"With a fleet of almost 500 trams travelling more than 22.5 million kilometers each year, the maintenance of rolling stock is core to Yarra Trams."

The solution will go live in November this year and will be deployed in three phases, covering rolling stock, infrastructure and deployment of the Maximo Service Desk into the operations centre.MRO country manager Adrian Hocking said the system would ensure consistency across the company's maintenance and servicing activities and will eliminate reliance on manual paper-based systems and providing accurate records for asset performance evaluation purposes.