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IBM is the global leader in business transformation through an open hybrid cloud platform and AI, serving clients in more than 170 countries around the world. With 28 consecutive years of patent leadership, IBM is committed to being a responsible innovator and a force for good in the world.

Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications. Our technologies are shaping production and people-related ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous – ensuring a scalable, sustainable future. Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division improves the resilience and sustainability of the world’s critical services and infrastructure. We ensure safe and efficient transportation for millions of travellers by supporting aviation, maritime, rail and road planning and operations, from mapping and maintaining infrastructure to monitoring traffic and services.

Siemens Mobility is a separately managed company of Siemens AG. As a leader in transport solutions for more than 160 years, Siemens Mobility is constantly innovating its portfolio in its core areas of rolling stock, rail automation and electrification, turnkey systems, intelligent traffic systems as well as related services. With digitalization, Siemens Mobility is enabling mobility operators worldwide to make infrastructure intelligent, increase value sustainably over the entire lifecycle, enhance passenger experience and guarantee availability. In fiscal 2017, which ended on September 30, 2017, the former Siemens Mobility Division posted revenue of €8.1 billion and had around 28,400 employees worldwide.

Nomad Digital is a world leading provider of passenger, fleet management and monitoring solutions to the transport industry. It offers a broad solutions portfolio to both train operators and builders that facilitates a significantly enhanced passenger experience with seamless connectivity, real-time journey information and on-board entertainment.

Improved fleet availability and operational efficiencies can also be achieved with real-time monitoring solutions as well as AI and machine learning expertise providing key data insights for operations and maintenance.

As passengers continue to demand seamless connectivity and the other value-adding services that come with it, Nomad Digital continues to drive its solutions with passenger experience and innovation at the forefront.

Nomad Digital is the pioneer of the Intelligent journey – a shared and secure network infrastructure to which all authorised onboard systems and passenger devices may connect.

SKF Insight Rail - Is your maintenance strategy working as hard as possible to keep costs low, keep trains running on time – and keep customers satisfied? At SKF, we can help make sure it is. With our core in the bearing industry we know that there is potential to run longer between maintenance than what is done today. And there are now ways to do it without increasing risk. Our diagnostic and analytic digital tools give you unparalleled understanding of the real-time condition of your rolling stock, while you can call in our expert support with services that range from training, inspection and installation through to refurbishment and remanufacturing. By applying our industry insight, our technology and our specialist services, we can help you drive smarter, more efficient practices right across the maintenance lifecycle.

Nexxiot enables transparency and business process automation for rail freight operators, lessors, shippers, partners and cargo owners.

With a focus on non-powered mobile assets, Nexxiot provides the necessary IoT hardware, connectivity, interfaces and analytics to improve efficiency, accountability and service levels throughout the transportation chain. This is achieved by gathering asset data and transforming it into usable information to support decisions and extract more value from the fleet.

This opens new opportunities to reduce equipment and operational costs and increase revenues by enhancing services to customers and cargo owners. Designed to be zero-maintenance, the devices are quick to install and the information is easy to integrate and use. A service based business model in combination with the dedicated platform and analytics, means Nexxiot is ready to support the rail industries ambitions to play it’s part in the digital supply chain of tomorrow.

voestalpine Railway Systems is the global leader for system solutions in the field of railway infrastructure, offering outstanding products, logistics and services for rails, turnouts, signaling and monitoring applications. A fully integrated material chain and value-adding industry setups beyond steel enable voestalpine to understand the interdependencies of all the track components in order to optimize the performance and life cycle cost of the system.

An international network of companies and their access to customers is the basis for our know-how and ongoing product and process improvements. More than 50 production and sales facilities ensure maximum understanding and knowledge of local conditions and customer demands.

With smart digital solutions voestalpine Railway Systems provides the basis for modern track management concepts to guarantee “Performance on Track®”.

Plasser & Theurer - has influenced the progress in the construction and maintenance of railway tracks more substantially than any other company. As a full-range supplier operating worldwide, the Austrian family business supplies track maintenance machines of almost all kinds and sizes and provides high-quality services over the entire life cycle of the machines. Our success story began with the production of tamping machines that stood out from all other products on the market due to their technical superiority. To this day, Plasser & Theurer tamping machines are the standard in track maintenance. Over decades, new machine models have been added to the machine programme. Today, the machines we offer cover almost all works to be performed when maintaining, laying and renewing railway tracks. In addition to machines for all track gauges in all parts of the world, we offer machines in all output categories meeting our customers’ needs. From a classic machine manufacturer to a modern full-range supplier.

Today, Plasser & Theurer is more than just a machine manufacturer. As a full-range supplier collaborating with 19 partner companies around the world, Plasser & Theurer offers comprehensive after-sales services, covering training, spare parts supply and technical service. The farreaching innovations in mechanised track maintenance not only involve new machine technologies, but also set new standards for the cost-efficient operation of machines. Developed by Plasser & Theurer, the PlasserSmartMaintenance initiative provides digital solutions that ensure greater transparency, connectivity and efficiency for both the maintenance of individual machines and entire machine fleets.

