Condition monitoring and Tracking of locomotive system

Railway locomotives consists of tens of different subsystems such as:

• Diesel engines,
• Traction Motors,
• water, oil and fuel pumps,
• Compressors,
• Bogies,
• Chassis and body,
• Control subsystems,
• Brakes and its control subsystem,
• Suspension subsystem
• And so on.

Although these subsystems are different in terms of their job, design, construction and performance, but since they are all parts of a signle system, are dependent. Failure of one subsystem might affect the operation of others and change of operational features in one, might reveal a change in other subsystem.

Using a comprehensive condition monitoring system, will help to detect and identify most of failures in the locomotive, in a lower cost, higher performance and maximum failure coverage.

This can help increase reliability, improve uptime, increase safety, and reduce maintenance and repair costs.

Some other capabilities of a loco monitoring and tracking system

• Detection and identification of failures in locomotive subsystems
• Predicting the occurrence of failure
• Locomotive tracking in the network
• Reduction of train stop times in the repair department
• Reduction of maintenance and repair costs
• Detection of electrical and mechanical failures
• ….