Spare parts and repair for rail systems

No matter what, no matter when: Our spare part services can provide all the spare parts your rail specialists need. With Easy Spares®, we ensure a fast, easy, and reliable supply to give you 100% system availability. Whether you want new, repaired or refurbished parts, MoBase® is the place to go. Do you require unique or rarely needed parts? Then check out Easy Sparovation Part® for improved 3D-printed parts. Our Easy obsolescence solutions ensure optimal availability over entire lifecycles. If you’re looking for an alternative to replacement, our Easy component and part repair & overhaul offering has the answers.

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Spare part solutions Increasing cost pressure makes large spare part inventories uneconomical. Spare part services optimize inventories and procurement, reduce costs, and increase system availability up to 100%. Stock your strategic parts but let us identify and deliver the rest – quickly and easily.

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Simple and effective spare part solutions for optimized stocking

We offer optimal spare part solutions for every requirement. Our Easy Spares concept enables us to “stock every part that it makes sense to stock” and provide individual options for all other necessary parts.

Your benefits:

Delivery of the predefined spare parts within the EU – usually on the next workday
Spare parts on demand with or without contract
Optimized delivery time thanks to automated processes and central storage
Short reaction time – even for materials with a long production lead time
Minimization of your inventory (capital commitment/storage volume)
The warranty period starts when the spare parts are needed
Easy Spares Agreement with availability guarantee; individual spare part scope possible

Easy Spares Next Generation Rail spare parts identified in 10 seconds, ordered in 3 minutes, and delivered in 24 hours. For a long time, this was a vision, now it’s reality. The service products behind this holistic process have assembled like the pieces of a puzzle over the years, and now our customers are benefiting from a seamless, digital supply of railway spare parts. This is our Easy Spares Next Generation®.

How Easy Spares Next Generation works in detail

Identification of railway spare parts via Easy Spares IDea app

Spare part identification in 10 seconds

Increase your system and fleet availability with mobility-critical rail spare parts thanks to automatic, fast, and reliable spare part identification by simply taking a photo or scanning a label code – Easy Spares IDea.

Ordering process for railway spare parts

Spare part ordering in 3 minutes

With Easy Spares, the range of spare parts is defined and access granted to the ordering platform. MoBase, the successor of Easy Spares Marketplace, allows direct ordering of identified components 24/7. And Easy Sparovation Part, the Siemens 3D-print-on-demand service, improves on original parts and guarantees 100% system availability over the entire lifecycle of one-off, customized replacements.

Guaranteed delivery within 24 hours

130,000 Siemens and third-party railway spare parts are available online. 15,000 are in stock and deliverable within 24 hours in Europe and within 48 hours worldwide – cutting your costs and saving space by replacing in-house inventories with guaranteed availability and immediate delivery.

MoBase – order your railway spare parts online

MoBase is a one-stop-shop to meet all the material needs of the rail industry. For rail vehicles and rail infrastructure, you can order everything – from a complete locomotive, tools, and workshop equipment and services like on-site and virtual trainings to the smallest screw. The seamless integration of different sellers under one roof, combined with our reliable spare part services, makes it possible to offer a very wide range of products, save time and support 100% system availability.

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Your benefits with Easy Spares Next Generation

Reduced overall costs

Automatic rail spare part identification prevents you from ordering the wrong part while streamlining the logistics process. Smaller in-house inventories and attractive pricing and warranty conditions cut costs even more.

Optimized order processes for rail spare parts

Optimized processes

24/7 ordering with real-time details on spare part availability and delivery via MoBase – and the efficient, fully automated processing and accounting from a single site for both Siemens and third-party railway spare parts optimizes your procurement.

Fast and guaranteed supply

Easy Sparovation Part, the additive manufacturing of rail spare parts, allows replacements to be customized and original parts improved – while ensuring availability and fast delivery.

High performance with Easy Spares Next Generation

Fast, simple, and reliable delivery: Easy Spares Next Generation brings to rail operations what we've already been enjoying in our everyday lives online.

Saving time increases efficiency – and Easy Spares Next Generation works on that principle. Our customers not only save time, they also cut costs and can guarantee optimal, 100% system availability.

Using Easy Spares IDea, customers can identify the right part within 10 seconds and order it online at our MoBase mobility marketplace. Within the next workday, the required rail spare part is delivered in Europe and within 48 hours worldwide.

