POWERVE® portable weighing system for locomotives and rolling stock

The balance of static vertical forces on the wheels is a key factor in ensuring the dynamic stability of the vehicle. Unloaded wheels, especially those on the diagonal of the bogie, significantly reduce the bogie's ability to operate safely on track curvature, leading to derailment.
Multiple wheel unloading incidents may occur due to improper maintenance, abnormal wear/suspension failure, or abnormal wear of the wheel diameter as measured at the wheel height, resulting in a loss of vehicle dynamic performance and affecting safety. Furthermore, based on our field test experience (thanks to numerous demonstrations and weighing tasks completed over the years), vehicle imbalance is often observed even between two major overhaul cycles.
Therefore, the static wheel force distribution should be checked more frequently.

Features
• Excellent performance
• Safety equipment
• Wheel/rail interface
• Unique 'bracket style' design
• Modular and scalable
• Independent gauge
• Wireless operation
• Save time
• User friendly software
• Manual measurement of independent results
• Intelligent cloud platform

But how to increase the frequency of inspections?
A high-performance fixed weighing system is often required, capable of high-precision measurements at the wheel-rail interface and under fully stable equilibrium conditions.
Unfortunately, it is not easy to find a suitable fixed weighing system near the railway. In addition, the expense of moving the rolling stock to an accurate stationary weighing system at a greater distance can be equally significant.
Therefore, in most cases, a test method like this is inherently expensive and challenging to easily and continuously check the vertical force on each wheel.

How can this be translated into sustainable and optimized solutions?
lVM experimented with this and successfully launched PowerveR, the most innovative, hand-held wheel force measurement system.
It can statically measure the vertical force on each wheel and wheel pair of any vehicle type and determine the balance of the vehicle.
With the POWERVER, force measurements can be easily performed anytime, anywhere, preventing the risk of train derailment and improving its operational dynamics.

THE IDEAL SOLUTION FOR
• Testing & Commissioning of new, maintained or modified rolling stock compliant with the EN 15654-2 and EN 50215
• Workshop or in-field maintenance
• Suspension load adjustment to equalize vertical forces on wheels (leveling)
• Reducing derailments risk, especially on twisted track and at low speed
•Verifying the distribution of traction on driving wheels
•Verification of vertical force distribution after installation of new equipment on rolling stock
• Verifying the distribution of the vertical forces due to non-uniform wear of the wheel diameters or faulty suspensions
• Verifying load distribution on cargo railcars
• Post derailment investigations
• Calibration and on-site verification of dynamic weighing systems compliant with the EN 15654-1, according to EN 15654-3