Machinery dynamics & acoustics

We solve all problems regarding noise and vibration, perform root cause analyses and develop customised measurement systems. We perform experiments in the laboratory, at the customers’ test facilities or in the field.
We offer the following services:

Machinery dynamics
Acoustics
Customised measurement and test systems, solutions for analysing signals and data
Root cause analysis
Customised training courses in vibrations and acoustics

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Frank May

Frank May

Manager Test Lab Winterthur

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Andreas Siegrist

Andreas Siegrist

Sales Manager Testing

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Reference projects




Fleet strategy in line with rollout ETCS L2

Customer: Furrer+Frey AG, Switzerland
Generic project handbook for rolling stock procurements

Customer: RAlpin AG, Switzerland
Feasibility study driverless train operation (DTO) Waldenburgerbahn

Customer: BLT Baselland Transport AG, Switzerland
Expert assessment - Operation of UIC and AAR brake systems

Customer: Israel Railways, Israel
Industry solution Automatic Train Operation

Customer: VöV (Verband öffentlicher Verkehr - Association of Public Transport) Working Group ATO, metre and special gauge railways of Switzerland, Switzerland
Support to ECM accreditation

Customer: Trentino Trasporti Spa, Italy
OC Software Development Cost Estimation

Customer: Swiss Federal Railways SBB; Switzerland
Market Innovation Strategy Consulting for ESTET within ACstyria

Customer: ACstyria / ESTET STAHL- UND BEHÄLTERBAU, Austria
PROSE AG investigates and evaluates BVB’s unusual infrastructure damages

Customer: Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB); Switzerland
Business Analyst - WiFi on board for tourists

Customer: SBB Passenger Traffic; Switzerland
Gauging and rolling stock construction gauge analysis
Ad interim locomotive fleet manager

Customer: Swiss Federal Railways SBB; Switzerland
Leadership Coaching ECM2 Manager for life cycle extension Re620

Customer: SBB Cargo; Switzerland
Smartrail 4.0 - Program Management COAT / CCS Vehicle Equipment

Customer: Industry program smartrail 4.0, SBB Infrastructure; Switzerland
Programme Management, Project Management with PMO

Customer: Sector programme smartrail 4.0, SBB Infrastructure; Switzerland
Alternative forms of operation for the Appenzellers Rack railways

Customer: INFRAS, Switzerland / End customer: Canton of Appenzell A.Rh. and St. Gallen
Feasibility study for passenger cars with standardised length and fleet-wide introduction of an automatic coupling machine

Customer: Rhaetian Railway, Switzerland
Procurement of catenary line installation vehicle

Customer: Furrer+Frey AG, Switzerland
Procurement of a road-rail motor tower car

Customer: BERNMOBIL (Municipal Transport Services Bern), Switzerland
Support for the purchase of low-floor trams

Customer: Basel Public Transport Authority BVB, Switzerland
Interior design of Delhi Metro

Customer: Bombardier Transportation, Sweden
End customer: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, India
Technical Controlling FLIRT 3

Customer: Landesanstalt für Schienenfahrzeuge Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Project management assistance in the supply management of IR rolling stock

Customer: zb Zentralbahn AG, Switzerland
ZPS vehicle expert for the electronic network "Saar-RB"

Customer: ZPS - Zweckverband Personennahverkehr Saarland, Germany; SPNV Nord - Zweckverband Schienenpersonennahverkehr Rheinland-Pfalz Nord, Germany; SPNV Süd - Zweckverband Schienenpersonennahverkehr Rheinland-Pfalz Süd, Germany
Consulting for Efficiency Increase Maintenance and Life Cycle Cost Optimisation Fleet

Customer: ÖBB Personenverkehr AG, Austria
New suspended monorail vehicles for Wuppertal

Customer: Kiepe Electric GmbH, Germany
Operator: WSW mobil GmbH, Germany
Design of a 100% low-floor tram

Customer: CRRC Sifang Co Ltd, China
Operator: Chinese public transport company
Bogie engineering in Finland

BLT Baselland Transport AG, Switzerland
Turnkey engineering of a high-speed freight wagon with sliding walls

Customer: CRRC Shandong, China
Operator: Chinese market
Gauge-changing bogie - EV09

Customer: Montreux-Berner Oberland- Bahn (MOB), Switzerland
Train Level system engineering for Domodossola-Locarno scenic train

Customer: OFV- CORIFER, Italy
End customer: Società Subalpina Impese Ferroviarie (SSIF), Italy
Development of a powered bogie for a diesel-electric locomotive

