NEXSYS IIIi
An advanced locomotive control system designed to enhance the efficiency, reliability, and lifespan of your fleet. By integrating cutting-edge technology with proven solutions, NEXSYS IIIi helps you optimize performance, reduce costs, and stay ahead in the rail industry.
Why NEXSYS?
- Enhanced Propulsion Efficiency: Improve tractive effort and adhesion by up to 44%.
- Significant Cost Savings: Save over $30,000 annually per locomotive
- Human-Machine Interface (HMI): Easy to read on-board diagnostic display
- Advanced Control: 24/7 remote monitoring with real-time data access
- Extended Locomotive Life: Minimize mechanical stress, optimize every journey.
This microprocessor-based locomotive control system features a reliable and compact design, increased locomotive adhesion, advanced control options and integrated AESS technology that will significantly extend the life of your locomotive.
Features & Benefits
Integrated Locomotive Display (ILD)
The NEXSYS ILD has numerous digital indicators, graphical displays and alerts to increase safety, reliability and operational efficiency. These include the advanced alerter function, digital gauges and speedometer, graphical alarms, digital status icons for various features, communication with the HOTD, advanced diagnostics, digital over speed warnings, train length counter and more.
Remote Monitoring Platform
24/7 access to near real-time data from all NEXSYS-equipped locomotives. The ZTR remote monitoring portal is used to:
- Collect data for fleet health, fuel consumption, emissions, utilization, propulsion & control and starting performance.
- Export data, trending, locations, location breadcrumbs, geofencing, alerts, reporting, dashboards and more.
- KickStart equipped locomotives could also be added to the remote monitoring platform.
Onboard Diagnostics
Your locomotives personal assistant, monitoring performance and reporting parameters. It monitors and shows information about:
- System health status
- Output-test and advanced diagnostics
- Automated Contactor Test, Load Test
- Troubleshooting information
- Brief reports (detailed fuel savings, duty cycle, event logger etc.)
- Crew messages
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Case Studies
Improving Fleet Availability
Locomotive availability is defined as the percentage of time in service to overall time. So if a locomotive is in service 8/10 days, with the other 2 days out of service (shop time, broken down etc.) the availability is 80%.
In this study, we found one major railroad increased availability from 91 to 94% on an aging fleet of low horsepower locomotives. This is an operating cost reduction of $5.5M/year on a 1,000-unit fleet.
In this study key performance improvements were achieved through:
- Remote monitoring providing advanced warning on maintenance
- Reduced maintenance delays by avoiding sourcing old relays
- Reduced DWS with saver and improved battery charging control
DC Traction Motors Replacement
NEXSYS provides protection in the form of voltage and current regulation for rotating equipment such as traction motors. In this study we had a customer had a very high traction motors failure rate, flashovers, thermal damage, commutator damage. When they installed the system with Traction Motor protection, there was a 90% reduction in the failure rate.
In one of their worst years prior to NEXSYS they had close to 1000 motors changeouts. Considering $20,000 as the cost of one traction motor replacement, we can see the savings would be in the range of $18M annual savings in traction motors changeout.
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