INNOVATIVE. INDEPENDENT. IMPASSIONED.

Electric motors, generators and gears for rail cars. “20 years ago, people thought that the electric motor had reached its limit. But technological development never comes to an end.”

page 3 Bombardier TRAXX™ DE Solaris Trollino Vossloh Citylink Metrostyle Karlsruhe

Operators and manufacturers of rail cars don’t The challenges of cutting-edge electromobility Traktionssysteme is rising to these challenges. in the rail car market are huge. At the same time, We are specialists for traction motors and traction need isolated innovative leaps. What they need vehicle manufacturers and component suppliers drives – technological leaders, independent and have less and less room to maneuver. impassioned. That makes us a perfect partner for is a consistent technological advantage. operators and manufacturers of rail cars over the It is continually necessary to optimize the performance, entire product life cycle. durability and compactness of the propulsion systems – without affecting price and availability. At the same time, however, the solutions have to be more and more individual: even for minimum quantities the market demands custom-designed special solutions and, as the supplier, it is imperative to respond as flexibly as possible.

page 4 page 5 Others would rather wait for the future of electromobility. We’re pushing it forward.

Traktionssysteme Austria is an Austrian company Independent. Impassioned. based in a location with a long tradition. Reliable As an independent specialist, we are the only We are passionate about traction drives. We put and highly efficient traction drives which are in use company in the market which supplies purely traction everything into becoming better and better – on every continent in the world have been produced systems and is free from any corporate interests. As starting with development, production and testing in the former Brown Boveri plant in Wiener Neudorf a result, we can concentrate at all times on what is in-house and extending to a service which redefines for over 50 years. important: the consistent enhancement of our drive standards in the market. We take care of things solutions. In our company, the customer speaks personally and in our work we place great emphasis It is the following three success factors that distinguish directly to the owner and this in turn guarantees that on encouraging close cooperation between university us as a full-range supplier and provide our customers important decisions are made when the time is right. research and industrial practice. with a permanent technological advantage: This enables us to cope even with difficult situations. Innovative. And that is something we do really well. Based on our extensive know-how and our worldwide expertise, we were the first in the market to combine motor and gears into a perfectly functioning unit. The result is that we supply our customers in the rail car market with the very heart of electromobility from a single source. Simply give us your specifications – we will use them to build the best customized solution.

INNOVATIVE

IMPASSIONED INDEPENDENT

page 7 It’s possible to source motors and gears from Our product portfolio includes liquid and air-cooled The quality and safety of our products and the traction motors, traction generators and traction protection of our employees and the environment different places. Or to get them from us gears for all uses of rail-borne and road-borne, are paramount in all our activities. This basic principle electric vehicles. We have also expanded our is an important pillar of our corporate guidelines. as one perfectly functioning unit. range of services by synchronous machines with We improve our workflows by efficiently monitoring permanent magnets. We will develop traction drives and controlling our measured variables and the specifically for your requirements and also accept information gained from them. Similarly, we also responsibility for the complete unit – comprising subject the quality management system to constant motor and gears. and critical assessment and expansion which we document by certification in accordance with the International Railway Industry Standard (IRIS).

The result of this work is always a compact made-to- measure solution which represents maximum energy efficiency, high power density and maximum service life.

Traction drive PESA ELF, SKM Traction motor Solaris Tramino, Jena Traction generator Stadler GTW Traction gears Stadler GTW+, Russia

page 8 page 9 The next generation should benefit Due to many years of experience in the production Ongoing training courses for our employees in of traction drives, our employees are the all relevant areas are therefore an integral part of from our knowledge. And from our element in our corporate activities. We are our HR management. It is only this strong base convinced that only our employees’ skills, which that enables us to pass on our experience, our enthusiasm. are the result of a complete vertical integration of know-how and our enthusiasm for electromobility motors and gears, give vehicle manufacturers and to a young and highly motivated generation. operators the certainty of knowing that they are guaranteed to get the quality they expect.

page 11 We don’t have to buy in any skills for our business. We have them all in-house.

Consultancy

Thanks to our outstanding system skills and independence as the only company which supplies purely traction systems, we are there to assist our customers with objective advice and clear-cut opinions. Vehicle Service manufacturers benefit from significant performance improvements even during the bid phase and vehicle operators benefit from the optimum drive solution throughout the entire product life cycle. Our company’s added value chain is completed by maintenance and repair of the drives that we have built. Intelligent maintenance and service concepts with spare parts management, guaranteed lead times and diagnostic reports about the drive’s technical condition: this is our idea of a comprehensive after-sales service over the entire product life cycle. Development

Our team for product development and design engineering works within a network of acknowledged experts with decades of experience in the technology of traction motors. We develop solutions to meet your specific requirements. Our customers’ desire for a holistic Production approach which encompasses both electrical and mechanical criteria is always paramount during this process. While at the same time, All the essential production steps for the manufacture of we optimize the requirements for the product-specific lifetime, our products take place in our production facility. One of our ease of maintenance and life cycle costs. key areas in technical production is the mechanical machining of the traction drive’s components. CNC-controlled machining equipment enables us to machine large complex parts. However, we also have access to all types of conventional fabrication processes, such as are necessary for the construction of prototypes, enabling us to meet our customers’ every requirement. Quality inspection

As a full-range supplier of traction drives, we have all the testing equipment that is necessary for ensuring that quality assurance requirements are met. This means, for example, that cutting-edge equipment is used in the three-dimensional determination of geometrically complex components. Function and performance tests on motors and gears as well as sound and vibration measurements ensure that our drives comply with all structural and production requirements.

page 12 page 13 TRASYS Beteiligungs- und Management GmbH

Traktionssysteme ELIN Motoren GmbH Austria GmbH

Suzlon Generators Ltd. Medha Traction Equipment Ltd. Traction Systems Inc. (Pune, India) (Hyderabad, India) (Somerville, NJ/USA) Joint Venture Joint Venture

Traktionssysteme Bosnia d.o.o. (Tuzla, BiH)

Our contribution to worldwide electromobility We operate globally and move rail cars and buses all Thanks to global corporate structures, intelligently over the world. The technology of Traktionssysteme coordinated logistics and a mobile service team, over the past ten years: 25,000 motors with Austria is being used successfully on every we are always close to our customers and can continent. Around 25,000 motors produced by provide them with comprehensive support. Wherever the output of around 20 power plants. Traktionssysteme Austria have been commissioned your requirements may be: we think and act globally. in the last ten years alone. This corresponds to a Innovative. Independent. Impassioned. These total output of approximately 20 power plants. This key elements always signify quality and technical is our contribution to making electric mobility more advantage in the rail cars and buses of this world. efficient, more reliable and more powerful.

CAF Push-Pull-Unit SAR, Saudi Arabia Stadler FLIRT NSB, CAF Metro Brussels,

page 14 page 15 Traktionssysteme Austria GmbH Brown-Boveri-Strasse 1 2351 Wiener Neudorf, Austria phone: +43 (0)2236 8118-0 fax: +43 (0)2236 8118-237 email: [email protected] TSA – Traktionssysteme Austria

www.tsa.at

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