Innovation

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Wabtec is spinning up the future of transit braking technology at the company’s location in Piossasco, Italy. The site features a colossal yellow wheel capable of rotating at speeds up to 160 km/h (99.4 m/h).

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One reason freight rail holds so many measurable advantages over competing logistics modes is the strong innovation engine behind it, one powered by Wabtec for more than 150 years. Ongoing advances in engine efficiency, renewable fuel use, remanufacturing, braking, and controls, electrification, and other areas pioneered and honed by Wabtec continue to translate into measurable gains for its customers and the industry at large.

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Gen-3 CAS Features Predictive Curved-Beam Breakthrough and Contextual Alert Innovation Playing with the “big” boys While spot prices of metal and mineral commodities ebb and flow according to supply and demand, the combined market capitalization of the world’s top 50 mining companies remains massive, approaching $1.5 trillion in Q2 2024 (source: Mining.com).

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Wabtec’s products and services have delivered value throughout our over 150-year history, and we continue to identify new opportunities for improvement.

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Introduction: More than cybersecurity mandates Long before the TSA issued Security Directive 1580/82-2022-01 to help reduce risks posed by cybersecurity threats on critical rail operations, rail operators proactively banded together to form the Rail Information Security Committee (RISC) and tackle cybersecurity concerns as an industry.

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Wabtec has long worked to meaningfully impact the communities in which it works and operates through its “Caring for Our Communities” program. The company, in collaboration with STEM Learning, took another step last week to further that mission with the inauguration of a STEM Science Center at Karnataka Public School located in Dodda Banaswadi.

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Engineering is a profession that has traditionally been male-dominated. In fact, men outnumber women in the global engineering workforce 86.3% to 13.7% (Source: Fictiv). But for innovation to thrive, it requires a diverse, mission-driven culture where engineers from various backgrounds collaborate to solve the world’s biggest challenges.