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Young Talents in Maintenance - Work Planning as a Part of Smooth Run

Maintenance work planners must have careful planning and organization skills to maintain rail equipment. During the summer, VR FleetCare had four planners: Rosita and Andreas worked on long-distance traffic in Helsinki, Veera on locomotives, and Ilpo on the component side in Pieksämäki.

29. October 2024 Articles Topical

Young Talents in Maintenance – How the Mechanics in Helsinki Depot Keep the Trains on Track

VR FleetCare's mechanics do important work to keep rail traffic running smoothly. The results of their work are tangible for everyone who travels on the trains. Tessa, who worked as a refrigeration mechanic at the Ilmala depot in Helsinki during the summer, made sure that the trains' air conditioning and food freezers worked while Jere, who worked in commuter traffic during the summer, maintained and repaired commuter trains, for example, doors and traction motors.

17. October 2024 Articles Topical

Young Talents in Maintenance – Sanni and Elina’s Role in Sustainable Rail Maintenance

Sanni worked at VR FleetCare for the summer of 2024 as an environmental specialist in Pieksämäki and Elina as a development specialist in Helsinki. Both felt that the work experience at FleetCare has not only taught them about railways as an operating environment but also strengthened their own expertise.

10. October 2024 Articles Topical

Young Talents in Maintenance – From Quality Checks to Passenger Safety

Railways are a unique environment and an interesting industry – according to Manu, a quality engineer at VR FleetCare, and Jere, a safety trainee.

3. October 2024 Articles Topical

Pieksämäki machine shop sends 200 stoves to Ukraine

In addition to its normal operations, the Pieksämäki machine shop is currently manufacturing stoves for Ukraine. The most important thing for everyone involved is the opportunity to help Ukrainians in the midst of a crisis.

1. February 2023 Articles News and press releases Topical Responsibility

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13. September 2022 Articles Services Digi

The Power of Digitalisation in Track Equipment Maintenance

The digital monitoring of track equipment makes it possible to carry out maintenance before a defect causes traffic disruption. There is increasing interest in the potential of condition monitoring to support railway asset management and maintenance.

8. September 2022 Articles Services Digi Customer

Data and Maintenance of Rolling Stock – How to Get the Most Out of the Combination

Digitalisation is strongly making its way to the maintenance of rolling stock and railway infrastructure. Amidst all the hype, it is worth remembering that collecting data is only one part, the essential thing is to understand how to use it.

1. September 2022 Articles Digi Services

Delivery reliability for the customers’ project deliveries was provided by the development of project management

VR FleetCare aims to seek growth from the modernisation projects of the rail fleet. To achieve our goals, well-designed and executed projects are extremely important to us and our customers. Implementing projects competitively is also challenging and risky without an appropriate project management model. We wanted to start further strengthening our project expertise and as a partner for development, we chose Adapro, whose project management models are practically functional and are based on international project management standards.

11. May 2022 Articles News and press releases Responsibility Customer