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Barbara BONVISSUTO

Head of Unit "Engineering, Maritime and Rail Industries"

at the European Commission

Chair of the European Commission "Expert Group on the

Competitiveness of the Rail Supply Industry"

Welcome words

Jean VERRIER

Founder of ERCI

President of the jury of the

international ERCI innovation Awards 2020

Welcome words

Jean VERRIER

Founder of ERCI

President of the jury of the

international ERCI innovation Awards 2020

Presentation of ERCI / ERCI 10 years

Dirk-Ulrich KRUEGER

Cluster manager

Rail.S

ERCI Spokesperson

ERCI today / the annual ERCI innovation Awards

ERCI network

• 15 railway clusters covering 17 European countries

• > 2,000 companies (of which 1,500 SMEs) under territorial care, universities, R&D organisations, education institutions, incubators, accelerators, …

“It’s all about bringing customers, suppliers and supply chain opportunities together”

• Shift2Rail Support / Partner matchmaking in R&D projects

• Support for small and medium-sized enterprises

• Annual ERCI Innovation Awards

• ERCI Cybersecurity Taskforce

• Bilateral Workshops

• https://eurailclusters.com

ERCI Innovation Award Winners 2019

The 5th ceremony of the ERCI Innovation Award took place at the Expo

Ferroviaria 2019 in Milan, Italy. © DITECFER

Best large enterprise:

First autonomous tram in the world

Siemens Mobility GmbH (Germany)

Best SME:

Anti-derailing system that monitors real-time tracks, ballasts, overhead lines

and signaling systems of the entire railway network from any train, with precision

measurements much greater than the diagnostic trains

D-Rail AB (Sweden)

Coup de Cœur

“POWERVE” system portable static scale for rolling stock able to determine in

less than ten minutes how the weight-strength of a car is distributed over each

wheel.

IVM Srl (Italy)

ERCI Innovation Award Winners 2018

The 4th ERCI Innovation Award ceremony with Carlo Borghini, CEO of Shift2Rail,

at InnoTrans 2018 © Berlin Partner/photothek

Best large enterprise:

Fully Automated Hump Yard Locomotive – Demonstrator (VAL2020)

DB Cargo AG (Deutschland)

Best SME:

Wireless Sensor Nodes including vibration and temperature sensors, an energy

harvester, a microprocessor and a wireless transmitter

Perpetuum (United Kingdom)

Coup de Cœur

Digital Freight Train

Traxens (Frankreich)

ERCI Innovation Award Winners 2017

The ERCI Innovation Award ceremony with Shift2Rail Executive Director Carlo

Borghini at the TRAKO 2017 in Gdańsk

Best large enterprise:

ODAS – Obstacle Detection Assistance System

Bombardier Transportation

Best SME:

Smart train platforms tiles 4.0

SIUT GmbH (Germany)

Coup de Cœur

Railway Network Asset Inventory

MER MEC S.p.A. (Italy)

ERCI AWARDS

NOMINEES

Nominees

AUSTRIA

AC Styria cluster

By Christian ZWEIGER

Nominees

BOOM SOFTWARE Nominees

Company

Software developer for maintenance and production management

Innovation : « BOOM Rail Solutions »

Software solution for tracking the complete lifecycle for each locomotive, wagon and every other asset within the railway company. It traces the history of all components, puts in measurement values automatically and maintains an overview of all performed and pending tasks.

Advantages : Cost-savings through warehouse optimization and increased availability of vehicles and infrastructure

FRANCE

i-Trans cluster

By Amélie ESPEROU

Nominees

COLAS RAIL Nominees

Company

Leader in the construction and maintenance of transport infrastructures

Innovation : « Ecostop »

“Ecostop” is a logical system developed by the company, which is equipped on a locomotive and enables the diesel engine of the machine to be put on standby and restarted during its parking or waiting phases.

Advantages : fuel savings, reduction in CO2 emissions and better machine operating quality

Nominees DELTA PLASTURGY

Company

Manufacturing of plastic pieces

Innovation : « Hexaflex Seat solution »

“Hexaflex Seat solution” is a comfort coating obtained by injection process of a thermoplastic elastomer.

It allows at least 10 recycling cycles and can replace what is non-recyclable today.