Customer: Schalker Eisenhütte, Germany
Operator: Rhaetian Railways (RhB), Switzerland
General purpose control unit as SIL2 platform
German maglev train adapted to operation in China

Shanghai Maglev Transportation Development Co. Ltd (SMTDC), China
RAMS analysis of the Vivalto double-deck coaches

Customer: ATI (AnsaldoBreda, OFV and Magliola), Italy
End customer: Trenitalia, Italy
Vehicle behaviour in case of crosswind

Customer: Transtech Oy, Finland
End customer: VR Group (Finnish Railways), Finland
Analyses and simulations

Customer: serveral customers
Component development for a crashworthy locomotive

>Customer: SMH Rail SDN. BHD., Malaysia
Operator: Malaysian and Asian market
Vehicle gauge clearance calculation for trams and metros

Customers: Hamburger HOCHBAHN AG, Germany; VAG Nürnberg, Germany
Bogies for the six-axle narrow gauge locomotive QR 3800

Customer: SIEMENS, Germany
Operator: Queensland Rail, Australia
Bogies for the CP 2000 commuter trains for the Portuguese state railways

Customer: Bombardier Transportation, Norway
MIRA (Level crossing protection system) - V&V process

Customer: Progress Rail Services, Italy
End customer: Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), Italy
NAP6S electronic unit for passenger alarm system management

Customer: SEPA, Italy
End customer: Trenitalia, Italy
CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co Vehicle Driverless Technology of KVLRT3 Project

Customer: CRRC Jinan, China
Strength calculation and mechanical design of a gauge change ramp

Customer: CEREC EngineeringEnd Customer: MBC, Switzerland
Towards noise and weight reduction by innovative CFRP wheelsets

Customer: Swiss Federal Office for the Environment FOEN (BAFU)
Development of the MOB gauge-changing facility in Zweisimmen

Customer: Montreux Berner Oberland Bahn AG (MOB), Switzerland
Turn-Key Engineering Snowblower Stoosbahn

Customer: ZAUGG AG EGGIWIL, Switzerland - Operator: Stoosbahnen AG, Switzerland
Design of universal air conditioner test bench

Customer: Swiss Federal Railways SBB, Switzerland
Car body development

Customer: Kiepe Electric GmbH, Germany
End customer: Public transport company of Wuppertal, Germany
Homologation of a hopper wagon

Customer: Ateliers du Groupe Ermewa, France and Switzerland
Acceptance tests of high speed trains

Customer: Bombardier and Talgo, Spain
End customer: RENFE AVE (Spanish State Railways), Spain
Acceptance testing of running behavior for the Eem 923

Customer: Stadler Winterthur AG, Switzerland
End customer: SBB Cargo, Switzerland
Homologation measurements for Desiro ML ÖBB

Customer: Siemens, Switzerland
End customer: Austrian Federal Railway (ÖBB), Austria
Running behaviour type tests for DE18 & G18 Locomotives

Customer: Kiepe Electric GmbH, Germany
Type test of sleeping cars for the RZD

Customer: Siemens AG, Austria
End customer: Russian State Railways (RZD), Russia
Safety assessment of derailment on twisted tracks

Customer: serveral customers
Homologation pantograph in the 57-km Gotthard Base Tunnel

Customer: Swiss Federal Railway (SBB), Switzerland
Swiss net access for Siemens Vectron

Customer: Siemens, Switzerland
End customer: BLS, Switzerland
Brake-system tests on freight wagon

Customer: CRRC Jinan Railway Vehicles Equipment (JNRVE), China
Noise measurements of low-noise freight wagons

Customer: Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Switzerland
Wheel slide protection tests on a tram train

Customer: Bombardier, Germany
End customer: Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG (KVB), Germany
Resistance to motion measurements on Haramain high speed train

Customer: Patentes Talgo S.L.U., Spain
End customer: Saudi Railways Organization, Saudi Arabia
Acceptance tests Swiss double-deck train sets

Customer: Bombardier, Canada
Acceptance tests 6-axle loco for South Africa

Customer: Bombardier, Switzerland
Stadler EC250 homologation Panto

Customer: Stadler, Switzerland
End customer: SBB, Switzerland
Acceptance tests bimodal locomotive H4

Customer: Alstom, France
Regiolis CEVA Swiss homologation tests

Customer: Alstom, France
Bombardier TRAXX homologation pantograph CH160

Customer: Bombardier, Germany
Stadler FLIRT SOB Panto CH160

Customer: Stadler, Switzerland
ALSTOM - Aem 940 Locomotive

Customer: Alstom, France
MI09 (Tiroir Frein / Bogie Porteur) – Software V&V process

