Vladimir Pustovoy noted that the growth of the traction rolling stock reliability on the Eastern Range is now a priority for LocoTech. For this purpose a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of the repair with the establishment of a single centre of responsibility (JCR) between overhauls is implemented. 

Currently, two responsibility centres are created - "Khabarovsk” и “Irkutsk”. "Khabarovsk” JCR will consist of Ussuriysk locomotive repair factory and service locomotive depots Sibirtsevo, Amurskoe, Tynda-Severnaya, Chernyshevsk and Ziminskoe. "Irkutsk” JCR will include Ulan-Ude locomotive and car repair factory and depot Bogotol-Sibirsky, Karasuk, Dalnevostochnoe, Chita, Nizhne-Udinskoe, Kansk-Ilansky. 

Within JCR the design and engineering, quality and resource management units will be concentrated: technological preparation of production and development of production systems; material and technical support; preparation and training of personnel. JCR helps to conduct ongoing monitoring of the locomotives operational parameters and provides integrated quality system Factory-Depot. 

The objectives of the centres are to increase the line mileage of locomotives, reduction of downtimes for planned repairs of locomotives and the number of unplanned repairs and, as a consequence, reduction of the service costs.

“Creation of joint centres of responsibility will help us increase our key performance indicator - technical readiness factor. We set ourselves a task to increase TRF in 2017-2018 up to 0.96. Thus, we can significantly enhance the performance of the locomotive fleet of the Russian railways,” said V. Pustovoy.