• Research and Product Development
• Customised product adaptation
• Rapid prototyping - rapid tooling
• Assay and simulation
• Quality and Environmental Management

Research and Product Development

Within the framework of our research and product development activities we carry out the following activities, among other things:

• stress and strain analysis by means of FEM calculation on the components of the rail fastening system
• examination of the vibration properties of the system components and the entire system
• laboratory simulation of the operating loads for the determination of the long-time behaviour of the systems
• analysis of the ageing behaviour of dynamically loaded components
• analysis of the elasticity properties of dynamically loaded components
• examination of the effects of environmental influences on the operating behaviour
• examination of the sonic properties - air-borne and structure-borne sound (shocks and vibrations) - of the rail fastening systems
• examination of the electrical insulation properties of the systems
• development of special rail fastening systems and sound proofing elements (rail web damping) for the reduction of noise and vibrations
• development of rail fastening elements for new ballastless railway tracks (fixed track)
• development of rail fastening systems for switches
• performance of sound measurements in tracks (in situ)
• performance of stress and movement measurements in tracks (in situ)
• Performance of acoustic calculations

These activities are carried out mainly in our own development offices or laboratories and with our own mobile measuring instruments. In addition, we closely co-operate with renowned universities, institutes, and engineering offices:

University:

• Technical University of Berlin (Germany) - Institute of Road and Rail Traffic
• Technical University of Dresden (Germany) - Institute of Traffic Route Construction
• Technical University of Graz (Austria) - Institute of Rail Traffic and Public Transport
• Technical University of Innsbruck (Austria)
• Technical University of Munich (Germany) - Chair and Testing Institute for Traffic Route Engineering

Institutes:

• AEA Technology Rail, Derby (UK)
• Département Laboratoire d´Essais Électriques SNCF, Paris (France)
• IBU Ingenieurbüro Uderstädt und Partner GbR, Essen (Germany)
• IMB Ingenieurbüro Dr. Müller-Boruttau, Inning (Germany)
• Japan RTRI (Railway Technical Research Institute)
• Materials Testing Laboratory of North Rhine Westfalia (MPA), Dortmund (Germany)
• Müller BBM GmbH, Planneg bei München (Germany)
• Research and Technology Centre FTZ of DB AG (Germany)
• RDSO (Research Development Standard Organisation), India
• Bodycote Montreal
• TTCI Pueblo
• and others