Assessment & Expert Witness
Independent technical review and assessment
Reviewing documents, designs, modifications and technical solutions independently and assessing them in their system context.
Does this match your situation?
Evidence that also holds in the system context.
Technical evidence only holds if assumptions, interfaces and effects fit together. OSK-Consult reviews documents and solutions with technology, operations and the rule book in view.
- Are assumptions and evidence consistent in themselves?
- What effect does a modification have on the overall system?
- Are the delivery and service scopes described completely?
Scope of services
What OSK-Consult takes on.
The individual elements are agreed to suit the question at hand.
- Review of technical documentation, calculations and design concepts
- Assessment of designs, conversions and engineering changes
- Condition assessments and technical acceptance within the agreed scope
- Review of maintenance measures and delivery scopes
- Assessment of safe integration into the railway system
- Interface review between vehicle and infrastructure
- Support during technical trials and demonstration of compliance
Working together
From the question to the findings.
Agree the question
Define the subject of the review, the basis of assessment and the scope.
Carry out the work
Examine documentation and technical interfaces for consistency and risk.
Explain the findings
Compile the findings, the outstanding evidence and anything still to be resolved.
This covers a defined subject of review. Ongoing technical support across several project stages belongs under the owner’s engineer role.
In control-command and signalling, OSK-Consult supports conceptual questions and the interfaces with the overall system. Detailed engineering is handled by specialists from the network.
Technical context
Your contact
Hands-on railway experience and work on national and international projects form the background to the technical judgement.
Career and networkThe first step
Tell us what you are dealing with.
Describe what is to be reviewed, the project stage and the intended use. Existing drawings, calculations and evidence form the basis for agreeing the scope.