The Smart Shoe™ sensor features 3 levels of brake shoe and wheel tread positioning:
1. Side bars
2. Resilient wing
3. Pyramidal rods
to dramatically enhance the robustness and the unique capacity to accuratly measure the True Radial Brake Shoe Force
The Smart Shoe applications:
1. Brake commissioning /
qualification/compliance test for new rolling stock (AAR S-401, AAR
RP-509, UIC-544-1)
2. Troubleshooting brakes
3. Brakes root cause analysis
4. Auditing current maintenance interventions and overhauls of brakes
5. Quality Assurance of incomming brake parts
6. Verifyng the brakes on new purchased equipment
7. Verifyng equipment brake modifications, upgrades and conversions
8. Testing in place the Tread Brake Units (TBU) capacity of braking
9. Develop and implement cost-effective condition-based maintenance procedures
for brakes