SIEMENS Mobility South Africa

Automated Data Driven Processes For Railway Operations Make Sense For Depots And Fleet Management

In any industry, the amount of data that is now available from the tiniest component through to fully integrated systems is literally insane! As an example, rail vehicles today can send between 1 and 4 billion data points per year. The real power, however, is what can be done with the data and ensuring that the information gained from the data adds value as well as a return on investment.

For the rail sector, the ability to monitor, analyse and predict is the key to a high system availability, predictive maintenance and overall operational cost reductions.

This is exactly the outcome offered by Siemens Mobility through their Railigent Application Suite for best-in-class rail applications. Railigent makes intelligent use of rail data to create added value, empowering operators with understandable data that generates valuable information, so operators are able to get more out of their systems.

“Railigent lets you connect your machines and physical infrastructure to the digital world, to harness big data from billions of intelligent devices, enabling you to uncover transformational insights across your entire business.”

This application suite from Siemens Mobility enables operators to intelligently use rail data, optimize their maintenance and operations, and guarantee hundred-percent availability. Cooperation with partner companies and the integration of partner applications, Siemens provides customers with comprehensive asset management of their vehicle fleets and rail infrastructures. “This reduces lifecycle costs, unplanned downtime and improves overall maintenance aspects of the fleet, streamlining processes to add additional value through efficiencies on the shop floor through to administration and procurement,” notes Bekker.

Siemens Mobility has already integrated applications from seventeen partners, including SKF GmbH, VOITH GmbH & Co. KGaA, Strukton Rail b.v., and voestalpine Signaling Zeltweg GmbH, among others.

All of these companies have specialized competencies for the digitalized condition monitoring of vehicle components and rail infrastructure. Railigent brings it all together as one point of contact, one dashboard to efficiently manage the fleet and the depot across a region and country.

Siemens Mobility is one of the world’s leading companies in the field of rail infrastructure and digitalization.

Connect with:

Ivan Bekker

Business Development for Siemens Mobility.

Responsible for Anglo African countries

Patrick Moodley

Head of Sales - Siemens Mobility Pty Ltd