Hegenscheidt-MFD a member of the NSH Machine Tool Group introduces approved technique with a new revolutionary concept for the mobile wheelset maintenance as the answer to the escalating costs applicable for providing qualified maintenance.
MOBITURN® is world wide the first and only wheelset reconditioning system that comes to meet the rolling stock.
MOBITURN® has been especially designed for machining profiles of wheel set wheels and brake disc faces in situ or within a bogie detached from vehicle or on single wheel sets.
Task
In the compulsory process of maintaining rail vehicles, the reconditioning of wheel profiles represents a high cost factor. So vehicle maintenance is subject to a permanent process of minimising cost, while still ensuring the required maintenance quality. Improving Fleet operators competitiveness, therefore, requires new concepts for maintenance processes and technology.
Solution
On the basis of proven underfloor wheel lathe technology, Hegenscheidt–MFD has developed the innovative concept of a mobile wheel lathe, comprehensively tested it and brought it to series production readiness.
The result contributes towards improved, demandoriented vehicle maintenance with short rolling-stock downtimes and high rolling- stock availability, for considerably higher economic efficiency in maintenance. In comparison to the development of the first Underfloor wheel lathe in 1959, the development of MOBITURN® represents a quantum leap in wheelset maintenance technology.