Advantages : Sustainable, hydrophobic, washable and reusable solution, made in Europe

Nominees STRATIFORME INDUSTRIES

Company

Designer and Manufacturer of Composite Materials

Innovation : « DESTINY Train Cab »

“DESTINY Train Cab” is the development of a train cab made of Thermoplastic Composite Materials. The current references are impossible to recycle at the end of their life. The development of this product, meeting railway specifications, will solve this problem

Advantages : the cost, which is perfectly identical to the reference solution, while obtaining a recyclability of the product at the end of its life

GERMANY

Cluster Transport | Mobility | Logistics Berlin-Brandenburg

By Lutz HÜBNER

Nominees

Nominees Deutzer Technische

Kohle GmbHCompany

Market leading measurement service provider for rail basis transportation

Innovation

- DTK measurement system contact wire wear-position-shock (FDS 4.0).

- DTK is the first and only company to be able to measure trainborne theoverhead wire wear based on it´s actual profile.

- This eliminates the measurement failure compared to older measurement techniques which are still used by most of our competitor.

Advantages : network safety / budget efficient maintenances canbe planned beforehand

Nominees LiveEO GmbH

Company

LiveEO brings Earth Observation to enterprise. They use satellite data & AI to keep infrastructures operational.

Innovation

- Satellite-based railway monitoring

- Automatically detect vegetation and ground displacements along railway tracks

Advantages : Increased network availability, increased safety and lower

operational costs

Nominees PROSE GmbH

Company

Independent and employee owned, innovative company for rail-vehicle

engineering with 200 employees at 9 offices in different European countries.

Innovation

Conversion of an existing diesel multiple-unit into a train with three modes of operation

(electric traction from catenary or from battery and diesel-electric driving with recovery and storage of braking

energy).

Advantages : Use of existing vehicles through cost-effective conversion without usage restrictions, immediate

reduction of emissions, possibility of locally emission-free, low-noise operation without adjustments to the

railway infrastructure.

Partners▪ Technische Universität Berlin, Chair of Rail Vehicles

▪ FWM Fahrzeugwerke Miraustrasse GmbH

▪ Rieckenberg International Railway Technology Consulting

▪ k+v Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH

GERMANY

Bavaria’s Railway Technology Cluster (CNA)

By Tobias PETSCHELT

Nominees

Nominees FRAUNHOFER IIS / VAG / FAU

Company

Cooperation of FAU University of Erlangen, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and VAG, the Nuremberg Transport Company

Innovation : « A planning software for energy-efficient timetable design »

The planning software allows timetable planners the optimal adjustment of a timetable draft to increase the energy-efficiency of the resulting railway traffic by reducing maximum peak power consumption, synchronizing departures and arrivals for optimized recuperation and optimizingthe driving behaviour for more efficiency.

Advantages : Saving up to 10% of general and peak energy consumption with

minimal changes in timetables which are almost unnoticeable for

passengers

GERMANY

Rail.S cluster

By Dirk-Ulrich KRUEGER

Nominees

Nominees CG RAIL

Company

Leading research and development company in the field of innovative lightweight solutions in multi-material design for rolling stock and other traffic systems

Innovation : « lightweight bogie frame »

CG Rail developed a novel lightweight bogie frame, which is fully made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) and offers a weight reduction of nearly 50 %. The single CFRP-components of the frame are produced by highly automated and very cost-efficient manufacturing technologies according to Industry 4.0 approach. The bogie frame has been successfully tested over 12 million load cycles according to DIN EN 13749.

Advantages : higher energy efficiency, improved acoustic behavior, possibility of

sensor integration for condition-based maintenance.

Nominees PHOTON MEISSENER

TECHNOLOGIES GmbH

Company

Engineering and production from products of railway technology, housing and distribution technology

Innovation : « Elektrant smart ID-PMT »

“Elektrant smart ID-PMT” powers rail vehicles on track or freight depots smart with energy. In conjunction with an electronic billing system, the smart ID is used for user-dependent energy consumption recording and billing.

Advantages : smart energy supply for parked trains on DB AG railway systems,

reduction of CO2 emissions, integrated protection against

unauthorized removal of electricity

Nominees RCS GmbH

Company

Railway industry supplier : Manufacturer of interior and exterior GFRP components and electrical and pneumatic systems

Innovation : « lima – lightweight front masks »

“lima” – Manufacturing process of glass fibre reinforced plastic(GFRP) parts to fulfil a broad range of essential railway requirements in the first place (e.g. Fire, Smoke and Toxicity, mechanical and acoustic requirements). Focus lies on large-scale components (e.g. front masks / cabs).

