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More than Half of Fleet Maintenance Spend Goes to Wheelsets

For many fleets, wheelset replacements quietly add up to more than half of total maintenance spend, and a large share of those changeouts happen at foreign repair shops billed at AAR rates.

This webinar shows how one 10,000-car fleet took back control and saved $200K a year.
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What You Will Learn

  • How a 10,000-railcar fleet identified they had a wheelset spend problem

  • What drives foreign repair spend

  • Why the optimal time to replace a wheelset is a balancing act between wheelset lifespan and cost control

  • How combining predictive risk signals with car location and operational constraints helps teams intervene at the right time, in the right place, without replacing wheelsets too early

  • How one 10,000-car fleet shifted wheelset replacements from costly foreign repairs to lower-cost home shops — saving $200K per year

  • KPIs to measure success when implementing a new wheelset program

Presenters

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Gregg Phillips

Product Manager | Reporting & Analytics

Phillips leads TransmetriQ Reporting & Analytics, drawing on more than 24 years of experience with rail technology and data analytics to curate actionable rail insights. Phillips brings deep expertise across industry data sources such as Umler®, EHMS, and CRB.

TransmetriQ Reporting & Analytics identifies proactive opportunities to reduce maintenance costs, rightsize fleets, and improve uptime.

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Alex Terpolilli

Solutions Engineer | Reporting & Analytics

Terpolilli brings more than seven years of experience at Railinc turning customer needs into reliable, clean, and useful analytics solutions. Most recently, he helped a customer replace a manual data-scraping process with automated insights.

Terpolilli oversees requirements gathering, solutions development, QA, and customer delivery — working in Snowflake SQL, Python, and AWS QuickSight.

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