It’s exciting times at AARC Professional Services, with the recent news of our recommendation for ISO 9001 quality certification accompanied by the expansion of our service offerings, which now include Rail Infrastructure and specifically the management of operational assets, including rail engineering and rail maintenance.
Whilst we have been providing SME (subject matter expert) support on rail maintenance and asset management for some time, up until recently they had largely formed part of our operations and project offerings. However, having been lucky enough to have had several highly experienced people from the world of rail maintenance and rail asset management recently join the AARCPS family, we felt now was the ideal time to review and restructure the business, creating a dedicated Rail Infrastructure section. These changes are now reflected on the website and across our marketing activity.
But what does this actually mean in practical terms? To summarise, it means that clients/prospective clients can now benefit from the following:
- Advice on/development of asset management strategies
- Support for standards, policy and process reviews
- Provision of technical advisory assistance
- Support for asset performance management
- Support with maintenance readiness, helping take new/changed assets into operational use
- Support for third party contractors with:
- The development of robust asset protection documentation
- Interface (e.g. Contractor Engineering Management activities) with rail asset owners e.g. Network Rail
- Handover requirements/compliance
We believe that this restructuring of our service offerings will also make it easier for people to pinpoint exactly what they are looking for, so that we can in turn provide the right level of expertise/support from our pool of time served professionals.
As part of this restructure, we have also rebranded Projects & Engineering to Business Change & Projects, with an emphasis on those activities associated with project change, from small procedural issues to whole scale organisational restructuring across all stages of the project lifecycle. This also ties-in with the work we already deliver in support of operational and maintenance readiness, helping to highlight the need to recognise and implement change requirements in direct support of various standards and procedural changes. You can find out more about these latest changes on the home/services pages of the website. Alternatively, if you’d like to discuss in more detail how we can help you achieve your goals, please get in touch at info@aarcps.co.uk or call us on 07841 611657.
