News and press releases

The Power of Digitalisation in Track Equipment Maintenance

The digital monitoring of track equipment makes it possible to carry out maintenance before a defect causes traffic disruption. There is increasing interest in the potential of condition monitoring to support railway asset management and maintenance.

8. September 2022 Articles Services Digi Customer

Data and Maintenance of Rolling Stock – How to Get the Most Out of the Combination

Digitalisation is strongly making its way to the maintenance of rolling stock and railway infrastructure. Amidst all the hype, it is worth remembering that collecting data is only one part, the essential thing is to understand how to use it.

1. September 2022 Articles Digi Services

Delivery reliability for the customers’ project deliveries was provided by the development of project management

VR FleetCare aims to seek growth from the modernisation projects of the rail fleet. To achieve our goals, well-designed and executed projects are extremely important to us and our customers. Implementing projects competitively is also challenging and risky without an appropriate project managem...

11. May 2022 Articles News and press releases Responsibility Customer

Overhaul of metro trains improves travel comfort - VR FleetCare carries out the modernisation

Helsinki City Transport will carry out overhaul and modernisation on all of its metro trains in the M100 and M200 series. Overhauls have begun on the M100 series trains. The first two metro trains have already undergone overhaul and they returned to passenger service in November. VR FleetCare i...

23. November 2020 Articles Services Responsibility Customer

New Finnish technology produces real-time information on switch performance – promising pilot project results

Railway switches play a crucial role in smooth train traffic – any faults in the switches cause traffic disruptions. A significant share of all railway network maintenance costs originates from switch maintenance. Finland has successfully tested a new IoT system for monitoring and analysing the...

21. October 2020 Articles Services Digi

Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency and VR FleetCare test new technology to reduce disruptions to railway traffic

Switches play a key role in ensuring smooth railway operations. A switch is used at a railway junction to steer trains from one track to another. Last year, switch failures caused over 5,000 disruptions to traffic in Finland. To enhance the monitoring of the condition of switches, VR FleetCare,...

20. January 2020 Articles Topical Services Digi Customer