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Bombardier Transportation launches digital service for predictive maintenance

The BOMBARDIER EBI Sense digital service is a step towards realizing the benefits of digitalization for railway performance.

Bombardier Transportation has launched its new BOMBARDIER EBI Sense digital service for predictive maintenance.

Centered on rail signalling, it embraces Bombardier’s rail management expertise, trendy digital instruments and superior analytics. The service converts asset efficiency knowledge into highly effective insights, enabling infrastructure operators to handle upkeep extra effectively, scale back disruptions and improve railway availability.

President of Rail Management Options at Bombardier Transportation, Richard Hunter, stated: “The launch of our progressive, cloud-native, predictive upkeep service for signalling is a transformative step in the direction of realising the advantages of digitalisation for railway efficiency. Developed by means of a mix of know-how and experience mixed with the most recent thrilling digital enablers, EBI Sense is a real reflection of our dedication to repeatedly innovate and add worth for our prospects throughout their system’s total lifecycle.”

Including to Bombardier’s in depth providers portfolio, EBI Sense is ideally suited to extensively distributed rail methods with a excessive variety of trackside property, akin to level machines and monitor circuits. It brings collectively Internet of Things (IoT) in addition to cloud and machine studying with superior, safe knowledge assortment and analytics to foretell tools failures and schedule upkeep.

Distinctive wi-fi sensors, cloud-native methods and versatile web-based interfaces allow speedy deployment with no disruption to operations. Utilizing machine studying, it robotically improves evaluation by means of expertise and anticipates asset efficiency. As a subscription service, EBI Sense brings simplicity and predictability of prices and, with the end-user in thoughts, intuitive interfaces and studies supply prospects a simplified workflow course of.

Developed by Bombardier’s Rail Management Options’ Providers Crew based mostly in Sweden, EBI Sense provides a brand new dimension to the BOMBARDIER OPTIFLO suite of rail management service options. Bombardier has a protracted historical past of innovation in trendy rail management, from pioneering the primary computer-based interlockings and automatic prepare management methods, to persevering with to advance within the digital area with applied sciences like EBI Sense.