Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd

Frazer-Nash Consultancy provides expert support for rail clients, helping them to gain a commercial and technical advantage.

The RISQS-accredited firm mitigates risk, makes technology more viable, and reduces project costs, ensuring that clients thrive in challenging conditions.

Frazer-Nash Consultancy’s team specialises in addressing these challenges – whether that means guaranteeing the safety critical systems, managing demanding engineering change programmes, or applying digital and AI techniques to gain insights from data.

With an innovative, whole systems approach, Frazer-Nash Consultancy specialises in rail infrastructure, rolling stock, strategic advisory, digital engineering, and technology development.

Rolling stock

Support for train operators, manufacturers and owners, and equipment suppliers.

Services include structural design and analysis, mechanical systems design and analysis, electrical systems design and analysis, and systems, safety, and supportability engineering.

Rail infrastructure

Infrastructure project support that reduces risk and boosts performance.

Skills and services include leading edge data analytics and decision making, advanced design and analysis of mechanical systems, assurance of cyber, autonomous and traditional engineered systems, the planning and optimisation of maintenance, and much more.

Government

Working on behalf of the UK Government, Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd supports a range of rail projects.

Services and skills include innovation and concept design, engineering project management, new train specification, whole-life costing, development of analytical and/or bespoke software, method development and research, and more.

Train operation

Providing franchise bid support and helping organisations to operate more efficiently.

Skills and services include model generation and review, modelling approach and lifecycle management, method research and development, and development of bespoke software.

Decision support

Developing bespoke models that help clients to improve their decision-making.

Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd helped London Underground to establish the root cause of its low fleet availability issues, before introducing a new maintenance regime to address the problem.

London Underground estimated that the benefits of this new regime would be around £1.5 million per year.