quality issues of such data.
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- Bergquist, Bjarne, et al.
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Control Charts supporting Condition-Based Maintenance of Linear Railway Infrastructure Assets
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Journal of COMADEM. - 1363-7681. ; 18:2, s. 7-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a control chart approach for monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics to support condition-based maintenance (CBM) using condition data of linear railway infrastructure assets. The condition data were obtained from regular inspections done by a railway track measurement wagon. The condition data were statistically analysed by using two different control charts to evaluate the possibility for earlier detection of derailment hazardous faults using both temporal and spatial information.The study indicates that that the proposed control chart approach can be used for condition assessment of track and thereby provides valuable decision support for CBM. The control chart for condition information in the temporal domain supports diagnostics, while the control chart for condition information in the spatiotemporal domain also supports prognostics. The two proposed control charts give earlier fault warnings compared to the traditional approach. This facilitates decisions regarding CBM actions with an extended planning horizon and gives the possibility to increase the operational availability of track.
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