Live & Online, 25 & 26 June 2026, Frankfurt, Germany.
Prioritising To Ensure Reliability Under Pressure. Scaling What Works. Fixing What Doesn't. For All Assets.
Prioritising To Ensure Reliability Under Pressure. Scaling What Works. Fixing What Doesn't. For All Assets.
Why Now? A Critical Juncture for Fleet-Wide Reliability Under Pressure
2026-7 is a defining period for European rail operators—not because a single disruptive technology has arrived, but because the entire fleet, across all life stages, is under pressure to perform.
Whether it's new rolling stock coming online with advanced digital capability, mid-life assets needing smarter maintenance, or legacy units still in daily service, operators face the same expectation:
deliver higher reliability, minimise disruption, and do it all while controlling cost.
The challenge isn’t just about deploying new systems—it’s about making the whole fleet work harder, smarter, and longer. Condition-based maintenance (CBM) is moving into the mainstream as a pragmatic middle ground between preventative and fully predictive models. Though predictive solutions remain limited in deployment, often seen as not yet operationally proven, CBM has emerged as a pragmatic and scalable approach—particularly effective for critical failure points such as brakes, couplers, and doors.
Yet even as tools mature, key obstacles persist: depot workflows often aren’t ideally configured for real-time data, alerts are inconsistently acted on, and frontline teams can be mismatched to digital maturity. And although the technologies vary—ERTMS, CBTC, DAC, hybrid propulsion—the integration headaches are strikingly similar.
Bridging Passenger and Freight: One Event, Two Critical Agendas
We've made the strategic decision to bring our rolling stock maintenance and depot innovation platform to Frankfurt—and crucially, to broaden its scope. What began as a focus on mainline, metro, and regional passenger fleets now includes a dedicated freight stream.
Condition, Predictive or Time-Based?
Yes, freight and passenger operators face distinct operational realities—but the strategic dilemma is common: when should you use predictive, CBM, or stick with time-based regimes? Whether it’s traction units, hybrid sets, or legacy stock, both sectors are actively rethinking how maintenance models apply across fleet lifecycles.
The Format: One Event, Three Interconnected Days
Day 1: Passenger Reliability & Maintenance
Mainline, regional, and metro operators share real-world strategies for predictive integration, retrofit sequencing, and managing fleet diversity across different regimes.
Day 2: Depot Day – Freight + Passenger Streams
Split tracks for freight and passenger—but with intentional cross-pollination. This is where alert-driven workflows, depot redesign, and digital tool implementation are explored in detail.
Day 3: Freight Operational Readiness & Predictive Scale-Up
Focused entirely on the freight sector. Covers DAC, CBM rollout, and the organisational leap required to make data actually change behaviour on the ground.
Common Challenge: Predictive, Condition, or Time-Based?
Across the agenda, you’ll learn:
From Lessons to Leverage: What Operators Wish They’d Known
The most valuable stories often come from frontline experience.
You’ll hear directly from operators who’ve navigated:
Key learning takeaways:
Integration is the Hard Part: It’s Not Just the System, It’s the Shift
Our recent ETCS Business Readiness event made one thing clear: installing new systems is the easy part. Embedding them into live operations is the hard bit.
That’s why this event includes dedicated sessions on:
DAC and the Freight Readiness Gap
On the freight side, the transition to DAC is more than hardware. It forces a total rethink of freight maintenance and depot design—especially for cross-border operators. Yet freight is still behind passenger in predictive maturity.
That’s why this agenda gives freight a platform to:
European passenger and freight operators