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Easy Spares – complete spare part logistics with delivery guarantee

Guaranteed availability instead of expensive safety reserves: With complete spare part logistics by Siemens Mobility Rail Services, you can minimize the amount of capital tied up in parts, and use 24/7 online ordering to ensure a fast, guaranteed supply of defined spare parts within one working day in Europe, and even faster if necessary.

Just-in-time supply and guaranteed availability of defined spare parts
24/7 online ordering from the MoBase
One-stop shopping for all your rail spare part needs

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Easy Sparovation Part – additive manufacture of spare parts

With Easy Sparovation Part, we 3D-print the spare parts you need, based on reliable and certified quality standards and with no tools required. Additive manufacturing opens up new potentials for replacing and modernizing your parts and improving your vehicles with new components that are lighter and stronger than ever before.

Improved components with optional design optimization
Reduction of delivery time
Reduction of non-recurring costs
Solutions for obsolete components

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Spare part services with obsolescence management

Easy obsolescence solutions – secure spare parts supply for the entire lifecycle

Prevent downtime and interruptions due to obsolescence, while avoiding unnecessary costs. We offer you three intertwined solutions for obsolescence management in line with IEC standard 62402 to ensure maximum spare parts availability over the entire lifecycle of your rail vehicle and rail infrastructure:

Obsolescence notice
Obsolescence solution
Obsolescence management & monitoring

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Easy Spares IDea – identify and order parts via app

Simplify and accelerate your spare part orders in the future: Easy Spares IDea brings spare part identification, stock level queries and ordering together in a single app. This can save you enormous processing costs.

Photograph the defective part on a smartphone
Automatic identification with real-time image analysis
Automatic stock level query; app shows part availability

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Easy component and part repair & overhaul – the alternative to new spare parts

We ensure that your spare parts and components are repaired to the highest quality standards and are quickly ready for operation again. Our Easy Repair solution cuts time and costs to a minimum.

33 repair shops in 15 countries
Repairs for electrical and mechanical rail spare parts and components by Siemens Mobility repair experts
Over ten years of experience
Manufacturer´s knowledge

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References Discover how a new way of manufacturing is changing the supply of spare parts for railway vehicles in practice: Additive manufacturing is already improving rail operations, maintenance, and spare part procurement with 3D-printed train spares and spare parts for trams. You can read about this in the following spare part service references.

Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG

3rd-party trains

3D-printed train fairing parts for a third-party vehicle

Headlight beam and seat shell cover for a train of the Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe (KVB) from a different vehicle manufacturer
Flexible and fast manufacturing despite the lack of drawings and 3D models
Great freedom of design, on-demand availability, and reduced storage thanks to additive manufacturing

3D-printed train spare part: rail vehicle brake

Hamburger Hochbahn

Metro trains

Uncompromised brake safety, printed in 3D

The first 3D-printed railway spare part in operation – with the same functionality as the conventional component
Zero storage cost for these train parts, thanks to their availability in virtual storage
High reliability due to certified and reliable quality standards for additive manufacturing at Siemens Mobility

Deutsche Bahn AG

High-speed trains

Improved train spares at lower costs

The first 3D-printed motor terminal box for high-speed trains, manufactured using a selective laser melt process
Lower storage, tool and prototype costs than for the conventional production of very small runs
3D-printed components have higher quality than conventionally made originals

Ulm/Neu-Ulm city services

Combino trams

Optimized armrest for trams on demand

3D-print manufacturing of ten driver-seat armrests for Combino trams – fast, easy and cost-effective
Extended functionality due to integration of switch for setting points – ergonomically optimized design with thumb rest
Addition of desired switch function at no added cost, due to powder-bed melt process

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MoBase

Fast procurement: Order rail spare parts 24/7

Find the right material in the right place at the right time on MoBase, our mobility marketplace for fast procurement of rail spare parts for all kinds of rolling stock and rail infrastructure. Use our powerful product search to find the parts you need quickly and easily. Discover a new digital shopping experience, online 24/7 from any place in the world – with live availability for convenient ordering. You’ll find a complete range of suppliers under one roof so you can quickly find the right rail spare parts – and all the information you need. MoBase – more than a spare part warehouse.

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Spare parts and repair for rail systems

Easy Spares

MoBase

Easy Sparovation Part – improved 3D-printed parts

Easy obsolescence solutions

Easy Spares IDea®

Easy component and part repair & overhaul

Optimal spare part services for railway operations