Captrain Italia operates 8,300 trains per year, covering 4.9 million miles of rail track. Enzo Talarico was the former Rolling Stock Director (‘Direttore Materiale Rotabile’) for Captrain Italia, and also CEO of Tiber.Co, Captrain’s company focused on the maintenance of rolling stock. He oversaw the use of SoftRail’s MainTrack module.
Operator | Captrain Italia |
Network | Italian rail network, 8,300 trains per year |
Objective | One source of data entry for locomotive maintenance, flowing automatically to production and safety processes |
Solution | MainTrack, fleet maintenance module of the SoftRail suite |
| Impact | Safer planning, faster reaction to locomotive issues, a leaner maintenance team |
Captrain Italia runs 8,300 trains per year on the Italian rail network. For years, its smaller locomotive fleet was managed with Excel files. As the fleet grew, with newer vehicles and more data to track, that stopped being enough: changes in one area did not reach the others. The team needed one source of data entry that would flow automatically to every area of operation. Which is why Captrain adopted MainTrack, the fleet maintenance module of the SoftRail suite.
MainTrack records, plans and monitors preventive and corrective maintenance in one digital system. As the first large operator to use it, Captrain worked directly with Binary System to shape new features. These include combined scheduling of preventive and corrective interventions, forecasting of maintenance needs based on expected kilometres, a Contractual Availability report that shows whether unavailability sits with the ECM or the RU, and a driver mobile app to report locomotive issues in real time.
Maintenance data now flows to production, where shift planners see whether a locomotive can be used and under which restrictions. Alerts arrive before expiry, and expired elements automatically become unavailable. A driver’s report triggers an alert, so production knows immediately that a locomotive is out and can reorganise. The team works faster, and without MainTrack Captrain would need at least one more person.
The full case study covers how Captrain moved from Excel to one source of data, which features were shaped together with Binary System, and how maintenance data now supports safety and planning. Download it to see the details behind the results.
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