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Fewer failures, more customer satisfaction: smart plastics make railway equipment maintenance easy19/11/2018
Thousands of commuters depend on a punctual rail service. But defective trains are often a hindrance to this. Unhappy customers and economic losses are the consequence. "Digitisation can change this", says Thorsten Mersch, Industry Manager Railway Technology at igus. In order to be part of this digital transformation in rail transportation, the Cologne company develops, intelligent cables and energy chains under the name of "smart plastics", which are monitored in real time and whose service life can therefore be predicted. |