Expanding the scope of condition monitoring tools

One of the world’s largest railway trade magazines publishes a long interview with Railway Metrics and Dynamics CEO Jan Lindqvist in its February issue.
”The magazine has really managed to identify the essence of our company – our unique collective knowledge of and great love for the railway,” Jan Lindqvist comments.

In the latest issue of the reputable trade magazine Railway Gazette, our CEO Jan Lindqvist is interviewed on the topic “Fleet Management Technology”. In the interview, which is in English, he tells the story of the company and how Railway Metrics and Dynamics AB (RMD) has evolved into a unique company that develops and sells a system platform for real-time analysis and monitoring of transport and infrastructure.

”The key point about what our company does is that we are not just fitting sensors and harvesting huge amounts of data — we have people around us that truly understand wheel-rail dynamics and can see an anomaly and understand the possible causes. That’s railway domain knowledge. We’ve tried to collect it within our business,” says Jan Lindqvist in the interview.

A unique system solution

Asked how RMD’s solution differs from its competitors, Lindqvist says in the interview that he knows of “no other solution that can monitor the entire railway system, including the infrastructure and the behaviour of individual vehicles from a single measuring device”.

RMD has been relatively quick to develop solutions for monitoring fixed infrastructure, such as rails and overhead lines.

”Thanks to our contract with the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) in an innovation tender, we have the opportunity to work with a completely new customer category for us and a globally scalable business, i.e. fixed infrastructure monitoring,” says Jan Lindqvist.

”This tender allows us to scale the business in this segment faster than expected,” Jan Lindqvist continues.

The February issue of Railway Gazette International is only available to subscribers, but you can read the RMD article as a PDF file here.