InnoTrans 2024: Innovative Mobility Solutions from ZF for Trains and Buses.

Today, ZF railway technology is a trailblazer in the use of digital technologies for mobility applications.

New order for connect@rail: DB InfraGO AG uses the condition monitoring system for 711.1-series vehicles.

DB InfraGO equips ten 711.1-series vehicles with ZF condition monitoring system.

New function extends connect@rail condition monitoring system with infrastructure monitoring.

Reliability, driving comfort, fast availability. This was the main criteria the City of Hangzhou required for the new transmissions that were to be part of the new “Airlink” metro line project to the city airport. After careful consideration, ZF was awarded the contract with the newly developed EcoMet model range. Thanks to ZF technology, several hundred million passengers per year will reach their destination reliably and comfortably as of mid-2022 at the latest.

In a new joint project, ZF and DB Systemtechnik combine existing competencies to increase efficiency in the monitoring of critical infrastructure. Their digital monitoring solution detects potential rail deficiencies at an early stage. This enables predictive and flexible planning of maintenance work, thus reducing unnecessary expenses, preventing delays and breakdowns, and offering a real added value in terms of safety and comfort. A test vehicle will try out the system during an extensive real use application in the fall.

Since the end of 2020, ZF's "connect@rail" condition monitoring system has been used in regular operation with the Austrian transport network Graz Linien.