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Casting of railway sleepers goes like clockwork<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bengt Johansson and his colleagues at Sateba, a manufacturer of concrete grinders for railroad tracks, have been using two Celsicom TC603s for a year to monitor the strength of castings. Bengt’s verdict on these yellow “concrete computers”: a very affordable and simple measurement solution with impressive battery life and unbeatable reliability.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Our previous system for measuring strength worked in much the same way, but was much more cumbersome. With Celsicom Easy Connect, everything is much easier and we save a lot of time on administration,” says Bengt Johansson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

European concrete grinder manufacturer Sateba has two production units in Sweden. One in L\u00e5ngviksmon just north of \u00d6rnsk\u00f6ldsvik and the other in Kungs\u00f6r west of Eskilstuna. The total annual production for L\u00e5ngviksmon and Kungs\u00f6r is around 240,000 concrete sleepers. Two main types of sleepers are produced: 2.5 meter long and 257 kg heavy line sleepers for railway rails around the country and sleepers for metro and tramways. The size of these sleepers varies between 2.10-2.75 meters and 150-190 kilograms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

-There is a constant need for concrete grinders to continuously maintain train tracks across the country. Most often, this involves replacing wood grinders that are approaching the end of their 20-year lifespan. However, occasionally older concrete sleepers need to be replaced (the technical lifetime of these sleepers is about 50 years).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bengt Johansson is Factory Quality & Environmental Manager for the production units in L\u00e5ngviksmon and Kungs\u00f6r. It is at the L\u00e5ngsviksmon site that Celsicom Easy Connect is used in the daily production of 432 sleepers. These are made in molds with space for casting 24 2.5 meter long sleepers that are cast together in 10 meter lengths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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