Alex Burrows Director of BCRRE Rail Alliance provides a quick overview on today’s Destination Decarbonisation: Innovation Day, what it involved and covers some of the questions that came in. Today was the third and final day of our Destination Decarbonisation ONference delivered by BCRRE and the Rail Alliance. Today we were also joined by our … Continue reading “Destination Decarbonisation Day 3: Innovation”
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Destination Decarbonisation Day 2: Research and Technology
Following yesterday’s first session of our 3-day Destination Decarbonisation event, which covered the big-picture of policy, funding, demand for decarbonisation technologies, today’s session was all about research and the BCRRE Centre of Excellence in Rail Decarbonisation. It was my pleasure to introduce this Centre of Excellence and its six themes encompassing energy, efficiency, infrastructure and … Continue reading “Destination Decarbonisation Day 2: Research and Technology”
Destination Decarbonisation Day 1: Policy
Alex Burrows, Director of Rail Alliance BCRRE provides a quick snapshot of today’s Destination Decarbonisation: Policy Day and answers a few more questions asked by the audience. We have just delivered the first session of our second edition of the BCRRE Rail Alliance Destination Decarbonisation event that focused on policy. This was a fascinating session … Continue reading “Destination Decarbonisation Day 1: Policy”
Blockchain Technology for the Rail Industry
Joe Preece, a PhD Researcher at the University of Birmingham, describes how blockchain could make rail supply chains more transparent, thereby enhancing trust in suppliers, and doing this in a cost-effective way. What is a supply chain? A supply chain is the process through which materials and components travel, from production through to sale. It … Continue reading “Blockchain Technology for the Rail Industry”
BCRRE and Rail Alliance promote RSG Coronavirus Taskforce Industry Survey
Alex Burrows Director of BCRRE, the Rail Alliance and representative of the RSG and UKKRIN talks about the importance of the recently launched survey and how your input is most vaulable. The Rail Supply Group (RSG) has launched a survey seeking the views of businesses across the rail supply industry on the impact of COVID-19 … Continue reading “BCRRE and Rail Alliance promote RSG Coronavirus Taskforce Industry Survey”
A Systems-approach to asset management
Reza Zolfaghari, Senior Technical Officer with the Digi-Rail project and an expert in systems engineering, considers asset management processes and systems. The requirement of modern railway asset management is moving from reactive maintenance, towards smart, proactive and condition-based maintenance which uses data obtained directly from the assets themselves. There is no doubt that technological innovation is … Continue reading “A Systems-approach to asset management”
Supply Chain: When change is needed, be radical
Dr Marcelo Blumenfeld, Industrial Fellow in Introducing Innovation, talks about the disruption to the Rail Supply Chain, lack of resilience in our systems and using this pandemic as a wake up call. Needless to say the global impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are unprecedented – all the hashtags, webinars, and blog posts have told us … Continue reading “Supply Chain: When change is needed, be radical”
Rail innovation: How are UKRRIN and its members helping to change the perception?
Nailah Fraser-Haynes, Senior Partnership Manager at RSSB, talks to us about UKRRIN and the importance of academia and industry coming together to move forward. Every transport mode faces challenges, but there is one commonality… the desire to make things better, to innovate. The confidence and ability to do so is often a ‘put your money … Continue reading “Rail innovation: How are UKRRIN and its members helping to change the perception?”
Innovation and the UK rail industry
Alex Burrows, Director of BCRRE, comments about the appetite for innovation in the rail industry and the challenge faced in converting ideas into realisation. Here at BCRRE, we were extremely interested to see the findings of the RIA Innovation Survey published yesterday. To start with, all respondents (of which there were around 300) said that … Continue reading “Innovation and the UK rail industry”
Innovation as part of business recovery
Rachel Eade MBE, FRSA, Supply Chain Lead for BCRRE and Senior Technical Officer with the Digi-Rail project, finishes off her week sharing her thoughts on some of the effects of the Covid-19 lockdown on the SME community. Innovation as part of business recovery Developing new products and processes is the lifeblood of many businesses: adapt, … Continue reading “Innovation as part of business recovery”