Trimble’s rail solutions combine the latest in sensors and monitoring technologies with customized software and wireless communications to quickly and accurately capture the data needed to maintain and construct rail infrastructure or to manage rail transport assets.

Trimble’s rail asset lifecycle management products manage the lifecycle of rail transport assets from operation through maintenance and repair. The Trimble Nexala range of data aggregation and analytics solutions are used by engineering, maintenance, and fleet operations managers of train operating companies to optimize maintenance programs, increase asset utilization, and improve fleet management. The Trimble Beena Vision range of vision-based wayside non-contact measurement and inspection technologies enable the automated, proactive monitoring of rolling stock condition, providing data feeds that can be processed to effectively assess rolling stock condition from component level to full train inspection.

Using this comprehensive portfolio of on-board and wayside condition monitoring solutions, rail companies can improve operational efficiencies, increase safety, manage service levels and reduce costs.

Customers using Trimble solutions include major freight operators such as BNSF, Aurizon, Norfolk Southern and Canadian National as well as many passenger operators such as SNCF, SJ, NS, Eurostar, Irish Rail, the Go-Ahead group, Arriva and Greater Anglia among others.