Our next meet-up for INCOSE(NZ) is on the books. Join us on the evening of 7 December, 5:15pm – 6:45pm! The virtual event will feature a presentation from Christian Parra-John (Shoal) and Paul Fergusson (SNC-Lavalin) on Reference Control, Command, and Signalling (CCS) Architecture (RCA).

European rail infrastructure managers, like their New Zealand counterparts, must optimize cost, reliability, safety, capacity, and fast migration. Assets must be renewed while new technologies are introduced. Incompatibilities between vendor products and protocols create high procurement and implementation costs and Whole of Life (WoL) investment risks. Inflexible old architectures bind asset owners to technologies, processes and suppliers which are not making best use of the possibilities of today. Expensive migration challenges, often relating to interfaces and product interoperability, hinder the infrastructure managers from changing their situation fast or cost effectively enough, including the changes required to the various non-asset business elements that enable and influence business performance and output.

We will show how the Reference Control, Command, and Signalling (CCS) Architecture (RCA) can be leveraged in a New Zealand context in conjunction with Digital Engineering approaches to improve asset upgrade and technology innovation whilst simultaneously:

• Significantly reducing Whole of Life (WoL) costs

• Reducing technical risks like those relating to system integration and vendor product interoperability and supportability

• Improving the speed at which asset upgrades and network migrations can be implemented

• Improving how new or upgraded systems are folded into the business’ Asset Management function

• Demonstrating that business case objectives and performance criteria relating to service capacity, frequency, reliability, and safety, are met. 

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