Keywords: optimization, security, reliability, management, scheduling, maintenance, strategy.

This paper presents a methodology for optimizing of the manpower (man-hours) in the railway maintenance workshop, by the application of data and analysis of the time spent in each maintenance zone of this railway workshop based on the use of the OptJob system which is used to optimize maintenance cycle times. This enables online monitoring of activities in the workshops. Until now, much of the manpower allocation for maintenance was not controlled by managers, making the process unproductive and imprecise. This was because there was not a system that allowed the manager to monitor the man power allocation of hours-man for staff maintenance activity and pauses during work shifts. The workshops were not aware of all the information for the estimated capacity of the master plans. In the past the manpower was not accurately allocated to achieve the maintenance plan. Further, there was no data concerning the timing of activities and there was no workforce productivity monitoring. The OptJob system is a monitoring tool that has now made this possible and presents the manpower by hours (man-hours) necessary for each maintenance zone and for each maintenance activity. The system makes it possible to identify bottlenecks and efficiently distribute maintenance crews.

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