Solutions for Rolling Stock

Know how your fleet really runs. We measure during regular service and make wear, loads and ride comfort visible. This helps you find causes faster, plan maintenance by actual condition and keep your trains available and your costs under control.

Use Cases

  • Detect wheelset and wheel running faults early: Identify flat spots, out-of-roundness or other conspicuous vibration patterns.
  • Analyze wheel-rail loads: Recognize when and where high forces or unusual loads occur.
  • Monitor ride comfort: Measure shocks and vibrations from the passengers’ point of view and find problematic vehicles or track sections.
  • Separate vehicle and track influences: Link measurements with route, speed and operating state to narrow down the cause of conspicuous behavior.
  • Record shunting and coupling impacts: Document strong impacts, for example to protect vehicles and cargo or to clarify damage.
  • Fleet benchmarking: Compare vehicles of the same type in real operation and identify outliers.
  • Track components over their lifetime: Compare condition development before and after overhauls or component replacement.
  • Validate new components and prototypes: For example, test different wheelsets, bogies or dampers under comparable operating conditions.
  • Refine maintenance intervals: Plan maintenance based on the load and condition development actually measured.
  • Remote diagnostics and secure remote maintenance: Control access to vehicle systems and make technical interventions traceable.

You can do rapid analysis, supervision and alarming with our Insight Cloud Application, or integrate our technology layer into your infrastructure.

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Parametric Insight

Solutions for You

RET Network Insight

RET Network Insight

Rail Intelligence as-a-Service: rapid detection of hotspots and correlations in the wheel-rail system.

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Always-On Railway Intelligence

Always-On Railway Intelligence

Install once. Gain insights whenever you need them. Permanently installed measurement systems collect physical data during regular operation, ready for your next technical question.

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Real-Time Monitoring & Control

Real-Time Monitoring & Control

Measure. Detect. Act. In real time. Autonomous onboard controllers react directly on the vehicle as soon as defined physical conditions occur.

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BERNMOBIL: AI-Controlled Rail Head Conditioning
Case study

BERNMOBIL: AI-Controlled Rail Head Conditioning

Together with BERNMOBIL, PROSE and Substring, Parametric tested AI-controlled rail head conditioning in a project co-funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Transport (FOT).

With this system based on Parametric technology, BERNMOBIL achieved a noise reduction of more than 98%. In a second step, the extension of service life is now calculated more precisely; the simulation shows more than 10%. In addition, a large amount of lubricant is saved, which benefits sustainability.

Parametric supplied the entire technology layer including sensors, edge systems and communication. The RET4000 devices send the captured data with exact position and telemetry data directly to the cloud.

The next goal is to replace the fixed lubrication systems with mobile ones on the fleet.

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