Sustainable quality increases cost-efficiency The contributions we make towards the cost-efficiency and sustainability of the railway system define our success. We set store by quality, innovative technologies and solutions providing the customers with real economic benefits.

As a subsidiary of DB and part of DB E.C.O. Group, infraView is a specialist for software-based infrastructure and vehicle diagnostics. infraView develops solutions for the rail world of tomorrow with their services consisting of IT and requirements management and consultancy, concept design, software development & implementation, data analytics and machine learning, operational management, and proven platform solutions. They work with standardized interfaces across suppliers and manufacturers and strive to develop innovative technologies to sustainably improve the rail lifecycle in Germany and worldwide.

Transmission Dynamics is a multi-award-winning company, who specialise in the cutting-edge industrial IoT solutions, to support truly remote condition monitoring and predictive maintenance solutions informed by machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Our multi-disciplinary team of mechanical, electronics, software and data analysis engineers are housed in our new purpose built, £4.2m R&D and Manufacturing facility in the North East of England. This in-house team design, develop and deploy sensors, electronics, and software, interfaced with our Global Data Network to provide global rail clients instant and actionable insights resulting from the data generated by these systems.

Critical to our success is the constant drive to stay ahead of future sensor design to push the boundaries of what IoT applications can do to support industry.

ZF is a global technology company supplying systems for passenger cars, commercial vehicles and industrial technology.

With its comprehensive product portfolio, the company offers integrated solutions for established vehicle manufacturers, mobility providers and startup companies in the fields of transportation and mobility. Digital networking and automation are focal points of ZF system development as it transitions to becoming a software- and cloud-based company. ZF allows vehicles to see, think and act.

Thanks to the company’s over 90-year tradition in the rail business, manufacturers and operators of rail vehicles know ZF as a supplier of flawless, reliable, and long-lasting products for pioneering rail applications. For rail vehicles, ZF not only offers the right driveline and chassis technology: the connect@rail condition monitoring solutions demonstrate how integrated sensors and advanced data analysis tools can further improve efficiency, reliability and safety in rail transportation.

Amsted Digital Solutions® has been providing leading onboard technology combined with advanced software applications for tracking and monitoring freight wagon fleets for nearly 15 years. Our third-generation IQ Series™ gateway has virtually eliminated the need for specialized external sensors typically required to monitor various aspects of a freight wagon. The IQ Series gateway has numerous built-in features, including two multi-axis accelerometers (high and low frequency), an integrated microphone for acoustic signature recognition, a magnetic field variation capability to determine load state changes, and a hybrid proprietary solar-powered design for extended service life. Amsted Digital Solutions is a division of Amsted Rail Company, Inc., the leading global provider of undercarriage and end-of-car wagon components with over 40 locations across 6 continents and more than 140 years of excellence in rail component design and manufacturing.

With a footprint in more than 20 countries T-Systems is one of the world's leading vendor independent providers of digital services headquartered in Europe. As a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary it offers one-stop shopping: from secure operation of legacy systems and classical ICT services, transition to cloud-based services as well as new business models and innovation projects in the Internet of Things.

ASTERRA is a world leader in L-band S.A.R. (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite-based infrastructure intelligence. The company’s patented algorithms for the detection of soil moisture below ground bring to the market the only intelligence of this kind. By analyzing S.A.R. imagery, ASTERRA collects hard, actionable data, which it puts in the hands of ground crews, planners, and engineers. Since its inception, ASTERRA has expanded its product line from “Recover” for water leak detection to include “Masterplan” for long-term water infrastructure planning and “Earthworks” for ground engineering intelligence across multiple verticals including rail, roads, dams, and mining.

Cervello is a trusted railway cybersecurity leader dedicated to ensuring railway safety, reliability, and business continuity for railway organizations globally.

Our unique, zero-trust and yet fully passive cybersecurity solution provides a complete contextual representation of the operational activity and continuously monitors the railway’s mission-critical assets, enabling railway operators and infrastructure managers to mitigate threats as they arise and avoid disruption — all without interfering with the highly sensitive and complex railway infrastructure.

Railway organizations rely on Cervello to secure both their legacy and modern systems so that they can continue to operate safely.

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Rail by Unity Group enhances rail maintenance with unique data and automation solutions for optimal efficiency and cost management since 2018.

ReFaMo - WE SEE THE INVISIBLE!TM

ReFaMo is a data analytics company that specialises in providing solutions for the analysis of fatigue development in welded steel structures. The real-time monitoring of fatigue and linking the load to fatigue development has traditionally been a challenge. ReFaMo’s solution revolutionises this process by offering a reliable real-time estimate for the remaining lifespan of the structure. The data gathered serves to:

• Validate design parameters in actual usage
• Optimise preventive, predictive, and condition-based maintenance
• Plan asset management effectively
• Gather data for training and digital twin applications, and
• Enable operators to consider fatigue development in their operations.

By correlating the analysed data with other information, it becomes feasible to reliably estimate the cause of the fatigue and optimise necessary actions based on this information.