TBOGI, truck performance monitoring

WID pioneered the design and development of the TBOGI system, an advanced patented truck performance monitoring tool that overcomes the inherent limitations of traditional contact technologies to enable the characterization of truck defects for a predictive on-performance maintenance policy. Features of the TBOGI include:

• Laser based sensor provides very accurate and precise measurements of wheel set Angle of Attack and Tracking Position.

• Installed on tangent track, no need for special track layout

• Identifies skewed, “warped” and misaligned trucks.

• Identifies trucks with incorrect wheel set tracking that wear their wheels asymmetrically, even before severe wear sets in.

• Non-contact sensors installed at a safe distance from passing trains do not interfere with track maintenance work.

• Demonstrated high reliability record, low cost of ownership.

• Simple to install and maintain.

The patented measurement method embodied in TBOGI provides a wide dynamic range and yields consistent data. TBOGI’s wide dynamic range allows it to identify very subtle truck performance deficiencies while also capturing gross defects. More importantly, consistency of data provided by TBOGI allow users to trend the health of their rolling stock, thereby enabling the scheduling of maintenance interventions to correct impending defects before an exception is raised or other damage is caused.

TBOGI has an excellent record of providing meaningful and actionable information with no false alarms and is widely recognized as the technology of choice for truck performance monitoring