SKF in cooperation with SJ, the Swedish national rail operator SJ, started to run SKF Insight on a railway vehicle. This pilot will demonstrate the technical and commercial advantages of SKF Insight intelligent bearing technology when retrofitted to the wheelset axlebox assemblies used in passenger rail vehicles.
These advantages include the ability to improve the in-service availability of passenger rail vehicles, while reducing maintenance costs gradually and safely extending wheelset bearing maintenance intervals.
This enables railway engineers to move safely from a reactive or scheduled maintenance approach, where bearings are changed at regular intervals regardless of condition, to a predictive maintenance regime, when bearings are only changed when they have reached a defined level of wear. Other advantages include the ability to minimize in-service incidents and the costs associated with false hot-box detection.
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