Lightscene 2015: What does the Rail Sector need from the Lighting Industry?

Robert Hopkin

Rail Alliance

21 May 2015

Answer …

•Value!

Better Answer …

• Innovative, ingenious solutions to existing problems and future challenges

• Sustainability credentials – from both technical and environmental perspectives

• Rail sector is a ‘show me’ industry … are the glossy brochures days’ numbered?

• Whole Life Cost models are at last being entertained by the OEMs & top tiers

• Directors of Supplier Sourcing becoming popular appointments (in our diaries!)

• Practical approach to sharing the burden of risk becoming more popular

• Rail Delivery Group is starting to make its presence felt ...

Light after Dark – Feb 2015

40 companies, 3 CPD lectures, 70 attendees

Knowledge

• What do you know about the Rail sector

• Railways and Other Guided Transport Systems Regulations (ROGS) 2006

• European Railway Safety Directive (2004/49/EC)

• Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI) … eg PRM-compliancy is a hot topic

• “Who does what” (Network Rail Vs Train Operating Companies)

• Major Projects (HS2, Crossrail, Thameslink, IEP, Crossrail2, MML Electrification)

• How the railway works … for you!

Show me the money 1

Show me the money 2

NR-operated Stations

• London Cannon Street; London Charing Cross; London Euston; London Fenchurch Street; London King's Cross; London Liverpool Street; London Bridge; London Paddington; London St. Pancras (domestic); London Victoria; London Waterloo; Birmingham New Street; Edinburgh Waverley; Glasgow Central (High Level); Leeds; Liverpool Lime Street; and Manchester Piccadilly

TOC-operated Stations

•Approx 2483 remaining stations!

Profile

• What does the Rail Sector know about you?

• FutureRailway Test Voucher Scheme click

• Rail Industry Supplier Qualification Scheme (RISQS) click

• Rail Industry Supplier Approval Scheme (RISAS) click

• CompeteFor used by London Olympics 2012, Crossrail and HS2 click

• Exhibitions (Railtex, Infrarail, Innotrans, Trako, EurasiaRail, AusRail et al)

• Media (mainstream, specialist, social … the good, the bad and the ugly!)

Rail Supply Group

• Launched by BIS and DfT on 21 Jan 2015 – www.railsupplygroup.org

• Vision Statement – www.railsupplygroup.org/fast-track-for-growth/

• Five Pillars:

Mentoring

• Rail Supply Group (RSG) SME Strand incudes inter alia:

• RSG Mentoring Programme

• RSG ‘Open Doors’ Programme

• enquiries@railmentor.com to sign up for the RSG Mentoring Programme

• Rail Alliance – B2B Networking organisation for the Rail Supply Chain & more …

• Railway Industry Association – the trade association for the Rail Sector – www.riagb.org.uk

• Derby & Derbyshire Rail Forum – www.derbyrailforum.org

• Rail Freight Group – looks after the Freight Operating Companies (FOCs) – www.rfg.org.uk

Mentoring

• Mentoring programmes provided through the auspices of BIS and DfT

• Assistance with product placement and specialist knowledge

• Development of Business Development Managers as sector professionals

• Creation of virtual supply chain groupings

• Niche (sub-sector) events

• Breakfast Meetings with the good and the great

• How the railway works … for you!

Events, PR & Case Studies

What the Rail Alliance does do:

• A Rail Sector Business to Business (B2B) Organisation providing:

• Networking Events (nationally)

• Seminars and Conferences

• Delivering Mentoring Schemes on behalf of BIS and DfT

• Media & Exhibition Support (including hosting outdoor rail technology shows)

• Testing, Trialling & Demonstration for SMEs and Large Enterprises

• Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) Delivery Partner

• … anything its members want it to be – we’re driven by them!

What the Rail Alliance does not do:

• Act as a Trade Association

• Lobbying

• Politics

• Dinner Dances, Golfing Days, Corporate Tub Thumping

• What others do …

Rail Live

2013

2014

Future Railway Test Voucher Scheme

• http://www.futurerailway.org/innovation/Pages/Testing-Voucher.aspx

Collaboration

• ‘Graveyards are full of indispensable people’ … Charles de Gaulle

• ‘I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums’ … Noel Gallagher

• ‘Politeness is the poison of Collaboration’ … Edwin Land

• ‘Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much’ … Helen Keller

• ‘It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too); those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed’ ... not Charles Darwin

BS11000

• World’s first national standard for Collaborative Business Relationships

• Set to become an ISO standard Feb 2016 (ish!)

• BS11000 Leadership and Auditing courses provided by the University of Warwick (£1200+VAT)

• Introduction to BS11000 courses are provided by BSI (£595+VAT)

• Rail Alliance provides BS11000 Awareness Training courses at its Long Marston base(£50+VAT)

• Standard is overseen by the Institution for Collaborative Working

• See www.instituteforcollaborativeworking.com

• Network Rail (Infrastructure Projects) has been accredited to the standard

Hands across the water …• The Rail Alliance is a Founder Member of the European Rail Clusters

Initiative ERCI (www.eurailclusters.com) – a ‘super’ cluster of 9 railway business clusters from 7 European countries including: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and United Kingdom.

