HUAWEI: RAIL SYSTEM FOR FREIGHT TRAINS
Huawei has pushed IoT forward in the APAC region with the transformation of the Chongqing West Locomotive Depot in China.
The rail system in China is steadily growing in tandem with the rise of the country’s economy and is currently experiencing a 5% increase in freight train demand every 12 months. The depot has 20 tracks spanning across 50 kilometers and performs repairs and maintenance on approximately 20,000 freight trains and 22,000 wheelsets on an annual basis.
Chongqing West Locomotive Depot is the largest freight train maintenance base in western China, and officials hope that technology will provide a way to “achieve more intelligent repair and maintenance operations, which would be paperless, visualized, and mobile.”
The main challenge facing the depot was a lack of data sharing. Different maintenance systems were isolated and without a means to talk to each other, leaving the job to staff and paper records which allowed room for error.
The technology is expected to “achieve more intelligent repair and maintenance operations, which would be paperless, visualized, and mobile.”
Huawei created a customized Railway Agile Depot IIoT solution for the depot, bringing together IoT, automation, and agile networking. The solution includes a unified communication systems panel, predictive maintenance technologies, component data collection, as well as real-time equipment and production monitoring which gives the operators the ability to analyze and trace risk factors.
Chongqing West Locomotive Depot has been able to improve train repair and maintenance quality, enhance personnel safety, and reduce emissions rates by 30%. In addition, Huawei says the depot has shortened repair and maintenance times by 20%.
30%
reduction in emissions
20%
reduction in maintenance times
