Change Control Process Support Civil Engineering
A Railway rolling stock won the biggest order in their company’s history. The Company asked JBA to support their change control process to give effective and robust controls to implement change on a rapidly growing fleet of trains. Using experience gained with in worldwide projects a culture change was introduced.
Before:
The Rail rolling stock Building Company had a contract to deliver 78 x 8 car double decked commuter passenger trains. The company has a long history of manufacture but only in locomotives and small -batches of 5-9 vehicles. The trains were being introduced with a high level of outstanding changes and as the introduction process continued more issues were raised. The change systems in place were geared around small batch real time manufacture and change, planning and deployment were not targeted just released. JBA provided step changes that took the existing systems and remoulded them to an effective system that introduce planned and monitored change in a way that was most beneficial for the increasing fleet size and the goal to keep reliability and availability high
Results:
- Culture change focussed on the need for change.
- Existing planning system updated to reflect new requirements.
- Structure of reviewing and releasing modifications changed for effective throughput.
- Increase focus on key changes.
- Teams structured to give a joined up process.
- Detailed planning put in place.
- KPI`s generated to track progress.
