Measurement and monitoring for rail systems
Continuous monitoring and doing maintenance exactly when needed is key to optimize asset availability and lifecycle cost. Our automated measurement and monitoring solutions help rail professionals to achieve optimal efficiency — reducing manual inspections and enabling smarter, data-driven maintenance decisions.
Continuous monitoring and doing maintenance exactly when needed is key to optimize asset availability and lifecycle cost. Our automated measurement and monitoring solutions help rail professionals to achieve optimal efficiency — reducing manual inspections and enabling smarter, data-driven maintenance decisions.
Enhance rail safety with Vehicle Equipment Measurement Systems (VEMS)
VEMS provide a range of automated inspection equipment for rail vehicles to determine their serviceability and safety. The VEMS range is a suite of modular measurement solutions installed on or adjacent to the track to provide contactless roll-by checks of vehicle integrity, wheels, brakes, pantographs, and collector shoes. VEMS solutions excel in condition monitoring and provide detailed, objective, and repeatable inspections to support the management of maintenance activities. By detecting critical equipment conditions, they help increase operational safety and protect your valuable assets. The systems are supported by a comprehensive data management system (DMS), including a measurement database and facilities for analyzing, viewing, and exporting measured data – along with tools to connect this data to Railigent X or to your own maintenance solutions via a standard application programming interface (API).
The different vehicle equipment measurement modules
Whether you’re planning a new fleet or optimizing the lifetime maintenance costs of an existing fleet, the VEMS modular design ensures that you achieve a fast return on invest (ROI) on your maintenance equipment investment. Any VEMS installation can include one or more of the following field-proven vehicle measurement modules customized to meet your operational needs. All VEMS products are supported by the global service and spare part network of Siemens Mobility Rail Services, ensuring that your investment is always hard at work.
Your benefits from automated vehicle inspection products
- Increased availability of rolling stock
- Cost savings because automatic vehicle inspection almost fully replaces the manual inspection of rail components
- Improved safety thanks to more consistent measurements and component integrity assessments
- Superior planning through comprehensive data analyses
- Optimized lifespan of components until they reach their technical wear limit
Railigent X – the Mobility Application Suite for digital services
Railigent X covers the complete path, from asset data collection, data processing, and auxiliary data access to generating insights and sharing the results, all in an integrated ecosystem. For greater reliability and availability, a longer asset life, and increased maintenance and operational efficiency of all components.
References
Rail Service Center Dortmund-Eving, Germany
- Optimized life span until the technical wear limit
- Improved safety thanks to more consistent measurements and component integrity assessments
- Cost savings with support for manual measurement of relevant components
Hornsey, Three Bridges, United Kingdom
- Optimized fleet availability to 95% through full-service maintenance of 115 trains
- Improved safety and reliability by deploying automated vehicle inspection systems to replace manual measurements
- Achieved cost savings and reduced delays by obtaining approval to rely solely on automated data for component assessments, enabling extended overhaul periods