InnoTrans 2024 Review

Our Head of Content at Russell Publishing, Ian Betteridge, spoke to Deep Desai, MD for Sensonic India, and Executive Director for Business Development at the company. Deep talked about how the company uses sensors which collect vibration data from fibre optic cabling trackside to detect track trespass, prevent cable theft, warn of landslides or rockfalls and even intruders on the track.

We also spoke to Guillaume Vendroux, DELMIA CEO at Dassault Systèmes, to talk about the pressing challenges in the rail industry, the impact of digitalisation, and the concept of “future mobility”. He also touched on one of the biggest challenges in rail – and something that was a hot topic at Innotrans – the struggle to recruit to fill the “skills gap”.

Editor Elizabeth Jordan met with Benoit Leridon, Transportation Segment Lead, Network Infrastructure, at Nokia to find out about some of their latest innovations they had on their vibrant stand, showing that railways are not only looking at the future. They are also looking at their past. And how Nokia has been assisting for 20 years of innovation by looking at the reality of railway requirements.

Ian and our media team also headed to the stand of Cummins to meet Michael Himmen, managing director for hydrogenics, and Andreas Dammann, Business Manager Rail – EMEA and talk through their latest technologies, both hydrogen and diesel. The team talked through the advantages of hydrogen for specific rail applications, as well as the continuing use and increased efficiency of diesel.

Read each of these interviews here…