Teaching an old dog new tricks: adopting condition-based maintenance
InterviewWhile the demand for available rail infrastructure continues to increase, the shrinking labour force finds itself needing to adapt to new technologies. This brings many new opportunities, but also challenges. Gerrit Nieuwenhuis, Sales Manager at...Read more
What to do what all that data? – Watch the webinar discussion here
In the RailTech webinar ‘what to do with all that data?’, two experts in the field of railway monitoring and data shared their views on current practices and what can be improved to make the...Read more
Intelligent Rail Summit: Poland as playground for new technologies
Poland is laying a key piece of new European rail infrastructure. The billion-euro-CPK plan gives the country a change to be frontrunner in new wayside train monitoring systems, monitoring solutions and asset management programmes. For...Read more
Download the magazine ‘data-driven innovations in rail’
Poland is laying a key piece of new high-speed rail infrastructure in the CPK project, expanding the European network. This opens the door for new wayside train monitoring systems and asset management programmes.Read more
Intelligent Rail Summit reveals a sector primed for data-driven processes and solutions
The Intelligent Rail Summit 2022 wrapped up late on Thursday in Konstanz, Germany. With close to 100 stakeholders in attendance, this year’s edition focussed on the use of data in monitoring and asset management. The...Read more
Intelligent Rail Summit 2022 gets underway
The Intelligent Rail Summit 2022 kicked off earlier on Wednesday with a technical site visit to Winterthur in Switzerland, where voestalpine RailWay Systems has installed an Acoustic Monitoring Sensor system.Read more
Automatic railwagon recognition pioneer Himmelsbach shows no signs of slowing down
German firm Himmelsbach is a pioneer of 25 years in the field of automatic identification, registration and inspection of railway cars. The company’s analysis systems have been deployed in a host of countries, ranging from...Read more
Join the discussion about infrastructure monitoring and maintenance at the Intelligent Rail Summit
There are now less than two weeks to go until the Intelligent Rail Summit, which will be held in Konstanz, Germany. On November 16-17, speakers from operators, infrastructure managers, technology companies and the academia will...Read more
The Intelligent Rail Summit 2022 programme is finalised
There are less than three weeks to go until this year’s Intelligent Rail Summit. With the programme now complete, all signs are green for another successful edition of this important event, which features more than...Read more
Ensuring railway reliability in times of turmoil
The month of November is fast approaching, which means the Intelligent Rail Summit 2022 is just around the corner. The events of the past few months have underscored the strategic importance of railways, and infrastructure...Read more
Short-term renewal savings today can result in cost rises tomorrow
Data-based strategic asset management enables multi-purpose utilisation of data to support decisions at the management level. For example, modelling existing data can lead to high levels of optimisation in current processes and it facilitates answering...Read more
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Asset management, predictive maintenance and improving operations all rely on data. An increasing number of stakeholders have the means to analyse and process this data. But what are some of the strategies for turning this...Read more
Will digitalisation speed up the slow pace of the railway sector?
“We need digitalisation in railways, but it is not the only solution”, says Wim van de Camp, ambassador of the European Year of Rail at the Intelligent Rail Summit, which took place 21-23 of September...Read more