Rail maintenance technicentre
In a rail maintenance technicentre, every cycle recognised by its vibration
Washing machines and test benches at a technicentre
- 3cycle types recognised
- Vibrationthe only signature read
- LTE-Mno access to the site network
The scope
What is measured
- Sector
- Rail
- Instrumented machine
- Washing machines and test benches at a technicentre
- Measured quantities
- Vibration of machines and test benches
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Air quality
- Detected events
- Cycle under way: washing, servicing or draining
- Cycle count and duration
- Missed draining
- Achieved result
Each cycle type is recognised by its vibration signature alone, with no machine wiring. What the measurement asked of the technicentre’s IT network: 0 access requested. The unit reports over LTE-M, on its own SIM card.
The deployment
Control points
Equipment : Machines and test benches
What is measured : The Sybox fitted on the equipment, with no connection to the machine.
What it showed : Each cycle is counted and timed from its vibration signature.
Equipment : Workshop conditions
What is measured : The Sybox’s built-in sensors.
What it showed : Workshop conditions put each cycle in context.
Actual machine utilisation used to be unknown: each cycle is now recognised by its vibration signature alone.
Reading still to come
This deployment has no published figures yet: cycles per day, actual machine utilisation, missed drainings caught. The commissioning date and the observation period are missing too.
Those values exist on the customer’s side and must be approved by them before publication. This site publishes no gain figure without a source; the panel will stay as it is until then.
In operation
What it changed
- Actual utilisation is read, cycle by cycleWith no manual entry: what used to be unknown can now be looked up.
- A missed draining triggers an alertThe omission no longer waits to be found: the team is told.
At the technicentre, the actual utilisation of the washing machines and test benches was unknown: how many cycles run, for how long, and which ones.
The installation needed no wiring into the machines and no access to the site IT network: the Sybox sends its readings over the cellular network.