• Objectives:

• To increase European competitiveness of the railway sector through innovation

• To share experiences and efforts to avoid redundancies and promote efficiency

• To build European projects and bring business opportunities to our members

Interaction with the Knowledge Base

• Rail Research UK Association – www.rruka.org.uk

• Motor Industry Research Association – www.mira.co.uk/our-services/rail

• Transport Research Laboratory – www.trl.co.uk/markets/rail

• Millbrook Proving Ground – www.millbrook.co.uk/Sectors/Rail

• Innovate UK – www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk

• Transport Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) – www.transportktn.org

What is QRTC?

What is QRTC?

• Quinton Rail Technology Centre; home to:

• Viva Rail (D78 Project refurbishment and re-roleing to 3-car DMU sets)

• Chrysalis Rail LLP train refurbishment (currently working on FGW DMU fleet)

• Motorail UK Ltd (prototype engineering, maintenance & off main-line storage of rolling stock)

• Total Tank Solutions (collaboration with Motorail and LCM to deliver tanker fleet management)

• ABC Consortium (training, testing, trialling and demonstration)

• FutureRailway partner for FRTVS

• Birmingham Centre for Rail Research and Education partner for ongoing trials – eg COMORAIL Programme for Remote Condition Monitoring)

Where is QRTC?

• QRTC

• Station Road

• Long Marston

• Stratford on Avon

• Warwickshire

• CV37 8RP

• 01789 720 026

Technology Readiness Levels

(TRLs)

Description

1 Basic principles observed and reported

2 Technology concept and/or application formulated

3 Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept

4 Technology basic validation in a laboratory environment

Technology Readiness Levels 1 - 4

Technology Readiness Levels

(TRLs)

Description

5 Technology basic validation in a relevant environment

6 Technology model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment

7 Technology prototype demonstration in a simulated operational environment

8 Actual technology completed and qualified through test and demonstration

9 Actual technology qualified through successful mission operations

Technology Readiness Levels 5 - 9

Useful RSSB links …

http://www.rssb.co.uk/research-development-and-innovation/futurerailway

http://www.futurerailway.org/innovation/pages/testing-and-trialling-facilities.aspx

http://www.futurerailway.org/research/documents/2014-04-t993-guide-testing-and-trialling-v0.5p.pdf

http://www.futurerailway.org/leadership/lists/testingtrialling/allitems.aspx

http://www.rssb.co.uk/groups-and-committees

Useful TSLG links …

http://www.futurerailway.org/strategy/about/Pages/What-is-the-RTS.aspx

http://www.futurerailway.org/leadership/Pages/default.aspx

http://www.networkrail.co.uk/browse%20documents/strategicbusinessplan/cp5/supporting%20documents/transforming%20network%20rail/technical%20strategy.pdf

Events

• July 9th , Coventry: Rail Interiors Cluster Event (includes Station Interiors) to be held at and hosted by Coventry University Technocentre

• July 14th , York: we will be co-hosting a networking event at National Rail Museum with an update on the HSR college in Doncaster and inputs from TOCs (Abellio) and a ROSCO (Porterbrook Leasing) with regard to ‘Supplying Innovation to the TOCs’ and the ‘Incentivization of Innovation in Franchising’

• August (dates tbc), Sheffield and Mansfield: networking events themed respectively around Rolling Stock Maintenance and “Reconnecting with Rail”

• September 16-17, QRTC Long Marston: RAIL2015 … an outdoor exhibition of the Rail Supply Chain ‘at work’ … 100+ exhibitors have already booked space

Events

• September (tbc), London: Networking event themed on Collaborative Working and BS11000

• October 8th, Riverside Centre Derby: ‘Rail Vehicle Enhancements’ exhibition … Rail Alliance will be holding a breakfast networking event; Rail Alliance members who choose to exhibit are eligible for a £750 reduction off their stand booking fee (www.rve2015.co.uk/)

• November 4th-5th, NEC Birmingham: we will be exhibiting at ‘The Advanced Engineering Show’ in the Advanced Materials Zone … a great show – space virtually sold out – 4 or 5 co-exhibitors are required (see www.advancedengineeringuk.com/)

• December (tbc), Long Marston: ‘Light After Dark’ afternoon seminar & outdoor night exhibition for the rail lighting sector … to deconflict annually with SiB (2016) and Lux Live (18/19 Nov 2015)

• December (tbc), Huddersfield: we will be co-hosting a technologically-based event with the University of Huddersfield

Light After Dark 2015

Light After Dark 2015

Any Questions?

• Thank you for inviting the Rail Alliance to present to your conference – have a safe journey home …

• Robert Hopkin• Executive Director• Rail Alliance• robert.hopkin@railalliance.co.uk• 01789 720 026