Wireless monitoring boosts train maintenance efficiency
SKF Insight is a wireless system that gathers bearing data and transmits it to a remote diagnostics centre, for fast analysis of mechanical problemsGothenburg, Sweden, 15 June 2017: SKF has a developed a wireless condition monitoring system to enable condition based maintenance practices (CBM) that will help rail operators spend their maintenance budgets more effectively.
SKF Insight gives key information on the state of critical wheel-set components. It relies on retrofitting a small advanced, wireless sensor to the wheelset axlebox assembly – which takes just a few minutes for a