Customer: Alstom, France
Citadis Evolution Traction Control System – Software V&V process

Customer: Alstom, Italy
Running ability test of selected freight wagons with automatic couplers

Customer: Swiss railway company
Expert opinion on the derailment of a two-way vehicle

Customer: BVB, Basler Verkehrsbetriebe; Switzerland
Expert assessment running dynamics of TramTrains

Customer: TÜV Rheinland, Germany / End customer: Vossloh (now STADLER RAIL VALENCIA S.A.U.), Spain
Expert assessment running dynamics
Expert report on running dynamics of an Atlas road-rail- excavator

Customer: Atlas GmbH, Germany
Homologation support for the approval of an automatic coupler

Customer: SBB Cargo, Switzerland
Track side price calculation
Troubleshooting on DSB’s fleet of IC4 and IC2 DMUs

Customer: Danish State Railways (DSB), Denmark
Operator/End customer: Danish State Railways (DSB), Denmark
Maintenance cost analysis for PÅGATÅG

Customer: Go-Ahead Nordic, Sweden
RIVAS: Actions to reduce railwayinduced vibrations

Customer: International Union of Railways (UIC)
End customer: European Commission (EC)
sonRAIL: A measurement program for calculation of railway noise

Customer: Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
Optimisation and wear forecasts for wheel and rail profiles

Customer: Several
End customer: Railway operators
European Train Control System: retrofit of rolling stock

Customer: Several customers
Snow-clearing device for Oslo Metro MX3000

Customer: Oslo Vognselskap AS, Norway
Operator: Sporveien Oslo AS, Norway
Repair of the bogie frame of an EL 18 locomotive

Customer: Mantena AS, Norway
End customer: Norwegian State Railway (NSB), Norway
Train level complete RAMS analysis

Customer: Hitachi Rail, Italy
Audit of the Onboard ERTMS

Customer: Banedanmark (BDK), Denmark
Machinery dynamics and acoustics services

Customer: Several customers from a variety of industries
Predictive Maintenance - Basis of decision-making

Customer: Thurbo AG, Switzerland
Driving a 2,200t freight train safely down the Brenner Pass

Customer: Rail Traction Company SPA, Italy
Definition of new wheel profiles

Customer: Transports Publics Neuchâtelois SA, Switzerland
Centralised documentation system for Arlanda Express

Customer: A-Train AB, Sweden
Proof of safety against derailment of a rail crane

Customer: Plasser & Theurer, Austria
End customer: Sersa, Switzerland
Measurements on innovative freight wagons

Customer: Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur (BMVI),Germany
Gentle passing on tracks through narrow curves

Customer: Swiss Federal Office of Transport (BAV), Switzerland
Measurements on upgraded Swedish intercity train X2000

Customer: ABB, Switzerland
Measurements to increase maximum speed of vehicles

Customer: Rhaetian Railways, Switzerland
Investigation of high wheel-rail wear

Customer: Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn, Switzerland
Operational introduction of system freight wagons

Customer: SBB CARGO, Switzerland
Business Consulting Implementation ECM Regulation 779

Customer: SBB CARGO, ECM2 strategic fleet management, Switzerland
Support by the documentation for refurbishment of components within the scope of heavy maintenance

Customer: BLS AG, Switzerland
Modernisation of SBB’s IC2000 fleet

Customer: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), Passenger Division (P-OP), Switzerland
Refurbishment of X2000 class high-speed trains

Customer: Swedtrac, Sweden
Operator: Swedish State Railways (SJ), Sweden
Modernisation of a double-deck suburban trainset

Customer: Cideon, Switzerland
End customer: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), Passenger Division (P-OP), Switzerland
Retrofit of vehicles into Domino trains

Customer: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), Passenger Division (P-OP), Switzerland
Modernisation of restaurant car R12

Customer: ÅF, Sweden
End customer: Swedish Transport Administration, Sweden
Refurbishment of OBW10 track vehicles

Customer: BS Verkstäder, Sweden
End customer: Banedanmark Teknik, Denmark
Electro schematics ICN

Customer: SBB, Switzerland
OTU Refurbishment

Customer: Swedtrac, Sweden
End customer: Öresundståg, Sweden
Redesign of the driver environment of Stockholm's Metro

Customer: MTR Tech, Sweden
Definition of Installation Space for an aerodynamical optimisation of the SBB IC 2000 AD-Coaches

Customer: SBB AG, Switzerland
Modularised maintenance strategy through serialisation

Customer: SBB Cargo Switzerland



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Zürcherstrasse 41
8400 Winterthur
Switzerland
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