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- Collaborative digital monitoring of mechanical drive trains for rail vehicles
- The shared mission: To allow maintenance intervals to be extended
To coincide with the InnoTrans 2018, Schaeffler and ZF signed the memorandum of understanding for a collaboration between the two companies to create a digital condition monitoring system for mechanical drive trains in the railway sector. From left to right: Dr. Michael Holzapfel, Senior Vice President Business Unit Rail Europe at Schaeffler’s Industrial Division, Dr. Stefan Spindler, CEO Industrial at Schaeffler AG, Dr. Klaus Geißdörfer, Head of Division Industrial Technology at ZF und Eberhard Wilks, Vice President Industrial Technology Rail Drive Systems at ZF.
To coincide with the InnoTrans 2018, Schaeffler and ZF signed the memorandum of understanding for a collaboration between the two companies to create a digital condition monitoring system for mechanical drive trains in the railway sector. The combination of both companies’ expertise will allow a Rail 4.0 solution with significant added value to be created in which the mechanical drive, which is maintained as an independent unit, can be digitally monitored separately right down to its subsystems and components using a single condition monitoring system. The objective is to allow condition-based maintenance measures to be carried out with the aid of operating data analyses and thus extend the maintenance intervals while reducing downtimes.
“Digitalization in industry can only generate added value when collaboration takes place across different companies”, explains Dr. Stefan Spindler, CEO Industrial at Schaeffler AG. “This project represents the expansion of our long-term development partnership with ZF into the railway sector with an Industry 4.0 solution that will make entirely new service concepts possible.”
Dr. Klaus Geißdörfer, head of ZF’s Industrial Technology division, is certain that the market now demands comprehensive and state-of-the-art digital platforms: “The online condition monitoring approach that we are now presenting in cooperation with Schaeffler will help customers to better plan maintenance intervals and continuously optimize the actual loads that occur in the drive train.” Both cooperation partners began taking advantage of the future opportunities offered by Industry 4.0 at an early stage. ZF supplies railway drive systems complete with condition monitoring systems, and Schaeffler enhances these through the addition of wheelset-specific sensors for vibration and temperature according to SIL 2 together with the corresponding data analytics.
The condition monitoring system is to be created using an open platform concept that can be expanded to include additional partners and thus enable further components and even complete bogies to be monitored.
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About Schaeffler
The Schaeffler Group is a global automotive and industrial supplier. Top quality, outstanding technology, and exceptionally innovative spirit form the basis for the continued success of the company. By delivering high-precision components and systems in engine, transmission, and chassis applications, as well as rolling and plain bearing solutions for a large number of industrial applications, the Schaeffler Group is already shaping “Mobility for tomorrow” to a significant degree. The technology company generated sales of approximately EUR 14 billion in 2017. With around 92.000 employees, Schaeffler is one of the world’s largest family companies and, with approximately 170 locations in over 50 countries, has a worldwide network of manufacturing locations, research and development facilities, and sales companies.
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