The paper is an account of the journey Metro undertook to improve the governance, compliance and risk position associated with the registration, maintenance and through life management of track vehicles registered for use on Metroês rail network. The paper also provides an insight into Metroês previous system, landscape on how other rail networks manage the same process, the need for harmonisation, a review of the IT landscape of comparable systems and the benefits Metro has realised with the introduction of the locally developed SAAS based solution called PlantGUARD