{"id":559,"date":"2022-09-01T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/de\/?p=559"},"modified":"2024-09-11T10:39:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T08:39:59","slug":"full-speed-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/full-speed-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Full speed ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Punc\u00adtual trains, energy-effi\u00adcient tech\u00adnology and an infra\u00adstruc\u00adture that allows higher capacity \u2013 those are the basic require\u00adments for a mobility turn\u00adaround. In order to achieve these goals, Euro\u00adpean railway oper\u00adating com\u00adpa\u00adnies must digi\u00adtise and stan\u00addardise their con\u00adtrol and safety tech\u00adnology. What is needed are modern, safe and envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtally friendly tech\u00adnolo\u00adgies like those that are already com\u00admon\u00adplace in industry. Industry-tested system solu\u00adtions from Pilz are already being used in classic railway appli\u00adca\u00adtions such as switch con\u00adtrollers or railway cross\u00adings, as well as for areas of overlap between indus\u00adtrial and railway appli\u00adca\u00adtions. Pilz has thus suc\u00adcess\u00adfully entered the field of railway tech\u00adnology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fusion of industrial automation and railway technology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pilz now wishes to actively help shape the future of the rail industry and, with the founding of the new Busi\u00adness Unit Rail, is broad\u00adening its product range for railway tech\u00adnology to offer more automa\u00adtion solu\u00adtions for rail\u00adways. \u201cWe are cre\u00adating more internal resources for a port\u00adfolio and appli\u00adca\u00adtion engi\u00adneering spe\u00adcially tai\u00adlored to our railway \u00adcus\u00adtomers. Addi\u00adtion\u00adally, we are designing new dig\u00adital solu\u00adtions by merging indus\u00adtrial appli\u00adca\u00adtions with railway and signal engi\u00adneering. With our industry-proven automa\u00adtion solu\u00adtions, we are already fully sat\u00adis\u00adfying the wide-ranging require\u00adments of the rail industry! We are thus the first choice for a safe dig\u00adital infra\u00adstruc\u00adture for rail\u00adways,\u201d explains Sebas\u00adtian L\u00fcke, Head of Busi\u00adness Unit Rail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comprehensive portfolio from one source<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For Michael Fohrer, Pres\u00adi\u00addent of Busi\u00adness Unit Rail, Pilz is taking exactly the right steps: \u00ad\u201cIndustry started on the path of digi\u00adti\u00adsa\u00adtion much ear\u00adlier. The strengths and expe\u00adri\u00adences that Pilz was already able to gather in indus\u00adtrial appli\u00adca\u00adtions are ide\u00adally suited to the exten\u00adsive require\u00adments of railway engi\u00adneering. The open inter\u00adfaces and stan\u00addard\u00adised Pilz solu\u00adtions have enor\u00admous poten\u00adtial for replacing pre\u00advi\u00adously pro\u00adpri\u00adetary railway appli\u00adca\u00adtions.\u201d The automa\u00adtion company\u2019s exper\u00adtise is also directed into railway-spe\u00adcific ser\u00advices such as project plan\u00adning and project man\u00adage\u00adment, pro\u00adgram\u00adming, doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion and sup\u00adport in the approval process. Know-how in the areas of work\u00adplace safety, machinery safety and the \u2018Indus\u00adtrial Safety and Health Ordi\u00adnance\u2019 is also needed for the plants on com\u00adpany premises. Railway oper\u00adating com\u00adpa\u00adnies ben\u00adefit from this com\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsive railway port\u00adfolio from one source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working together for the technology of tomorrow<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The automa\u00adtion system PSS 4000 with its spe\u00adcial railway mod\u00adules already takes on the con\u00adtrol and mon\u00adi\u00adtoring func\u00adtions in var\u00adious railway appli\u00adca\u00adtions, which railway oper\u00adating com\u00adpa\u00adnies rely on. This is because PSS 4000 has railway-spe\u00adcific safety approvals as a product fea\u00adture and plays an impor\u00adtant role, for example, in the Euro\u00adpean \u00adproject EULYNX. 13 major Euro\u00adpean oper\u00ada\u00adtors, including Deutsche Bahn, Pro\u00adRail Nieder\u00adlande and SBB Schweiz, have joined together under this mantle. The goal is to develop and pro\u00advide uni\u00adform stan\u00addards for mod\u00adular inter\u00adlocking tech\u00adnology. Specif\u00adi\u00adcally, Pilz has been working in a devel\u00adop\u00adment part\u00adner\u00adship with Pro\u00adRail, the largest railway infra\u00adstruc\u00adture man\u00adager in the Nether\u00adlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dare to be more open<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the project, the safe automa\u00adtion system PSS 4000 from Pilz is used as the hard\u00adware basis for the so-called EULYNX adapter. This enables the use of man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adturer-inde\u00adpen\u00addent EULYNX stan\u00addards in existing inter\u00adlock\u00adings because the adapter estab\u00adlishes the com\u00adpat\u00adi\u00adbility between the inter\u00adlocking tech\u00adnology and the so-called object con\u00adtrollers. Dig\u00adital con\u00adtrol com\u00admands from inter\u00adlock\u00adings are trans\u00adlated by the object con\u00adtroller into ana\u00adlogue sig\u00adnals in the EULYNX stan\u00addard. These can then be inter\u00adpreted by the end device \u2013 like the switch, for example. This would be a major step away from local, country-spe\u00adcific solu\u00adtions and toward an open railway market based on dig\u00adital con\u00adtrol and safety tech\u00adnology. And what hap\u00adpens on the Euro\u00adpean railway market and stan\u00addard\u00adi\u00ads\u00ada\u00adtion is fre\u00adquently used as a global example for rail\u00adways. Exciting future prospects for Pilz, and the Busi\u00adness Unit in par\u00adtic\u00adular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pilz is riding the rails<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

With the estab\u00adlish\u00adment of the rail busi\u00adness unit, Pilz is increasing its activ\u00adi\u00adties in the railway industry under the lead\u00ader\u00adship of Sebas\u00adtian L\u00fcke, Head of Busi\u00adness Unit Rail. After all, Pilz is the first choice for a safe dig\u00adital infra\u00adstruc\u00adture for rail\u00adways. Sebas\u00adtian L\u00fcke (on the right in the pic\u00adture) has been respon\u00adsible for building up the Busi\u00adness Unit Rail from the very begin\u00adning and now heads the inter\u00adna\u00adtional team. The renowned rail expert Michael Fohrer (on the left in the pic\u00adture) \u2013 along with his expe\u00adri\u00adence as a former VDB pres\u00adi\u00addent \u00ad(Ver\u00adband der Bah\u00adnin\u00addus\u00adtrie in Deutsch\u00adland e. V. \u00ad[German railway industry asso\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion]) and his exper\u00adtise from 13 years of man\u00adage\u00adment respon\u00adsi\u00adbility at Bom\u00adbardier Trans\u00adporta\u00adtion \u2013 will sup\u00adport the rail busi\u00adness unit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Everyone is talking about the Mobility Turn\u00adaround, meaning that railway oper\u00adating com\u00adpa\u00adnies around the world are facing the chal\u00adlenge of digi\u00adtising the entire rail net\u00adwork over the coming years. The aim? Railway oper\u00ada\u00adtions should become safer, better, simply rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtionised for cli\u00admate-neu\u00adtral mobility. Pilz is there\u00adfore expanding its product range for rail\u00adways and, with the estab\u00adlish\u00adment of the Busi\u00adness Unit Rail, is bundling its global railway activ\u00adi\u00adties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-2-2022","category-pilz-magazine","category-railway-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pilz-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}