Konferens: Second International Conference on Industrial Engineering (ICIE-2013), 2013, Surat, Gujarat, India

Cloud Computing is an emerging research area. It can be utilised for acquiring an effective and efficient information logistics. This paper uses cloud-based technology for the establishment of information logistics for railway system which requires information based on data from different data sources (e.g. railway maintenance, railway operation, and railway business data). In order to improve the performance of the maintenance process relevant data from various sources need to be acquired, filtered, fused, integrated, and analysed for decision making and to facilitate for example, diagnostics and prognostics decisions. The process of maintenance information provisioning is highly dependent on an appropriate information logistics. In this paper the authors have tried to study the improvement in the maintenance performance of railway operations in Sweden.