FY2017 PROPOSED BUDGET

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Proposed FY2017 Budget
Chapter 3
Independence Day and Concert for Valor events. Finally, SMNT/POWR maintained a
2,682,032 Mean Distance Between Delay for CY2014.
• DGMO Admin - The Silver Line opened in July 2014, adding five new stations and providing
service to a total of 28 stations. Worked with SMNT Power to purchase and install 50
Multipurpose Relays on existing traction power line-ups. Eight (8) 7000 Series railcars were
delivered to WMATA and began design qualification tests. Rail Fleet Reliability reached a 10-
year high in 2014 as maintenance efforts enabled the deployment of 5.0 percent more railcars
for Silver Line service. Escalator availability for CY2014 was 93.1 percent, the best delivered
since 2010, as technicians repaired unexpected breakdowns more quickly than in prior years.
• SCES - Inventory Planning: Reduce no demands/obsolete inventory by $1.0 million within a
3-month time period (for SMNT). Achieved and maintained a Stock out rate of 4.6 percent,
exceeding the Goal of 5.0 percent for all external receiving locations. Processed over 400 new
items for the 7K project and supported the storeroom optimization program by reviewing over
6,000 of no demand items.
• Warehousing and Logistics: Receipted for a total 5,290 line items. Exceeded
surplus and obsolete goal by 20.0 percent at $3.3 million in revenue. Automated
surplus and obsolete administration by putting auctions on-line. Achieved a 100
percent next day delivery on available material to Satellite Storerooms.
• Business and Process: The SCES business systems team implemented several new
processes around the new engineering tool, Windchill, workflows for item
management were created for each operation department. We began work with all
of the operations groups to induct assets, maintain parts for those assets, and built
a repository for the technical specs, drawings, and salient characteristics. We then
facilitated qualification and data cleanup of over 8,000 parts in 2014.
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