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Maintenance
Key features
Number of Regional Maintenance Centres (RMC): seven
Number of workshops / outlets including RMC-s: thirty three
Annual workshop visits of rail passenger cars: 29 – 33 thousands
Annual workshop visits of freight wagons (incl. state test): 23 thousands
Rolling Stock groups:
| Traction Locomotives: | 600 Units | ||||||||||
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| Shunting Locomotives: | 290 Units | ||||||||||
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| Power Coaches: | 330 Units | ||||||||||
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| Passenger cars: | 2 700 Units | ||||||||||
RMC-s and their workshops are utilized for delivering standard maintenance jobs based on the strict maintenance schedules and to perform small repairs on actual demands. The need for maintenance visits is calculated on a combined time and mileage base, whichever comes first. Some of the workshops are specialized for freight wagons state authority test. Each workshop is linked to a job competence list showing the job content limitations of that particular workshop. 
On the other hand, each RMC can be identified as special repair task holder, being skilled and filled with specific job knowledge and tools for that job category.
The following list shows the above mentioned work cooperation in practice demonstrating each of all RMC-s special strengths.
Dedicated special activities of the individual Regional Maintenance Centres (RMC-s)
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RMC Budapest | |
| Maintenance of Taurus electric Locomotives | ||
| Specialized for coaches running on international routes | ||
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RMC Debrecen | |
| State authority test for freight wagons | ||
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RMC Dombóvár | |
| Collision repairs for all Locomotives | ||
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RMC Miskolc | |
| Maintenance and small repairs of third generation InterCity coaches | ||
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RMC Szeged | |
| Exclusive maintenance of Power Coaches Type Bpmot Double Units | ||
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RMC Szombathely | |
| Special workshop for remotorized Locomotives M62 and M41 |
Availability based maintenance
Due to the technological upgrades and the strong demand of cost reduction within MÁV Group, MÁV-GÉPÉSZET Zrt intends to implement a brand new Vehicle Availability Based Maintenance System during 2012. The fully operational rail vehicle stock is in the core of the new system and not the traditional approach that earlier put the individual vehicle real operability on the rail in the efficiency focus.
From operational reliability point of view an individual vehicle can never eliminate 100%-ly the risk of failure during its operation. Even if a very accurate maintenance schedule is applied. With the availability based system a stock of vehicles are ready for operation and the risk of an individual vehicle failure does not effect significantly on the overall stock operational performance. Actually, with a well prepared selection of best reliable vehicles the total operational reliability can be stabilized at almost the 100% efficiency level. Having the non selected vehicles, they immediately appear as less reliable units and they are clearly visible vehicles that are ready for the next scrapping procedure.
As a result of separation of “more” and “less” reliable vehicle group will be identified within the total rolling stock. As the next step the reliability level of best performing vehicles will be further improved, meanwhile the worst scoring units will be withdrawn from the traffic.
There is a clear advantage for the vehicle operator since the operational efficiency is improved. In addition, the vehicle operator pays for the overall successful vehicle stock operation only and the price is fix, irrelevantly from the actual unit maintenance costs. From MÁV-GÉPÉSZET Zrt point of view there is a number of positive effects on the maintenance work conditions. There is no peak season of individual vehicle maintenance need, since a stock of vehicles is handled by the company. No individual vehicle handover inspection and administration work during taking and passing back to the operator. There is a very clear situation in identifying the reliability level of the stock units. In addition, a number of parts of pulled out vehicles can be refurbished and use them again, reducing the total parts purchasing cost and increase the parts availability level.
The availability based maintenance achieves the common interest level between the vehicle operator and the servicing company to provide a highly reliable train operation for the rail passengers according to the published timetable.
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