GERMANY: Maintenance vehicle and small plant specialist Robel Bahnbaumaschinen will be highlighting technology to address three key megatrends at this year’s IAF infrastructure and maintenance show in Münster: decarbonisation; digitisation and demographics.
Among the products on display will be newly-developed hand operated machines with electric and hybrid drives for wrenching, grinding and drilling. These will be demonstrated live in the outdoor area.
The focus of Robel’s rail vehicle display will be urban rail and metro applications. The company will be launching its Romill Urban E³ milling train, which has been developed as a formal co-operation between subsidiaries Schweerbau International, which has led the development of the battery hybrid drive technology, and Vogel & Plötscher, which has supplied the measuring equipment.
Plasser Robel Services, which was formed in January through the merger of Deutsche Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen GmbH and the Robel Service & Customer Service business, will be presenting its multi-brand service provision portfolio, while Vogel & Plötscher will unveil its Rail Surface Crack Measurement device, offering an additional tool to quantify crack depths and irregularities in the rail surface.
Robel Rail Automation meanwhile will mark its first appearance at IAF by presenting studies that it has undertaken into the automation of labour-intensive manual maintenance tasks. Robot-guided tools will be used to demonstrate the measuring and correction of rail defects.
