Transportail - Colloque véhicules de transport en commun - 18 mai 2008

Colloque véhicules de transport en commun, 18 mai 2006 - Montréal

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Vossloh Kiepe	Hybrid transmission for Buses Mr. Martin Schmitz, Dipl.-Ing. – Division Manager of Vossloh Kiepe GmbH, Dusseldorf/Germany born 1972 in Frankfurt/Main – Germany technical education companies: Vossloh Kiepe GmbH since 1996 in transportation business. Focus: LRV, Electric Buses, Service positions held: Project Manager, Area Sales Manager, Manager Business Development, Division Manager international experience: Europe, USA, Canada, Asia Vossloh Kiepe is one of the leaders in Electrical systems and components for rail vehicles and buses with more than 500 employees operating on a international level. Vossloh Kiepe is a subsidiary of the Vossloh Group, a leader in the rail infrastructure and rail technology markets with 5,900 employees generating sales in the region of €1 billion. Electrical equipment from Kiepe moves vehicles in Austria, Canada, Ecuador, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, the U.S.A., White Russia and Venezuela. Vossloh Kiepe means innovative and competent solutions in the field of traction equipment for electrically driven vehicles. Hence, Vossloh Kiepe has been working on the development of hybrid drives for mass transit vehicles such as diesel-operated buses for quite a long time.
Era-contact	Sophisticated contact systems for trains Dr. Thomas Paral, director of R&D and member of the management team at Era-contact After studying mechanical engineering at the technical University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany he worked for ABB Management consulting. He went back to University of Karlsruhe to graduate in information technology of design and production. During his education he worked in several projects for the railway industry e.g. requirement and functional modelling for freight cars. He received his PhD with his work in the field of integrated methodologies to support the interdisciplinary product design and innovation process. Since 2003, Dr. Thomas Paral is responsible for the development and technology transfer at Era-contact. Era-contact is the globally leading manufacturer of contact systems and electric couplers for railway vehicles and cable assembly for road vehicles. Era-contact produces electric couplers for Locomotives, Metro, Lightrail/tram lines, regional and high speed trains and also electric couplers for quick-change systems. The harnessing and the wiring of components and complete assemblies for railway and utility vehicles and the automotive sector as well supplement our range of products. The production of contact systems and electric couplers is based on more than 80 years of experience. The contact systems, developed by and manufactured at Era-contact, are especially designed for adverse and changing environmental conditions to last 100,000 coupling cycles on these conditions. Era-contact develops and manufactures high-performance products, combining compactness, signal stability and steadiness under load with outstanding quality. The core competences of Era-contact are signal transmission and power transmission from low current signals up to an amperage of 800 A (e.g. connection assembly of UIC-552 type). At the production plants in Germany, China and Tunisia, Era-contact manufactures products for the global market according to ISO TS 16949:2002, thus ensuring quality and customer proximity at the same time.
CG International	Subject : Overview Urban Public Transport in Europe M. Thomas Benz, President of CG International M. Hains-Rainer Quaas, Dipl.ing. – Senior industrial consultant, CG International, Munich/Germany born 1944 in Potsdam/Germany technical and commercial education companies: MBB, Krauss-Maffei, Siemens, M-Bahn, AEG/Adtranz, Schaltbau GmbH, Vossloh Kiepe since 1979 in transportation business. Focus: Locomotives, High Speed Trains, Maglev/Transrapid, People Mover Systems, Monorail, Metro, LRV, Electric Buses, Components & Service positions held: Test-Manager, Project Manager Turn Key, Sales Director, Head of Business Unit, Managing Director, President, Board Member, Member of Railway Organisations, Consultant international experience: Europe, USA, Canada, Near & Middle East, Asia, Africa CG International is an international consulting firm with locations in Munich and Paris and cooperation partners in Italy, Switzerland, Canada and China. CG International specializes in strategic consulting, international business development and economic promotion for industry and government agencies.
FOGTEC	Fire Protection Systems for Rolling Stock Roger – André Dirksmeier, Product Manager Rail Systems, FOGTEC Fire Protection, Cologne, Germany After an education as mechanical car engineer, he studied vehicle engineering at the scientific institute of the university in cologne with a specialisation in railway vehicle design and traction technology. The final diploma “Fire Risk Analyses in Railway Vehicles” was done in the department of fire protection in passenger traffic of Deutsche Bahn AG. In 2001 he changed to FOGTEC Fire Protection to build up the business unit Rail Systems. In 2003 he became a share holder of FOGTEC and in 2006 Rail Systems made 30 % of the complete turn over of the company. Parallel he was working in different research projects like UPTUN (Upgrading of existing tunnels) and the EU-network FIT (Fire in tunnels). He is member of the German normative group for Fire Protection in Rolling Stock and of different working groups of Deutsche Bahn AG, Schweizerische Bundesbahn and the Association of the german railway industry VDB. With its RAIL Systems Team, FOGTEC is one of the leading providers of technical equipment for fire protections solutions for rail vehicles. Its performance portfolio covers complete service packages ranging from consulting services via the supply of components and complete systems to the installation and maintenance of fire protection and detection systems. The FOGTEC product portfolio comprises all important components of fire alarm technology, fire-fighting and marginal and supplementary products in rail-traffic approved design. Included also are those applications that are subject to raised performance standards (e.g safety integrity level).
Hübner	Fire Protection Systems for Rolling Stock M. Uwe Schmelzer, CEO, Hübner GmbH 1973 – 1977 Studies at Technical University Dresden, Institute for Mechanical Engineering, Graduation with thesis about non linear oscillations in power trains 1977 – 1982 Scientific assistant and assistant professor at Technical University Dresden 1983 – 1990 Design engineer and manager in different companies 1991 – 1997 Project manager and team leader for articulation systems for articulation buses in the company HYMER in South Germany 1998 – 2000 Project- and sales manager in the company Hübner GmbH in Kassel, Germany Since 2001 CEO of Hübner Manufacturing Corporation in Mount Pleasant, SC Scientific attainment: Several publications about applications of equipment for public transportation and co-holder of a patent Hübner is a well reputed company headquartered in Kassel (Germany) with worldwide activities in the fields of passageway systems for buses, light rail vehicles, metros and trains, canopies for airplane gangways and flexible covers for different applications. The worldwide sales of the Hübner Group is M€ 219 (2007) with 1600 employees. Hübner Manufacturing Corporation USA, a subsidiary of Hübner Kassel, located near Charleston, S.C., founded in 1995, is responsible for the North American market.

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