Component management is a tool that allows you to create and manage components and counters for your assets on the Railnova platform.

To create and manage components (or sub-components) as a Railnova administrator for your company, go to the administration panel on the Railnova platform, then navigate to the "Component management" menu in the "Railfleet" section.

The functionalities accessible outside of the administration panel are described in the following article.

In this article, the following functions are discussed:

Before you can create maintenance counters for your assets, ensure that the asset's component state has been correctly defined.

There are three different component states:

You can check the current component state of your assets in the assets list:

If the component state of the asset is a red cross and you'd like to reset it to initialise the component for counters, first ensure that an inventory exists for your company. Go to Component management -> Inventories to ensure that you have at least one default inventory.

If there's no inventory for your company, click on "Add inventory" green button on the top right of the page, give it a name, add a point of interest if necessary, select "Is default", then save.

If there's at least one inventory, you can move on to the next step below.

Once you've ensured that an inventory is available, go to the Assets menu and look up the desired vehicle. Click on the asset, modify the asset component structure in the dropdown list to "------", and then save.

Please don't click on the red cross next to the asset component structure to remove it! Clicking on the red cross will delete the maintenance plan from the platform, which will affect your preventive maintenance planning of all locomotives that have that maintenance plan.

Change to:

Click the blue "Save" button in the upper right corner of your screen to save your changes.

After saving this change, the status of the component state becomes a question mark (aka undefined).

In this module, you can also define component types, e.g. asset class, bogie, CAT engine, etc.

Go to the Admin menu -> Component management -> Component types to view the component types that have already been created by your company.

If your desired component type is not listed yet, you can create your own one by clicking on "Add component type".

Give a unique name to your component type (e.g. asset class) and choose a subtype from the dropdown menu then click on "Save".

Subtype:

You can also add an unlimited number of documents to the component types by clicking on "Add another Document Of Type". Then, choose the file you would like to attach and tick the box if you'd like to make it visible on the Driver logbook.

Please note that the uploaded documents will only be displayed in the Digital Logbook if the component state is correctly defined and marked with a green checkmark on the asset page.

Once the component type exists, you can create components of that type. In the admin panel, go to the "Component management" section, then click on "Components". You will see a list of all the components that already exist for your company.

You can create your own components and a structural tree of your assets using this module. Each component for which you want to track all the components requires a separate input. Then, you can manually define what is located where on the asset component tree.

To create a new component, click on the green button "Add component" in the upper right corner of your screen. The mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk (*).

A few fields, such as Parent, Component structure, Asset and Inventory, are marked with - and can't be manually edited. These will be displayed after performing some actions, such as "initialising component for counters" and linking a component structure to this component type.

Once you've finished creating your component, click on the "Save" button in the upper right corner of your screen. After creation, the location of the component will automatically appear in the default inventory location.

Note that a component will automatically be created for any asset to which you assigned a maintenance plan (component structure). You don't need to manually create these components before assigning the component structure.

Once the component is automatically created and is available on the platform, you can manually register its build date by looking up your Component on the admin page under Component management, entering the build date and saving the change.

Registering the build date of a component is important as this date will be used as the initialisation date for preventive maintenance. Without a build date, the system will start adding preventive maintenance events starting from 2002, which will create too many unnecessary preventive events if the asset was built after 2002.

The component structure enables you to create the blueprint of the asset by building up the component tree. You can create a clear structure by defining the parent to which the component is attached on the loco. Once you're done, don't forget to save it. After saving a number of structures that are linked to each other on the "frame" of the loco, you will see the clear component structure tree.

Once the component type has been created, you need to see if a corresponding component structure already exists.

Go to the Admin menu -> Railfleet -> Component management -> Component structures to see which component structures are available for your company.

If the desired component structure doesn't exist yet, you can create your own component structure by clicking on "add component structure" in the upper right corner of your screen.

Choose the component type from the dropdown list, define a label, auto serial message type, and auto serial field name if you like, and then click on "Save".

Now you can initialize the component for your counters. The easiest way is to do this per asset class in bulk. Otherwise, you have to do this one by one per vehicle. Go to Assets and filter on the asset class. Choose the vehicles without the active component state by ticking the box, scroll down and choose 'initialize component for counters'. Make sure to select the correct asset class.

Choose "Initialize component for counters" from the dropdown menu, then click on "Go".

Once the initialisation is complete, the component state of the asset will turn to a green checkmark and the asset component structure is listed.

The asset component structure can also be viewed under the asset by scrolling to the section ECM config.

After the initialisation for counters, you can go back to your component structure and add operation groups as needed.

You can create a number of inventories where the components are located when they are not on the asset.

You can choose a physical location for the inventory by using the POI list. If you tick the box "is default", each component that is newly created on the platform will be put in this inventory. Please note that only one default inventory location can be created.

If you would like to keep track of the different states of components while being in inventory, you can differentiate the inventory locations with the mark in their names as "ready" or "to be repaired".

Movements track the history of where the component was during its life cycle. When added to an asset, an extra line appears that shows when and on which asset it has been mounted on.

Under "Movements", you'll get a complete overview of all movements of the components of your entire fleet. The same information can be found on the component level when clicking on the component itself.

Do you still have questions? Go to the Railnova platform and click "Contact us" for help!