Project Acronym: CENTAVO
Project Title: CENTAVO - Manutenção baseada na Condição para Locomotivas
Responsible @ACMEC: António Ramos Andrade
Participants @IST: Jorge Ambrósio, Helder Rodrigues, Luís Sousa, Paulo Fernandes (ACMEC), Virginia Infante (ACPMME), Marta Gomes (DeCivil)
Other partners: Evoleo (Pt);
Funding Institution: FEDER
Project Reference: 47097
Funding: 229.8 k€ (IST) 1 .07 M€ (Total)
Duration: 24 months starting October 2020
URL:  CENTAVO – Ficha Projeto  - EVOLEO Technologies

Summary: 
CENTAVO project aims to develop a set of tools to monitor the condition of railway locomotive bogies, implementing a condition-based maintenance plan. The main goal is to contribute to the availability, quality of service, maintenance costs and return on investment.

CENTAVO will replace, as far as possible, the condition-based or preventive maintenance tasks of the bogie to predictive maintenance. This goal will be achieved by developing intelligent maintenance tools:

-Support to locating defective components, maintenance programming and integration in daily scheduling of maintenance tasks, complying with stocks and inventory control, and designing maintenance crew according to their skills;

- Validating an open-based architecture capable to communicate asset management data to the operator, apart from the locomotive bogie, locating the occurrences and defects in freight wagons, track condition, etc.;

- Development of a digital twin for the bogie system, based on dynamic simulations of the vehicle and post-processing, considering the local requirement of the system.