An economical maintenance concept for rail vehicles: Condition-Based Maintenance

The safe, reliable and fast transport of people and goods is becoming increasingly important as a building block of future-proof, sustainable mobility. A perfect maintenance condition of components, aggregates and technical systems is a central requirement.

Operators of rail vehicles and rail infrastructure are faced with the challenge of making operations and maintenance as economically tight as possible. Rigid maintenance intervals often stand in the way of this goal. They may cause unnecessary costs and affect the availability of vehicles and infrastructure.

We solve this conflict of goals for you. Our condition-based maintenance concept adapts the maintenance intervals of your rail vehicles and systems to the actual load. You benefit from high availability, predictable maintenance scheduling and needs-based costs.

With our many years of experience in condition monitoring, machine diagnostics and the use of high-quality sensor technology and specially developed software and data evaluation methods, we are your competent partner in terms of condition-based maintenance for rail vehicles.

Ask our experts now for an individual offer for your Condition-Based Maintenance concept.

From our many years of cooperation with rail transport companies, we know that maintenance professionals in workshops are very familiar with technical weaknesses in their fleets. They just do not know when a maintenance or repair event will occur. We close this gap with our measurement processes.

Our condition monitoring systems enable the reliable monitoring of vehicle components that are relevant for safety and availability. Our experts use these systems to monitor all relevant components, aggregates and technical systems of your rail vehicles or infrastructure. This gives you enough time to react to developing damage with efficient countermeasures and avoid expensive failures. You are no longer surprised by damage and the need for repairs, can optimally plan maintenance and inspections into the operational process and prevent costly consequential damage.

The concept of condition-based maintenance goes one step further: Through intelligent use of existing data or additional sensors, we record the actual loads, mileages and wear-and-tear in real time. Maintenance only has to be carried out when defined parameters are reached or exceeded. In this way, you can exhaust the maintenance intervals for specific vehicles. This means that no remaining service life of the monitored components is wasted. Instead, on the basis of our concept, you set the service and maintenance periods as close as possible to the maximum service life of the respective parts, systems or vehicles. In this way, we help you to protect your capital-intensive investments and optimize operating and maintenance costs.

Important: Our condition-based maintenance concepts, which are individually created for you, have been proven to ensure at least the same reliability as the manufacturer's maintenance intervals. By deviating from these intervals, you do not violate any obligations. This is confirmed by our own accompanying measurements and regulatory approvals. As a partner of TÜV Rheinland, you benefit from comprehensive technical and regulatory support.

Our condition-based maintenance concepts can be applied to a wide range of areas, from the monitoring and diagnosis of components in trains and rail vehicles to switches, overhead lines, and escalators.

They can be flexibly and quickly adapted to the individual needs of your rail vehicles. Based on your individual requirements, we develop a tailor-made concept together with you and open up a wide range of optimization opportunities through Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM):

• Maintenance – CBM allows you to react flexibly to condition-dependent requirements in maintenance.
• Reliability – CBM warns you early of possible technical malfunctions and thus reduces downtime.
• Availability – Continuous monitoring increases the availability of the fleet.
• Costs – CBM supports a long-term reduction in costs through optimized maintenance intervals.
• Safety – CBM measuring systems provide early warning of critical events and enhance safety.

Our Condition-Based Maintenance professionals combine more than 20 years of experience in condition monitoring and machine diagnostics with in-depth industry knowledge in all areas of rail transport. With us, you work directly with experienced specialists who understand the rail sector. Take advantage of the know-how of our experts. In addition, you benefit from highly developed hardware and software, which we evaluate in our diagnostic center. With this combination of expertise, hardware, software, and diagnostics capability, we are a strong partner for condition monitoring and condition-based maintenance.

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