The formation of a full-fledged system of indicators linking customer orientation with the end-to-end processes of business units, responsibility for their execution will allow achieving a significant increase in the efficiency of the company’s activities, improving the quality of transport services and making a significant step in solving the strategic tasks set for Russian Railways.
1.4 Innovative activity development in the management of the Russian Railways Holding
The key indicators of the company’s innovation activity are such indicators as labor productivity growth, the volume and efficiency of innovative technical means implemented, energy efficiency of the transportation process, the number of security documents received for the results of intellectual activity.
In the conditions of a difficult economic situation, the company is forced to reduce the amount of funding for the work provided for by the scientific and technical development plan. At the same time, the share of funds from the business community and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research attracted for research and development work increases annually.
In accordance with the import substitution program, together with the Italian company ESM S.P.A., a multi-station microprocessor centralization system with integrated auto-locking is being created. For the first time, a project with open source software and a computer-aided design system is being implemented according to Russian regulatory safety requirements. It is envisaged to use low-maintenance floor equipment of domestic production, i.e. the system will have a high level of adaptability. The cost of its life cycle will be 20% less compared to the currently supplied microprocessor centralization systems.
The technology of organizing the movement of freight trains according to energy-optimal schedules was further developed within the framework of train traffic management in the direction. A significant result of 2014 was the implementation of end-to-end planning of the train schedule and the virtually complete elimination of quasi-junctions between roads in the directions from Inskaya station to Chelyabinsk-Main and Yekaterinburg-Sortirovochny stations. Currently, more than 1.8 thousand locomotives are equipped with devices for informing the driver about the current energy-optimal train schedule, there is an automatic garter for trains of locomotives and locomotive crews. The use of this technology only at the specified landfill gave an annual energy savings of more than 120 million kWh and ensured the departure of freight trains according to the schedule at the level of 75%, the passage – at the level of 35%.
One of the key areas of implementation of the company’s scientific and technical policy is the introduction of innovations in the infrastructure complex, where the share of expenses for transportation activities is about 35% of the total. The priority here is to reduce the cost of the life cycle of objects, provided that the safety of the transportation process and a high level of reliability of technical means are ensured. A number of innovative solutions in infrastructure maintenance are presented at.
Exactly one hundred years ago, the world’s first track measuring car designed by Nikolai Emelyanovich Dolgov went on its first flight. And now Russian engineers are not giving up their positions in this high-tech segment. Thus, the diagnostic complexes “Era” and “Integral” are superior to foreign analogues “Archimedes” (Italy), IRIS 320 (France) both in terms of the number of controlled parameters and the degree of automation of management and information processing processes. A new stage in the development of mobile diagnostic tools was the first complex for monitoring the infrastructure of the Baikal-Amur mainline, created on the basis of the 2TE116 diesel locomotive. It replaces several cars of infrastructure diagnostics and, most importantly, during the inspection affects the track with an axial load of up to 23.5.
