As owner, keeper and Entity in Charge of Maintenance (ECM), it is our duty and responsibility to ensure our fleet is well maintained.
Our maintenance scheduling team is comprised of all disciplines from sales to project managers and engineers, each weighing in and bringing a different angle to an overall, highly sophisticated balancing act that constitutes our railcar maintenance plan. When we establish our maintenance plan, we know which wagons are due for revision and match them to one of our 60+ certified maintenance workshops.
The most common maintenance activities are:
✔ Tank Tests
✔ Wheelset Repairs
✔ Underframe Revisions
✔ Car Painting
✔ Inside Linings Renewal
We execute more than 6,000 planned revisions per year.
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18,000 & 20,000
Our fleet is one of the youngest on the European market, a fact that plays in our favor when it comes to maintenance. Yet, we are committed to continuing to reduce fall-out rates to a minimum, here are some of the steps we are taking:
We are actively screening, auditing and training workshops around Europe to grow our network. Quality assurance remains key during this process and we have an experienced team that is focused on just that.
We keep close track of workshop performance, schedules and expertise and match upcoming revisions accordingly.
Each shop gets a detailed briefing before your railcar arrives. We also support in pre-scheduled cleaning and we pre-order spare parts so everything is ready when your railcar gets to the shop.
We have our own in-house workshops in Ostróda & Plock, Poland that handles 2,000 railcar revisions and 8,000 planned wheelset repairs per year. These facilities provide us with a certain degree of flexibility in scheduling.
We have various projects underway to improve throughput of railcar revisions. It is a bilateral effort to reduce downtime to a minimum.
Our GATX audit team travels to certified shops to keep the high bar we have set for quality assurance. Shops in our network receive continuous training and support from this dedicated GATX team.
We are digitalizing our in-house maintenance with the shop portal. It allows us to reduce paper documentation flow as well as electronically exchange technical & operational data with our workshops.
If we can’t find any other way, this is our last resort to provide our customers with an equivalent railcar.
A lot of our expertise on quality maintenance is bolstered by the experiences we garner at our wholly-owned shop in Ostróda and Plock.
Ostróda employs 250 blue-collars, 110 office employees and undertakes 2,000 railcar revisions and 8,000 planned wheelset repairs per year. Everything we learn at Ostróda, we carry to our maintenance shop network.
Our shop is an integral part of our GATX locations. The work on-site includes:
✔Assembly of new railcars
✔Railcar Painting
✔Revision of wheelsets
✔ Refurbishment of railcar components
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