Train operator Southern, rolling stock leasing company HSBC Rail, and software solutions company Tessella are celebrating after TAPAS (the ‘Train Automatic Performance Analysis System’) has won yet another award at the prestigious National Transport Awards ceremony, at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on 15th July 2008.

Groundbreaking technology, TAPAS, has transformed traditional train maintenance by introducing a remote condition-based maintenance system, which can be applied to existing mid-life fleets as well as new rolling stock.

Nick Clarke, technical manager at Tessella said: “I am extremely delighted that TAPAS has won this award.  TAPAS has increased the reliability of the Class 455 fleet from 6,000 to 16-17,000 miles per failure, which is excellent news for passengers, at the same time as reducing routine maintenance time.”

Nick Clarke continued: “The changes in the structure of the transport industry have driven companies to modernize and seek new solutions to key challenges such as asset management, condition monitoring, maintenance planning and revenue management. One of Tessella’s defining qualities is to add value to our clients business by taking capabilities and technologies developed in one industry sector and using them to deliver innovative solutions in a completely different sector. Uniting innovation with previous experience, Tessella is perfectly placed to help organizations exploit new technology and so take their performance, and the services they provide, to another level.”

In 2007, Southern, HSBC Rail and Tessella won the Railway Industry Innovation Award in the category of Engineering and Information Technology showing the continued success of TAPAS.

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Notes to editors:

For press enquiries or to arrange an interview with Tessella please contact Christina Tealdi, Marketing Communications & PR Executive, on +44 (0) 1235 555511 or christina.tealdi@tessella.com
For press enquiries or to arrange an interview with Southern please contact Chris Hudson on 020 8929 8673 or chris.hudson@southernrailway.com
For press enquiries with HSBC Rail please contact Wendy Filer on 020 7380 5057 or wendyfiler@hsbc.com

• Founded in 1980, Tessella specializes in the application of innovative solutions to scientific, technical and engineering problems, and its offices within the UK, US and the Netherlands have built long-term relationships with organizations at the leading edge of the scientific and engineering world. Tessella is vendor independent and recommends ‘best of breed’ solutions, whether this involves custom software development or off-the-shelf solutions
• HSBC Rail (UK) Ltd owns approximately one third of the UK’s rolling stock and provides a comprehensive range of rolling stock and management services for rail passenger and freight markets. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank plc, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc.  HSBC Holdings plc serves over 128 million clients worldwide through around 10,000 offices in 83 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of some US$2,354 billion at 31 December 2007, HSBC is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations. HSBC is marketed worldwide as ‘the world’s local bank’.
• Southern provides rail services in south London and between central London and the South Coast, through East and West Sussex and Surrey, and parts of Kent and Hampshire. Last year Southern carried 120 million passengers. Their 3,500 staff manage162 stations and operate and maintain a fleet of 300 new and refurbished trains.

Contact details

Tessella Support Services plc (Headquarters)
3 Vineyard Chambers
Abingdon
Oxfordshire, OX14 3PX
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1235 555511, Fax: +44 (0) 1235 553301

Tessella also has UK offices in Burton upon Trent, Cambridge, Stevenage, Warrington and Winchester

Tessella Support Services plc
Tauro Kantorencentrum
President Kennedylaan 19
2517JK Den Haag
The Netherlands
Tel/Fax: +31 (0) 70 354 2296

Tessella Inc
233 Needham Street, Suite 300
Newton, MA 02464
USA
Tel: (1) 617 454 1220, Fax: (1) 617 454 1001
Tessella Inc also has an office in Washington DC

info@tessella.com

Relates to: asset-condition-management, government

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