Marais Consulting Engineers - Railway Engineering

Marais Consulting Engineers (MCE) provides expertise in railway rolling stock components such as:
[1] Railway wheelset components
[2] Railway drawgear components
[3] Brake system mechanical components
[4] Bogie components
[5] Gears and traction drive train components
[6] Bearings
[7] Bearing and drive train lubrication.

As far as rail infrastructure is concerned expertise is provided on the following:
[1] Rails
[2] Rail welding process (joining and repair welding)
[3] General track components.

Services provided include:
[1] Failure and performance evaluation including root cause analysis
[2] Specifications for manufacture and acceptance testing of components
[3] Manufacturing, materials and design (to some extent)
[4] Repair and maintenance processes and specifications
[5] Maintenance interval optimisation and total maintenance cost reduction
[6] Technical evaluation
[7] Technical audit of manufacturing facilities for approval of manufacturer to make components
[8] Condition monitoring of components and sub-systems
[9] Analysis of condition data to provide trending and predictive condition reporting (deterioration rates) including alarm levels, planned component replacements and total maintenance cost reduction