Rail Industry

Cost Savings Through Optimization

One of the most important challenges faced by rail locomotive operators is maximizing uptimes and lengthening service intervals while preserving the operating integrity of large rotating engines.Poseidon Systems’ Industrial IoT solution can avoid unexpected downtimes by monitoring oil & other lubricating fluids for wear debris, online oil condition monitoring, vibration, and other sensors that foretell mechanical failures. Our sensors can detect excessive levels of moisture, combustion by-products, and other contaminants, enabling predictive maintenance activities based on the health of the engine. Additionally, our engine-mounted sensors provide maintenance technicians with the information that enable our customers to keep their locomotives in operation for longer without breakdowns, and also gives them the advance knowledge of when maintenance—whether minor or major—is coming due sooner than expected, before a catastrophic failure occurs. This data and information helps customers maximize uptime, eliminate remote oil testing costs, and especially maximize revenues.

Wheel Bearing Monitoring & Grease Wear Levels

Poseidon’s handheld ferrous metal debris monitor allows for customers to immediately understand the heath and ferrous debris concentration of greased wheel bearings and other greased equipment. This provides the closest option to real-time monitoring of greased bearings and enables faults to be detected with sooner and with increased ease than if using grease samples sent for offline lab analysis, which in turn saves money in a variety of ways.

What We Do & Our Approach

Poseidon Systems designs and manufactures sensors to help optimize operations and reduce O&M costs for our customer. Our online wear debris sensors are able to provide the earliest fault detection of any condition-based monitoring solution and adds value to our customer’s operations in a number of different ways. Early fault detection reduces O&M costs through better planning and reduced downtime and extends the locomotive’s useful life.

Poseidon is able to deliver real, applicable results to our customers. Key benefits of Poseidon’s online wear debris sensors include the ability to detect, size, and classify metallic particles as ferrous vs. nonferrous, the ability to provide real-time, online locomotive health information, and most importantly reduce secondary damage as a result of mechanical faults . The online, real-time information

enables to ability to find emergent mechanical issues sooner than traditional semiannual oil sampling practices. The real-time, conditional based monitoring approach Poseidon takes enables our customers to take the earliest action possible and prevent further damage to the locomotive, which can be quite expensive for locomotives. Additionally, online oil condition monitoring enables operators to extend locomotive life and make less unnecessary replacements and save up to millions of dollars a year. 

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