CHALLENGES

Demographic change
and staff shortage

Inadequate measurement
and documentation

Differences in work
and results

Short blocking times

Work safety

Re-repairs

SOLUTION

Robot-assisted, automated maintenance and repair for increase of lay time with less staff and reproducable results

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CONCEPT

    • Modular container design enables high adaptability in a standardized and proven design
    • Track based “box in box” system placed on standard flat wagon
    • Realization: Containers as load on standard flat wagon
      - 20 ft container: Power supply and operator working place
      - 40 ft container: Working space
    • Hybrid power supply: Batterypack and Diesel generator
    • Only 1 operator (=„System observer“)

    TECHNOLOGY

    DEVELOPMENT „FROM RAIL TO SWITCH“

    IAF 2022

    Presentation of world’s first prototype for automated rail defect repair

    Processes:

    scanning

    milling

    preheat

    welding

    grinding

    ROBEL Open House 2023

    Maintenance of switches as next step (More complex geometry, harder materials and larger dimensions for processing)

    Focussed switch elements:

    • Switch frog
    • Wing rail
    • Switch rail

    Focussed processes:

    • Measuring
    • milling
    • welding

    CUSTOMER BENEFITS

    • Continuous, prenventive maintenance and repair approach
    • Reduction of blocking times
    • Significant increase in the laytime of turnouts and avoiding of "re-repairs”
    • Less staff to get people out of the "danger zone“
    • Increasing the reproducibility of work