Service-Oriented Computing for intelligent train maintenance

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this work is to apply the servicization of enterprise information systems in maintenance, particularly in the management of the maintenance process of the component parts of trains. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural approach that permits servicization since it provides a flexible set of design principles used during the modeling practices (abstraction and realization). With a view to supporting the model-driven engineering of software systems, Mode Driven Architecture (MDA) is a design approach delivering a set of guidelines for the configuring of specifications in systems development. Therefore, the combination of these two approaches can be fruitful to address the challenging issues the enterprise information system is facing today. Our study is based on a methodological approach using the MDA models for the automatic generation of web service. The case study concerns a Railways Maintenance Workshop (RMW) at Sidi Bel Abbes (Algeria). Finally, the information system for the management of maintenance of the component parts of passengers and baggage railcars, using the generated solution, is realized and deployed. This software helps to have better management of the RMW by the effective planning of interventions, improve performance by increasing reliability, traceability, and availability of the equipment (parts).

KEYWORDS:

• Servicization
• enterprise information systems
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
• railways maintenance

Highlights

• Stiervicization for flexible design principles in collaborative computing practices.

• Combining Service-oriented architecture (SOA) with Model-driven architecture (MDA).

• Methodology for the alignment between the business view and information system view

• Case study for the parts fleet management system of Railway Maintenance Workshops.

• Servitization improves maintenance with services based innovation in collaboration.

Acknowledgments

This work is supported by a funding within the grant of “Programme de Formation des Formateurs des Universités de Bamako et de Ségou”, delivered by the Malian government. We want to thank the Doctoral School Aeronautics and Astronautics of Toulouse University whose activities have stimulated the research works described in the content of the paper. Thanks are extended to Enterprise Information Systems’ reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions during the entire review process.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Programme de Formation des Formateurs des Universités de Bamako et de Ségou (PFF), Convention N°15 - 050 -/ USJPB-R/PFF - [0137.919-B], GOUVERNEMENT DE LA REPUBLIQUE DU MALI.