Schaeffler + Swiss Federal Railways (SBB): Significant progress with the digitalization of its fleet
In partnership with Schaeffler, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has made significant progress with the digitalization of its fleet.
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The basis for the new life cycle management of bearing data is a data matrix code (DMC) on the axlebox bearings that allows data on the bearing history – from production to operation and maintenance – to be retrieved and shared between various companies worldwide.
This creates a lot of benefits:
- Storage of all bearing-related data over the entire life cycle
- End-to-end traceability of all processes
- Predictive maintenance thanks to timely identification of weak points
- Information gain for process and production optimizations
- Enabler for 100% return service within the framework of bearing reconditioning
- Basis for fast, reliable and sustainable action
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