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Graeme Ackland B. AppSci (Elect)

FIRSE ALSTOM AUSTRALIA

The purpose of this paper is to examine the tools available to the Commissioning Engineer to achieve successful commissioning.

Railway Commissioning activities are performed under a very tight time fiame, with substantial operational repercussion if the time fiame is exceeded, and safety repercussions if the testing procedures are not followed.

My paper today will firstly define a commissioning and its component activities. I will then look at a number of tools and strategies that are used, and then examine the use and abuse of these tools by examining a number of commissionings.

There have been a number of papers written about testing strategies but this paper concentrates on the method used to affect the alterations to signalling systems.