Rigid track efficiency
More efficient, more precise, safer: with innovative systems such as RhoMAT, the Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group is improving the quality and performance of fixed tracks in modern railway construction.
Support for the construction of slab tracks / Photo: Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group
Rigid track systems in railway construction are crucial for both low-maintenance operation and high track availability. However, manufacturing these systems is often laborious and there is a lack of efficient construction methods. This is where the Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group (RSRG) comes in with its solutions.
Based on many years of experience in the construction and maintenance of a wide variety of different superstructure solutions, RSRG is developing new approaches to sustainably increase the efficiency of these systems. One example of this is the tachymeter-controlled automatic track lifting and alignment device RhoMAT, which combines several work steps and simultaneously increases the accuracy of the end product. The RhoMAT’s 14-metre-long longitudinal frame roughly positions the track grid in terms of position and height while reducing tensions in the rails and significantly accelerating the tachymeter-controlled alignment process. The prototype has been developed in collaboration with partners and was successfully tested in the German ‘ARGE S21 Feste Fahrbahn Fildern’ project. The combination of lifting and aligning led to a noticeable reduction in the length of the work site and a 15 percent increase in installation performance. Thanks to the integrated quality control, the system ensures efficient and safe operation. The necessary work force is reduced by 50 percent, and physically demanding work is largely eliminated. Depending on the track system, the mobile and modularly adaptable system enables daily outputs of up to 300 metres. For less demanding applications, the RhoMAT can even handle the entire fine alignment process, thus contributing significantly to increased quality, efficiency and occupational safety in track construction. The Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group offers its customers further efficiency-enhancing solutions for the continuous optimisation of railway infrastructure, including robot-based marketing systems, real-time quality assurance measurements and camera-based monitoring of construction progress.