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PROGRAMME: Railway Operator Challenge
Applying
automotive
principles to
the railway
PROBLEM STATEMENT: We need to engage
the train operating companies with the supply
chain and respond to their current challenges.
SOLUTION: This project is about applying
automotive electronic principles and systems
to railway rolling stock to achieve improved
operational performance.
The rail industry uses bespoke and often
incompatible systems on trains that operate
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in isolation from one another. We will
create a system-wide controller that can
share information between systems to
realise greater functionality, more
redundancy, and higher reliability.
The ‘Processing Node Controller’ will be a
generic platform capable of running a
number of applications in isolation from one
another whilst also sharing information.
Project Details
BENEFITS:
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Ivan Wilson
Embed Limited, Transform Tech.
02476 323250
Ivan.wilson@embeduk.com
ADVANTAGES:
Shared information systems adapted from the
automotive industry will enable suppliers to
deliver more complex applications.
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Solutions Catalogue (projects)
November 6, 2015
DRAFT for consideration
Increased reliability, reduced costs,
improved customer experience
PROJECTED IMPLEMENTATION
To TRL 6 by late 2016
BENEFICIARIES:
TOCs, passengers
KEYCHALLENGES:
Adapting it to the rail environment,
route to market
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PROGRAMME: Railway Operator Challenge
Automated
underframe
examination
by video
PROBLEM STATEMENT: We need to engage
the train operating companies with the supply
chain and respond to their current challenges.
SOLUTION: This project will create an
automatic Vehicle Underframe Examination
System (VUES) to detect and report changes in
a moving rail vehicle. This is a continuous
inspection using computer vision techniques.
Specialist cameras and machine vision
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algorithms are used to detect problems such as
overheating components, damaged equipment
and leaks of certain fluids on trains in service.
Trains passing by the VUES system will be
identified and the history of that train recalled.
The system will gather data on the visible
components on the underside of the train using
a combination of cameras, which will be used
to monitor how train components vary in all
conditions.
Project Details
BENEFITS:
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Javier
Gobotix Ltd
01743 387030
Javier@gobotix.co.uk
ADVANTAGES:
VUES is a multiple camera and self-learning
system. The more images and data it gathers, the
more focussed the anomaly identifications will be.
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Solutions Catalogue (projects)
November 6, 2015
DRAFT for consideration
Reduced maintenance costs, reduced
delays
PROJECTED IMPLEMENTATION
To TRL 5 by mid 2017
BENEFICIARIES:
IM, TOCs, train maintainers
KEYCHALLENGES:
Finding a suitable partner for
deployment in rail
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Innovative
wheel
damage
measurement
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PROGRAMME: Railway Operator Challenge
PROBLEM STATEMENT: We need to engage
the train operating companies with the supply
chain and respond to their current challenges.
SOLUTION: The portable measurement
equipment designed by MRX addresses the
need for a fast, repeatable method of
measuring damage (both surface and nearsurface) on railway wheels.
The measurement equipment will reduce
inspection times and optimise wheel turning;
decreasing out-of-service time and increasing
wheelset life.
Management of the recorded data will enable
maintainers to identify problem vehicles or
wheelsets and plan maintenance in advance.
The portable hand held system can measure
sub-surface defects up to 10mm in a wheel
using magnetic flux leakage technology.
Project Details
BENEFITS:
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Stephanie Klecha
MRX Technologies, Derby
1332 226676
SEK@mrxtech.co.uk
ADVANTAGES:
MRX has pioneered surface defect detection on
rails that can be translated to surface defect
detection in wheels.
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Solutions Catalogue (projects)
November 6, 2015
DRAFT for consideration
Reduced cost of maintenance,
increased safety
PROJECTED IMPLEMENTATION
To TRL 8 by late 2016
BENEFICIARIES:
IM, train maintainers
KEYCHALLENGES:
Clear route to market, few challenges
foreseen.
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PROGRAMME: Railway Operator Challenge
An efficient
train exhaust
system
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PROBLEM STATEMENT: We need to engage
the train operating companies with the supply
chain and respond to their current challenges.
This vortex exhaust solution was chosen
because it has proved effective in saving fuel in
automobiles, trucks, and marine vessels that
have diesel engines.
SOLUTION: The Rail Diesel Carbon Efficiency
Exhaust (RADICE) is an exhaust system for 4stroke and 2- stroke diesel trains which would
reduce pressure problems and allow better
combustion and improved exhaust flow.
The vortex exhaust has novel vortex units
which replace conventional mufflers or
silencers and instead of deadening sound with
baffles, use patented technology belonging to
Vortex Exhaust Technology Ltd.
Project Details
BENEFITS:
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Mike Campbell (PM)
Barry Mead (Director)
Vortex Exhaust Technology Ltd
mike.campbell@vortexexhaust
technology.com
ADVANTAGES:
This vortex exhaust reduces the carbon footprint
of diesel train engines, increases engine efficiency
and reduces consumption of diesel fuel.
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Solutions Catalogue (projects)
November 6, 2015
DRAFT for consideration
Reduced fuel costs, reduced
emissions
PROJECTED IMPLEMENTATION
To TRL 4 by mid 2016
BENEFICIARIES:
TOCs, train maintainers, public
KEYCHALLENGES:
Unknown performance on 2-stroke
engines
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