At Talgo we are proud to be a pioneer company in providing complete maintenance solutions to railway operators all over the world since the 1950s. Talgo, a leader in manufacturing and maintenance, has the advantage of being able to close its products' technological cycle. From the maintenance facilities where the maintenance is given, passing through engineering and technical assistance departments, to the manufacturing facilities, Talgo generates complete technical knowledge of all the elements and systems, allowing the analysis, tests and continuous improvement of these in order to obtain an ever-increasing service time.

Safety
For evaluation and decision making, safety will be the most important consideration. If a train is not safe to be released after a service, options and solutions will be analyzed, coordinated and provided to the railroad. All tasks performed will be in accordance to the customer contract and Federal regulations.

Innovation
The most modern maintenance techniques of the railway industry will be applied. RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) is one of the techniques applied by Talgo using all the experience and know-how acquired during all the years performing maintenance services.

Quality
Based on the ISO 9000 certification, a complete and proven Quality Assurance plan is implemented to all maintenance activities to obtain the highest quality standards. Qualified personnel, company philosophy, training programs and quality control methods are the basis to ensure the expected standards.



Experience
Talgo, as a world pioneer in maintaining passenger trains for its customers since 1950, applies all the acquired experience and know-how to provide and improve maintenance services.

Customer service
A professional organization that cares about its customers and passengers as one of the keys for the success.

The maintenance activities, personnel and philosophy are focused to provide the best service to customers and passengers.

Talgo, Inc. in North America can provide a full package of maintenance services for your passenger cars and locomotives.

Our philosophy in the maintenance field has been highly successful as it offers the highest levels of quality in the services provided, a high level of flexibility to adapt to the operator’s needs, and complete service throughout the entire life cycle of the trains.

To accomplish the required maintenance, Talgo, Inc. can analyze the maintenance requirements; determine the tasks and resources necessary to ensure that your equipment is maintained appropriately. The maintenance plan will ensure that customer contract, OEM requirements and Federal Regulations are fully realized and implemented.

The balanced distribution of maintenance tasks is essential to optimize work load and stand still of the trainsets during all the maintenance period. This distribution ensures a correct sizing of personnel and operations for all maintenance requirements.

Using Talgo trains with Talgo Maintenance services provides you an opportunity to reduce the overall Life Cycle Costs (LCC) as Talgo has the skill, knowledge and experience to maintain Talgo trains.

Talgo, Inc's Maintenance Services include:

• Preventive Maintenance, including FRA Daily Inspections
• On-Board Technicians (OBTs)

• Corrective Maintenance
• Interior and Exterior Cleaning

• Predictive Maintenance
• Condition Based Maintenance
• Modification
• Large Scale Repairs
• Overhaul
• Maintenance Engineering

Talgo Inc. ensures that the maintenance requirements are appropriately implemented. We utilize our Maintenance Manual to ensure that maintenance tasks are clearly recognized and communicated for our maintenance personnel. Training is provided to ensure personnel are appropriately aware and skilled for their job tasks. The Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) ensures that all maintenance requirements are appropriately planned and scheduled according to Contract, OEM, and FRA requirements.

Maintenance Manual
Talgo has developed maintenance manuals throughout all the years that we have been performing maintenance, using the extensive experience and knowledge acquired of our own products. These manuals have been optimized per type of equipment allowing Talgo to reduce its maintenance costs, optimize performance and provide an excellent availability and reliability result to its customers. The manuals also can be used in the training process, and it will be the base for scheduling the maintenance operations with the Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS).

Training
An employee training and development program will be instituted that will ensure all employees are capable of safe, environmentally sound, timely, efficient, quality work, and we will encourage employees to improve their performance by learning new skills and qualifying for broader roles throughout their company tenure.

All new Talgo employees will go through a complete training program that will include theory, hands on, tests and certification as new employees or as part of their on-going training. The training program will cover the following manuals:

• Maintenance manual
• Troubleshooting manual
• On-board repair manual (only OBT)
• Spare part manual

The review of the manuals listed above will provide to the employees the technical knowledge to provide the best performance during the diagnostics and corrective actions.

The training program has the flexibility to cover new maintenance needs, like, for example, a new failure identified, difficulties to fix certain failures or modification on systems.

Computerized Maintenance Management System
The Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) will be an important tool for maintenance management operations. Some of the most important functions will be:

• Scheduling maintenance operations (PM's)
• Maintenance reporting
• Analyzing maintenance trends
• Labor control
• Purchasing
• Inventory control and studies

During the layover inspection and maintenance tasks, the work plan allows a distribution of labor, materials and operations to ensure the maximum availability of trainsets for revenue service. For corrective and preventive operations included in the S&I layover tasks, the maintenance computer system will provide information to control, analyze and study optimization of these operations.