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CASSINI, planning train maintenance

A business tool for SNCF Voyageurs’ rolling stock engineering teams: build the work plans that organise every maintenance operation on a train, from the list of tasks to the minute-by-minute schedule of each trade.

The work plan structure screen displayed on a laptop
Client
SNCF Voyageurs
Role
Product Designer
Department
Rolling stock engineering

Context

Every train goes through regular maintenance. Each operation is described in a work plan: which tasks, in which order, by which trade, with which spare parts, tools, documentation and qualifications, on which vehicle and at which position.

These plans are built by engineering teams for many train series and variants, then carried out by technicians in maintenance sites across France. The tool has to handle that volume and level of detail without getting in the way.

The challenge

Turn a dense, highly technical domain into an interface experts can use every day: fast to scan, hard to get wrong.

  • Display large tables of plans and tasks without losing readability
  • Make building a plan a guided process, without slowing down expert users
  • Show at a glance when a plan does not add up, for example when the calculated time exceeds the planned time
  • Bring together data coming from several reference systems

Find any work plan

The home screen lists every work plan. Users search by plan, maintenance programme, task or kit, narrow down with filters by series, variant or maintenance site, and see each plan’s status at a glance: active, in progress, awaiting approval, inactive or to be cancelled.

List of 293 work plans with a filter panel on the left (series, variants, maintenance sites), search by plan, programme, task or kit, and a table with a status badge for each plan
The work plan list: search modes, filters and statuses.

Build a plan step by step

Creating a plan follows four steps: general information, choice of operations, plan structure and plan organisation. In the structure step, tasks are dragged from a task list into steps and macro-tasks. Each macro-task shows its trade, team profile, number of agents, vehicle, position and side, and flags in red when the calculated time goes beyond the planned time.

Work plan creation, step 3 of 4: steps and macro-tasks on the left with their details, a macro-task being dragged into place, and the task list on the right
Structure step: drag and drop macro-tasks, with time alerts.

Everything a task needs

Each task gathers its support elements in one place: skills, documentation, training and qualifications, standard installation, spare parts and tools. Spare parts show their quantity, utilisation rate and source system.

Task detail: plan tree on the left, list of support elements in the middle, and a spare parts table with quantity, utilisation rate and source on the right
Task detail: the plan tree, support elements and spare parts.

See the plan over time

A Gantt view lays out every task over the day, colour-coded by trade (electrician, mechanic, troubleshooter). Plans are versioned, go through approval, and can be exported to PDF or Excel or printed for the workshop.

Gantt view of a work plan awaiting approval, version 3.3: tasks grouped by trade over a timeline in 15-minute slots, with export and print buttons
Gantt view by trade, with versioning, approval status and export.
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