When Software Goes Wrong - Digital Asset Integrity on the Railway

In this episode Dr Emma Taylor talks about the effect that the increasing number of digital components will have on the railway.  How the interaction of digital applications will cross the dividing line between rolling stock assets and infrastructure assets.  How software and cyber-security specialists will need to become team members, and how people will have to learn that it's okay to say 'we don't know'.

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Topics in this episode include:

• Dr Emma Taylor introductory biography [1:20]
• How introducing digital technologies to the railway will effect the interface between rolling stock and infrastructure [3:38]
• LHSBR priority areas for rolling stock and infrastructure make clear the importance of digital competencies [4:40]
• About the Asset Integrity Group and its work [5:17]
• What keeps your audience (asset managers) awake at night? [5:58]
• The need to describe whole systems as more than just their physical components [7:10]
• Understanding what could go wrong and why; and how the way we work together can improve that understanding [8:18]
• The integrity of information and shared data, and the need to fill the gaps [9:45]
• The key messages for asset integrity groups [11:23]
• The need to include new experience and knowledge around the digital parts of the railway [13:40]
• The need for us all to be able to say we don't know [17:01]

Resources mentioned in this episode include:

• The Asset Integrity Group 

In LHSBR:

• Rolling Stock Asset Integrity
• Infrastructure Asset Integrity.

Blogs:

• Asset integrity – let's keep listening (Emma Taylor)
• Asset integrity – eyes everywhere (Catherine Baker)
• Asset integrity – it’s not all in the data (Greg Morse)
• Asset Integrity – Lessons from Hatfield (George Bearfield).