It is becoming increasingly important to make sure that railway vehicles undergo maintenance as a function of their true condition. COMORAN is a system developed by Knorr-Bremse to achieve precisely that as far as bogie components are concerned. Anyone operating trains ought always to have a full picture of the condition of the safety-relevant components of their trains. Knorr-Bremse has joined forces with SKF CMC, the specialist for industrial condition monitoring to develop a system called COMORAN (Condition Monitoring for Railway Applications), which combines the safety-relevant monitoring of bogies with extensive condition monitoring. The combination of these two functions provides the input for performing condition-based maintenance of bogie components, ensuring that trains are only taken into maintenance depots when components are genuinely in need of maintenance.
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