Testing Equipment for the Brake System’s
Pneumatic Panel
Manuel Simões Freire Domingues was awarded the Second Place, ex aequo, in EMEF’s 2006 Innovation & Development Awards.
When a train travels at such high speeds it is of absolute importance that, other than high levels of performance by other components, such as the suspension, the braking system is perfectly operational and responds within the predetermined parameters of efficiency, within normal periods of time and with a level of confidence that is established by constructors, in the same norm universally accepted in the railway world.
Under these conditions it is required that the pneumatic panel, command center and overall system control are all highly reliable in normal working conditions and are also able to maintain that level of reliability throughout the workshop interventions.
The Testing Equipment for the Pneumatic Panel, awarded with the I&D Prize, had as primary targets: the testing, after a Global Repair, of the SIEMENS 5600 complete braking system’s Pneumatic Panel, under real working conditions; the isolated testing of the RLV Valves, which function as pressure multipliers, of the Small B26 Panel which interfaces between the machinist’s orders and the pneumatic panel and the pressure measurement with several levels of regulation.
Benefits for EMEF
Internal cost reduction, which reduce the final costs for customers.
