11-06-2017, 10:45 AM
(11-05-2017, 10:01 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: I was reading in the Project Agreement this morning to try and learn more about the testing and commissioning process when I came across this paragraph:
"Guaranteed completion date for issue of Vehicle Final Acceptance Certificates Each of the Vehicles in the Initial Fleet shall achieve a Vehicle Final Acceptance Certificate by January 31, 2017, provided that such date shall be postponed to the extent that any Vehicle Acceptance Testing activities are affected by any delay in achieving OMSF/Test Track Readiness Completion and/or by any failure by Project Co to comply with its obligations in respect of Vehicle Acceptance Testing set out in this Schedule 35 – Vehicles. For planning purposes, Project Co can assume that the first Vehicle will be delivered to the OMSF no earlier than May 1, 2016 and not later than August 15, 2016. Subsequent Vehicles will be delivered at the rate of approximately two per month."
That means that originally they had budgeted 169 days for vehicle acceptance testing (August 14, 2016 to January 31, 2017). So if May 1, 2018 is the target for the start of revenue service then the vehicle acceptance testing on vehicle 14 would have to begin on November 13, 2017 to meet that deadline (provided they need all 169 days).
It also explains what is considered a successful burn-in test:
"The test shall simulate revenue service, to the extent reasonably possible, and include regular cycling of doors, PA announcements, and automatic passenger announcements, PEI operation, radio communication as well as any other feature normally encountered in revenue service. Such simulation may include manual activation of certain features. In the event that the A, B, and C fault‐free continuous 600 km is not achieved the “burn‐in” will be repeated until the requirement is met."
Where the fault types, A, B, C, and D are described as:
"The 600 Km “Burn‐In Test" will be run on each Vehicle prior to final acceptance and shall be free of class A, B, and C failures, as generally defined below; the only permissible fault shall be of class D:
(a) Rescue towing/pushing is required ‐ Failure Mode Category A = Severe vehicle impairment
(b) Out‐of‐service to carhouse ‐ Failure Mode Category B = Vehicle impairment
© In service to end of the line ‐ Failure Mode Category C = Minor vehicle impairment
(d) In service to end of the day ‐ Failure Mode Category D = No vehicle impairment"
Lots of interesting facts in Schedule 35 - Vehicles, 14 - Commissioning, and Schedule 15-2 Article 19 Project Schedule. Like apparently achieving LEED silver status for the OMSF is part of the commissioning process and according to this website the OMSF is a registered project, but not yet certified.
Where does that May 1, 2018 date come from? I thought it was still "Spring, 2018". The last day of Spring is June 21, 2018 ...