As our populations grow and pressure on transport and its supporting infrastructure increases, our governments are focused on increasing and improving these services to transport people and cargo across the country safely and efficiently.
Systematiq’s team are experts in Rail and Transport Consulting. No matter what stage your project is in, be it initial planning or the various stages of project delivery, our rail and transport consultants are qualified to add value and keep your projects moving forward.
Our expertise is primarily in Rail and Transport Tender Writing and Project Procurement, Light Rail Consulting, Transport & Asset Management, and Rail Consulting. Our business services include Engineering Management including testing, Project Management, Safety Assurance and Training Support. Our services are flexible and scalable to suit your specific requirements and our attention to detail combined with industry best practice ensures that your organisation achieves success.
Rail Tender Writing and Project Procurement
Market Analysis and Strategy
We create sophisticated market analysis reports, identification of key programs, projects and competitors that identify your business planning for new markets. We design and develop strategies to assist with positioning existing products or services.
Campaign and Capture Planning
We are experts at the development of capture plans that identify win themes, address potential weaknesses, understand competitor strategies and how to win business.
Executive Overviews and Marketing Strategy
We provide a highly structured, customer-focused approach to developing clients’ executive summaries. These documents elevate our clients’ brand and value proposition. They can accompany proposals or form part of a broader marketing campaign. We develop marketing strategies targeted to specific outcomes and to accommodate all budgets.
Project Procurement
Our procurement support services enable sound decision making by providing expertise in data collection and analysis, business case development, risk analysis, supplier selection, contract development and management. From writing the Statement of Work to managing the delivery of requirements against a contract, we can help with the writing of contract documents for the engagement of suppliers on major programs and managing the delivery of contracted products or services.
Light Rail Consultants
With constantly growing populations in our major capital cities, governments, investors, transport manufacturers, operators and maintainers are constantly searching for innovative and best practice solutions to improve the cost efficiencies of supporting and expanding light rail infrastructure.
Systematiq are experienced in Light Rail Consulting. No matter what stage your project is in, be it initial planning or the late stages of delivery, our rail and transport consultants are qualified to add value and keep your projects moving forward.
Our business services include project management, systems engineering, safety assurance, and training support with recent projects demonstrating our skills in Systems Engineering, Reliability and Life Cycle Cost Modelling.
Our services are flexible and scalable to suit your specific requirements and our attention to detail combined with industry best practice ensures that your organisation achieves success.
KEY PROJECTS:
Yarra Trams Reliability and Life Cycle Cost Modelling November 2018
Systematiq provides Yarra Trams with solutions for improving Asset Management by establishing standard functional hierarchies for Rolling Stock, Infrastructure and Operational Control Management Systems. These hierarchies required the design and implementation of Reliability and Life Cycle to Cost Modelling in order to provide senior management with the means of making effective network and support decisions.
Yarra Trams Engineering Management Planning November 2019
Systematiq delivers ISO1588 Project Framework and Competency Guidelines so Yarra Trams meets industry and government standards.
Transport and Asset Management
Rail and transport organisations are challenged by the need to develop best practice performance in the management of assets.
Systematiq are specialist consultants in the management of assets in the transport sector. Our work with a range of industry and government sectors has allowed us to develop an integrated approach to asset management. This approach is aimed at providing cost-effective infrastructure to achieve responsive and long term business objectives.
- business planning and strategy
- service delivery strategy
- operations planning and delivery
- risk management
- maintenance planning and delivery
- capital works planning and management
- asset disposal
Our approach is based on integrating strategic and business planning, developing service delivery and asset strategies, risk management, capital investment planning, maintenance planning, infrastructure outcomes monitoring, capital works and maintenance activity execution.
Systematiq will assist in the development of asset strategies and asset management policies, practices and processes, using tools and methodologies such as process improvement analysis, gap analysis, systems reviews, whole life costing and prioritisation models.
Key Projects:
Systematiq provides MTM with a Risk and Safety Assurance Manager June 2019
MTM required a Risk and Safety Assurance Manager to continue essential work being undertaken, and specifically to critically examine the safety case artefacts presented by the Supplier which contributes to the safety assurance of the 65 soon to be introduced High Capacity Melbourne Trains, the accompanying training simulator as well as a maintenance and test track depot.