Advantages : fast, scalable and cost-optimized production of high-quality GRP

large components, helps to maintain production in a high-cost

country with demographic shift

ITALY

Ditecfer cluster

By Veronica Elena BOCCI

Nominees

Nominees DIPSA TECHNES

Company

Production of wagons and special machines for construction and maintenance of railway track and overhead lines

Innovation : « Iceguard »

The innovation aims to prevent the ice formation during the winter thanks to a mobile defrost gun spraying a special biodegradable oil on the contact wire of the overhead line without touching it, and for this it can operate with rain and snow conditions up to 50 km/h.

Advantages : more railway capacity, more safety, less disruptions costs,

less maintenance costs

Nominees LUCCHINI RS

Company

Leader in the engineering and production of rolling and forged railway products

Innovation : « Smartset »

The innovation optimises the wheelset Nondestructive Testing (NDT) inspection intervals for a railway fleet based on the actual service conditions, thanks to miniaturized telemetry module embedded on the axle body, that continuously measures the bending and torsion stresses.

Advantages : end of unnecessary or late inspections, more safety, more availability of fleets, less overall costs

Nominees RAIL CARGO CARRIER ITALY

Company

Rail freight transport operator

Innovation : « Rail Cargo Augmented Inspector, powered by Space1 »

The innovation is the first-ever application combining Augmented Reality, big data, automated reporting, machine learning and IoT technologies to train inspection, a rail process still heavily paper-based, not standardized, not integrated into ERPs and with critical safety aspects.

Advantages : more efficiency and quality of inspections, more safety, less costs for working hours

POLAND

Cluster Poludniowy Klaster Kolejowy

By Marek JABLONSKI

Nominees

Nominees SIMKOL

Company

Polish manufacturer of simulators and software for the railway

Innovation : « The modern simulator of Locomotive „DRAGON 2” »

The modern symulator of „DRAGON 2” locomotive created by our company is the most innovative solution of this kind in Poland. For the first time “SimRail” simulation software of our production was used in the simulator which is characterised by the highest quality of graphics among avaible ones on the polish market. Surroundings of railway lines presented in our virtual reality are mapped and generated by artificial intelligence based on surveing data from state resources.

Advantages : Automatically terrain profiles, vegetation roads, watercourses and reservoirs, power lines, buildings with structures continuously generated. Performed entire railway infractructure designed with the highest precision : railway tracks, overhead trolley wires, engineering structures, railway stations and Switch towers which improves photorealistic effect of surroundings.

These factors increase training comfort of participants resulting in higher effectiveness of training.

SPAIN

Railgrup cluster

By Ignasi GOMEZ-BELINCHON

Nominees

Nominees MOSAIC FACTOR

Company

Mosaic Factor is specialized in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for mobility and logistics. Know the context, understand the problem and familiarize with the data to find the right answers and extract real value.

Innovation : « Multimodal Inland Planner »

“The Multimodal Inland Planner (MIP) aims to increase the share of more sustainable transport modes, promotes the consolidation of freight flows and cargo bundling for efficient transportation by rail and barge, while taking advantage of the efficiency of local delivery by truck by using Big Data as a tool for Multimodal Planner Design”.

Advantages : The innovation is 100% in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the European Green Deal which fights against climate change and environmental degradation. The main goal of the innovation is to achieve a transportation shift from

truck to more sustainable transportation modes such as rail and inland waterways by a multimodal strategy including rail.

Nominees SENER

Company

Private engineering and technology group founded in 1956 which is a premier provider of innovative and high-quality solutions in the areas of industry : Aeroespacial , Infrastructure, Energy and Marine sectors and Renewable Investments

Innovation : « RESPIRA »

“A Smart ventilation control System for underground transportation. Check environmental conditions inside the station (temperature, humidity and air quality) in real time and predictions for the next 72hours”.

