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Salient
is the premier supplier of state-of-the-art wayside
monitoring and failure detection systems to the global
rail industry. By understanding how to extract key information
from complex track/train dynamics, Salient empowers
progressive railroads and transit systems with real-time
information to optimize fleet operations and warn of
potential derailment conditions. With well over a hundred
wayside locations from the Sahara Desert to the Arctic
Circle, Salient satisfies the toughest demands of heavy
haul, light rail, passenger, and mining environments
worldwide.
The rail industry relies on our wayside inspection networks
to decrease the likelihood of derailments from broken
rails, shattered rims, hunting trucks, and overloaded
or imbalanced vehicles. Make no mistake about it.
The cost savings can be dramatic. Salient's IntelliTrack®
technologies increasingly gain global recognition and
adoption for a very simple reason: they are value-added
solutions.
Rail Stress Module (RSM) / StressNet™
- A breakthrough rail health monitoring system that
alerts infrastructure owners to emerging rail break
or track buckle conditions. |
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Wheel Impact Load Detector
- The most widely used system in the world today to
economically manage the targeted removal of defective
wheels from service. |
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Hunting Truck Detector
- Alarms for excessive lateral forces caused by hunting
trucks before they significantly contribute to the rapid
wear of rail and rail cars. |
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Truck Performance Detector
- Alarms for rail cars whose suspension systems are
not tracking properly along curved track due to worn
or defective undercarriages. |
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Automatic Vehicle Overload
& Imbalance Detector
- Alarms for overloaded or imbalanced rail cars at track
speeds with an additional high speed weigh-in-motion
capability. |
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Low Hose Detector- Alarms for low or dragging coupling hoses on rail cars by means of a breakthrough optical sensing approach to minimize false alarms common to mechanically-based systems. |
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Salient's
database management systems provide extensive trend
analysis to proactively identify potential safety problems
and optimize maintenance planning.
Wheel Data Management System
- The premier rail car management utility in use today
to present fleet performance and actionable maintenance
information in a clear and concise form. |
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StressNet™ Data Management
and Applications
- Provides long-term trend analysis of shifts in neutral
rail temperature to reveal track regions increasingly
at risk of rail buckling or pull-aparts. |
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The rail industry recognizes the benefits of proper system-wide lubrication. Analyzing how much lubricant is left on the rail, particularly along the entrance and exits of curves, as well as how effective different lubricants are have long been concerns of wheel/rail interface investigators. Knowing the coefficient of friction at the wheel/rail interface is a critical element of the process. By managing the coefficient, the industry minimizes its cost of operations. For example, if the coefficient is too high, fuel consumption, rail wear, and noise all increase, particularly along curved track. If the coefficient is too low, locomotive traction is compromised, braking distances increase, costly lubricant is wasted, and the environment is unduly impacted.
High Speed TriboRailer®
- A lightweight, automated high speed tribometer that
provides complete system-wide lubrication analysis of
both rails simultaneously with minimal service disruption. |
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Portable Tribometer
- The most effective, user-friendly method in the rail
industry to spot-check the coefficient of friction of
rail/wheel interfaces and validate the quality of rail
lubrication methods. |
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| IntelliTrack's®
value-added solutions bring new technologies and the power
of information to the rail industry, providing quantum leaps
in track and equipment reliability and safety to improve rail
operations. A comprehensive system of software and hardware
solutions built to last in harsh rail environments, IntelliTrack®
technologies are poised to become the Six Sigma standard for
the rail industry, serving as catalysts for the establishment
of system-wide failure detection thresholds. IntelliTrack®
solutions integrate advanced hardware designs with sophisticated
decision-making software tools to help the international rail
industry capture value by safely reducing the distance between
trains in a right of way. |
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