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TFsim Point Machine Monitoring

System
Smart maintenance and failure prediction for reliability improvement
TFsim objectives

Streamline maintenance
Improve availability
Predict breakdowns
Traditional monitoring is currently
TFsim PM Monitoring System
being reinvented to meet todays
stringent safety requirements and Web based access for real time 24/7
quality standards. monitoring condition based
maintenance in order to streamline,
Modern monitoring processes must prevent breakdowns and reliability
include not only the capacity to improvement besides costs reduction.
receive data on critical points of the Instant alarm reporting with artificial
process or service chain, but also the intelligence breakdown diagnosis.
possibility to predict potential
problems.

It is within this context that TFsim

Point Machine Monitoring System has
been designed with the aim to
provide support tool for the
maintenance of railway signaling
systems.

45% breakdown reduction

40% reliability improvement

DAEN: Data logger registering electrical,

34% maintenance reduction environmental and mechanical information

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TFsim monitored parameters

1. Electrical information:
DAEN monitors all required
parameters to effectively evaluate
the performance of the point
machine.
It records: peak and average
current consumption, peak and
average voltage, active and
reactive power, power factor, test
voltage, operation time, number of
operations, true RMS current
signal, and the full operation
current and voltage signals.
DAEN is a high performance and Highest sample frequency (up to 20KHz)
high precision data logger thanks to performs MCSA and spectral analysis able to
detect mechanical and electric defects
its multithread capability.

2. Mechanical information: Many of this anomalies can be detected

through detailed analysis of the behavior of
DAEN monitors the control bars the point machines control bars
position with the aid of Hall sensors
and CDX measures.
CDX is a peripheral system
responsible for visually control gap
monitoring through artificial vision.
This information turns to be very
relevant due to the control gap
maintenance complexity caused by
weather, trains, rail maintenance, Control bar gap

mechanical stress, etc.

PM incidents of a mechanical nature: 70%

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TFsim monitored parameters

3. Vibration and spectral analysis:

Due to DAENs high speed data logger
features and within its cutting edge
technology multithread processor is
able to provide spectral analysis for
mechanical defects early detection

4. Environment monitoring:
The same device collects information
to feed the artificial intelligence and
help the user to analyze different
parameters that may be dependant
with the environment.

Data access and analytic tool Its a very interesting,

Access to all the data collected and generation of useful and intuitive
useful and intuitive charts. application, which has
You can generate comparison charts in order to helped us to avoid
detect and analyze important correlations. breakdowns with
important impact
You can superimpose alarm limits to visualize data to passengers, as well
in a context of good performance. to reduce significantly
The system calculates daily average data, useful for the maintenance
detecting slow trend type failures. costs
The system performs charting statistical data Superstructure
related to the whole system. Some examples: Maintenace Service.
alarms per line, alarms by PM type, efficiency, etc. Barcelona Metro

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TFsim visualization interface: TFclient

Artificial intelligence for failure

prediction and identification
TFclient Report example
Data is evaluated in order to generate
reports through threshold alarms, trends
and failure patterns.
TFclient is a WEB based interface accessible
through any web browser with network
connection to the TFsim server.
Designed under dashboard concept allows
user customization of the information
displayed from a large variety of
functionalities.
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3 5

5 6

1 Real time information 3 Control blade gap monitoring 5 Alarms

2 Last movement information 4 Data charts tools 6 Internal messages

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TFsim operation chain

DAEN device 1. Configuration

The system architecture is suitable for
any kind of point machine.
DAEN device is placed inside the point
machine with no interference with its
functionality and safety compliances.

2. Data registering
Current Control bar
Voltage position
Control voltage Draw bar
Wave form position
Power Train vibration
Reactive power Tilting
Temperature Draw bar return
3 axis vibration

3. Data transmission
Data sent through standard copper
wire to a communication
transceiver which distributes it to
Ethernet, GPRS, 3G and 4G.

DAEN

Data transceiver

TFserver

TFclient

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TFsim system architecture

TFclient
24/7 web based multi
platform Front-end.

ECON communications
transceiver
Link between the server
and monitoring devices
on the CAN net, gathers,
process and transmit
information through
Ethernet, 3G, 4G or wifi
network.

TFrep
CAN enhanced protocol
HUB and repeater able to
send and repeat data up
to 600 meters distance.

DAEN
Point machine monitoring
device for predictive
maintenance, availability
improvement and
preventive reduction.

CDX
Artificial vision device for
control gap inspection
and failure prediction.

Upgradable system
TFsim is upgradable for other monitoring products such as track circuit monitoring, track width
and displacement, depot point machines, derailers, etc.

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TFsim advanced features

Breakdown diagnosis through AI

The system is equipped with an artificial
intelligence system able to categorize a
list of alerts and assign to them a specific
pathology.
Not only generates alerts, but it also
predicts the cause and, when possible,
suggests how to correct the source of the
problem that is generating the alerts.
In addition, the data acquisition
hardware itself is endowed with
intelligence capable of detecting a fault
and generates extensive data of the
problem. This data is sent to the server
for further analysis. Applicable to a wide range of motors
Hot swappable, compact and modular Same data logger can monitor a wide
range of point machine types, including:
Is scalable to any infrastructure size.
one or three phase AC and DC engines
It incorporates on-board data storage so without distinction of electro-mechanic or
monitored information is not lost in the electro-hydraulic Point Machines.
case of unavailability of the Server.
Automatically monitors required
It can be remotely configured and parameters for each type of PM
programmed. depending on the configuration.

Customizable and user friendly Non intrusive and easy to install

TFsim system is multi-user. Each user
customize the screens as they own needs.
The application is organized in widgets
that contain information. Each user,
depending on their profile, can configure
the widgets they need to better handle
such a volume of information. Is user-
friendly because allows each user to
configure the application exactly the way
they want it.
Electrical parameters are monitored with
an isolated and high impedance circuit to
guarantee no interference with the
systems operation.
Compliance
EN 61373, RoHS 2002/95/C
ERAEE 2002/96/CE, EN 9100
EN 45545-5:2013
EN50121-4, EN61010-1

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Complementary information

Operation voltage 8 40 Vdc

Power
Power Consumption 140mA@12Vdc

Protocol Fault Tolerance CAN Bus (ISO 11898-3)

Communication Number of wires needed 2
Baudrate 50-125 kbps

Isolation Voltage 1400 Vpeak

Input Impedance (Voltage
Electrical Char. >1.5MOhms
measurement)
Precision 1%

Operating Temperature Industrial Range(-40C to +85C)

Mounting 35mm DIN rail
MTBF 105 hours
Enclosure IP 65
Physical Char.
Width 33.5 mm
Height 73 mm
Depth 42 mm
Weight 88 g

Sampling Frequency 2 KHz to 20KHz

Operation Data logging time
Minimum Time between
Features
operation detection
Memory
Visual Indicators
9s (MAX)
0.01s
Up to 10 Movements Stored
Actual position and Operation Leds.

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Thinking Forward XXI SL
Deg Bah 62, 08026 Barcelona
Spain
The information in this document contains
general descriptions of the technical options
available, which do not always have to be
present in individual cases. The required
features should therefore be specified in each
individual case at the time of closing the
contract.

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