Advantages : Improve the environmental conditions in the stations together with Improve equipment availability and Improve maintenance work and Efficiently manage the electricity consumption of the line

TURKEY

Arus cluster

By Ilhami PEKTAS

Nominees

Nominees ASELSAN

Company

Company offers smart, efficient, safe and reliable solutions in the areas of; traction and power distribution, train control and management, mainline and urban signaling.

Innovation : « MIDAS-R »

“MIDAS-R” is based on fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) technology to collect acoustic data and analyses it in order to detect intrusions on the railway and to detect anomalies on both railway and the train.

Advantages : train tracking, railway security and asset condition monitoring.

Nominees ENEKOM

Company

Engineering company, involving in research, development and engineering activities on the technologies supporting the sustainable life concept.

Innovation : « Railacoustic – Broken and Fractured Rail Detection System »

“Railacoustic – Broken and Fractured Rail Detection System” detects small and big rail faults from a distance of 2 Km with an accurate location information without any misleading information before train comes, automatically and precisely

Advantages : Avoiding broken rail related train accidents.

Nominees KARDEMIR

Company

Turkey’s first integrated iron and steel factory. Manufacturing of railway rails, wheels, springs and high quality fastener materials.

Innovation : « Rail Head Hardening Plant »

“Rail Head Hardening Plant” is hardening rail heads and rail bases of 72 meters long railway rails produced in Kardemir within online process of installed rail hardening unit sprays water air mixture.

Advantages : 72 meters long R350HT rails can be produced with homogeneousmetallurgical, mechanical, surface and hardness properties.

RESULTS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Barbara BONVISSUTO

Head of Unit "Engineering, Maritime and Rail Industries" at

the European Commission

Chair of the European Commission "Expert Group on the

Competitiveness of the Rail Supply Industry"

Results announcement :

BEST SME

CG RAIL

from Germany (Rail.S cluster)

with the innovation

« Lightweight bogie frame »

Best SME winner!

Presentation of

CG RAIL and the innovation

« Lightweight bogie frame »

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas ULBRICHT

Managing Director

Lutz HÜBNER

Senior Project Manager Transport | Mobility | Logistics

Berlin Partner für Wirtschaft und Technologie GmbH

Results announcement :

BEST LARGE COMPANY

ASELSAN

from Turkey

with the innovation « MIDAS-R »

Best large company winner!

Presentation of

ASELSAN and the innovation

“MIDAS-R”

By Onder ALTAN, Project Manager

Veronica Elena BOCCI

Cluster Coordinator

Ditecfer

Results announcement:

COUP DE COEUR OF THE JURY

ENEKOM

from Turkey

with the innovation

« RAILACOUSTIC »

Coup de coeur of the jury!

Presentation of

ENEKOM and the innovation

“RAILACOUSTIC”

By Haluk GOKMEN, Chief Technical Officer

ERCI news, coming events

Dirk-Ulrich KRUEGER

Cluster manager

Rail.S

ERCI Spokesperson

InnoTrans Business Days➢ 22nd September 2020 – 30th April 2021

➢ ongoing activity starting by 22 September and ending by InnoTrans 2021

Rail Live! 2020 ➢ 30th November 2020 – 2nd December 2020

➢ Online Event

6th ERCI Cybersecurity in Railways Task Force Meeting➢ 9th March 2021

➢ Leipzig

InnoTrans 2021➢ 27th – 30 April 2021

➢ Berlin

Rail Live 2021➢ 16th – 17th June 2021

➢ Quinton Rail Technology Centre, Warwickshire (UK)

Upcoming Events

Next ERCI Online Workshop

IoT Wireless Monitoring in the Rail Industry

Thursday, 8 October 2020 | 17:00 UTC+2Please join us: www.eurailclusters.com

Veronica Elena BOCCI

Cluster Coordinator

Ditecfer

Launch of the "EXXTRA ClusterXchange”

http://exxtraproject.eu

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Head of Unit "Engineering, Maritime and Rail Industries" at

the European Commission

Chair of the European Commission "Expert Group on the

Competitiveness of the Rail Supply Industry"

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Barbara BONVISSUTO

Head of Unit "Engineering, Maritime and Rail Industries"

at the European Commission

Chair of the European Commission "Expert Group on the

Competitiveness of the Rail Supply Industry"

Ceremony closing

Jean VERRIER

Founder of ERCI

President of the jury of the

international ERCI innovation Awards 2020

Ceremony closing

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