Rail Consulting
Our team of highly qualified consultants are experts in rail consulting services. NO matter what stage your project is in, be it initial planning or the latter stages of delivery, or whether you are a private company or government authority, our consultants are able and motivated to add value and keep your projects moving forward.
Our business services include rail tender and bid support, project management, systems engineering, safety assurance, and training support.

Rail Project Management
Rail Project Management
To ensure the successful delivery of your next project, our team can help you meet your contracted obligations and ensure you remain on track
We deliver the full range of project management services including project planning, contract management, risk management and project closure.
Project Planning and Work Breakdown Structures
Our project management practitioners can help you to develop Work Breakdown Structures for your project to enable a better understanding of the project deliverables and outcomes.
Contract Master Schedule Development
We can support you in designing project master schedules can ensure project success with definition of key activities, resource allocation and bringing together key stakeholders.
Project Management Support and Contract Management
No project is the same and we offer flexible support with ad hoc rail project management assistance and rail contract support, through to project team leadership, reporting and progress meeting facilitation.
Project Status Reporting and Auditing
Our experience in project delivery can assist your organisation to determine if your project is progressing against what is scheduled or help you to understand where you are and what you have left to do to achieve the project objectives.
RAIL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
We can ensure capability is available when you need it. Our team of experts can assist with all facets of supportability engineering including systems engineering, logistics support analysis, utilisation analysis, disposal and documentation
Systems Engineering Plans
We develop Systems Engineering plans that comply with the requirements of EIA 612 and ISO 15288, which will help you to understand the process required to acquire and enter a new system into service. Our expertise includes the identification of configurable items, baseline establishment and management, control, reporting and auditing.
We also develop verification (test that it meets the requirements) and validation (demonstrating that this is what you wanted) programs to ensure that your new capability is what you described and will meet your needs. This may also involve facilitating workshops and developing your technical staff’s knowledge of the FMEA/FMECA activity and how to implement the findings on your products.
Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) Consulting
We provide advice on implementing RCM within your organisation to ensure your maintenance resources and support networks are focused on doing the necessary maintenance actions to keep your assets operating effectively. Our practitioners also understand how to identify, analyse and execute risk control measures to ensure your organisation’s legislative, contractual and organisational requirements are met.
Through Life Capability Management
We can ensure that your organization’s inventory management, maintenance resources and supply chain are optimised to increase asset availability and minimise cost of ownership.
Logistics Support Analysis
Our practitioners can help you to understand and develop the technical elements of the Logistics Support Analysis that are crucial to realising the potential of your assets and control cost of ownership.
Rail Safety Assurance
We can ensure capability is available when you need it. Our team of experts can assist with all facets of supportability engineering including systems engineering, logistics support analysis, utilisation analysis, disposal and documentation
Systems Engineering Plans
We develop Systems Engineering plans that comply with the requirements of EIA 612 and ISO 15288, which will help you to understand the process required to acquire and enter a new system into service. Our expertise includes the identification of configurable items, baseline establishment and management, control, reporting and auditing.
We also develop verification (test that it meets the requirements) and validation (demonstrating that this is what you wanted) programs to ensure that your new capability is what you described and will meet your needs. This may also involve facilitating workshops and developing your technical staff’s knowledge of the FMEA/FMECA activity and how to implement the findings on your products.
Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) Consulting
We provide advice on implementing RCM within your organisation to ensure your maintenance resources and support networks are focused on doing the necessary maintenance actions to keep your assets operating effectively. Our practitioners also understand how to identify, analyse and execute risk control measures to ensure your organisation’s legislative, contractual and organisational requirements are met.
Through Life Capability Management
We can ensure that your organisation’s inventory management, maintenance resources and supply chain are optimised to increase asset availability and minimise cost of ownership.
Logistics Support Analysis
Our practitioners can help you to understand and develop the technical elements of the Logistics Support Analysis that are crucial to realising the potential of your assets and control cost of ownership.
Rail Training Support
Modern, complex engineering and infrastructure programs require a highly trained workforce to design, manage and maintain for the life of a service. Core skills training needs must be identified and designed to purpose-fit these programs
Through our separate company Learning Systems Analysis, we apply systematic procedures to the definition of training and training support requirements for major and minor capital projects. We use modern theories and principles of instructional design.
We employ industry best-practice to instructional design and the investigation of new and emerging training technologies. Virtual and constructive simulations are an important focus of our approach, as well as employing proprietary training system modelling tools.
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