APRR-AREA improves user comfort through predictive maintenance thanks to Oxand Infrasim.

Context:

APRR-AREA, the second largest highway group in France, is responsible for operating part of the highway network in the country and owns more than 3,000 bridges in its network. In order to improve the user experience of the network and guarantee safety while optimizing investments in bridge maintenance, APRR-AREA wanted to define a multi-year investment plan incorporating a preventive dimension in the maintenance strategy, while capitalizing on existing data through a digitized repository. Since 2018, Oxand has been supporting APRR-AREA through the Infrasim software.

Solution

Centralize scattered data on infrastructure in a digitized repository.
Conduct a component-by-component analysis of each bridge.
Simulate the aging of components and bridges to anticipate maintenance needs and act preventively, in the form of widespread “campaigns.”
Objectively determine investment needs to communicate with management and reduce construction costs and user disruption.
Continuously monitor bridge surveillance by linking safety audit data to the investment plan simulation and maintenance scenario software, Oxand Infrasim.

Gains

Additional budgets obtained by demonstrating the gains allowed by preventive management rather than curative management.

Alignment of the management strategy, allocated budgets, and actual technical needs.

Improving the customer experience through a reduction in the duration of construction works (preventive maintenance is less burdensome than curative maintenance).

Visualization of the cumulative costs to invest at the best moment.

Grouping of construction operations through component-based renovation campaigns.

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