DIESEL LOCO SHED AT A GLANCE
DIESEL LOCO SHED AT A GLANCE
This maintenance and up keeping of locomotive in the interest of Safety, Reliability and punctually are an importance feature. Economical operation, optimum utilization with minimum incurrence of expenditure has bearing on the maintenance aspects. There are 2 ways of Maintenance, Preventive and Breakdown. Railway is adopting preventive maintenance though it is costly to keep The wheels moving as it cannot afford to lose time, congestion in traffic consequent to failure enroot. The other way the financial crunch is causing anxiety to limit the expenditure. Hence two ways are chosen. One is time bound replacement of spares. While the other one is condition. –basis replacement; certain amount of risk is involved in following either of these. As such a break – even point is struck where condition and time matrix is used. Huge amount of inventory is involved in the maintenance work of these stocks leading to as high as 60 crores of investment. Every scientific exercise is made and management is adhered for inventory control.