Project Title: Smart Oil Plug; Disruptive Rail Gearbox Condition Monitoring Solution

智能油塞；破坏性轨道齿轮箱状态监测解决方案智能油塞旨在降低变速箱故障的风险，并增加例行维护间隔时间。提高对变速箱状况的信心不仅降低了事故风险，而且旨在显著延长两次大修之间的运行时间和里程。该项目允许扩大由Innovate UK资助的最近开发的技术，将其从最初成功的现场试验，扩展到40个变速箱单元的更大规模的开创性示范试验，并将产品带到完全商业准备状态。智能油塞测量油温、铁屑和变速箱振动，并将这些信息无线传输到全球可访问的门户网站，供利益相关者访问和用于资产管理。该系统可以在需要立即采取行动的情况下部署警报，例如变速箱温度迅速上升、油类碎片突然出现、振动水平显著增加等。在完成之前成功的Innovate UK拨款后，该系统发现，在提供上述参数的同时，现在还提供了大量额外信息，包括整个驱动系统的完整性、车轮扁平检测和在役列车上的铁轨质量监测。

Smart Oil Plug; Disruptive Rail Gearbox Condition Monitoring Solution The Smart Oil Plug is designed to reduce the risk of gearbox failures and increase time between routine maintenance intervals. Improved confidence in gearbox condition not only reduces risks of incidents but it aims to significantly extend running time and mileage between major overhauls. This project allows scaling up a recently developed technology, funded by Innovate UK, to take it from the initial sucessful field trial, to a larger first of a kind pioneering demonstrator trial on 40 gearbox units and to bring the product to full commercial readiness. The Smart Oil Plug measures oil temperature, ferrous debris, and gearbox vibration, and wirelessly transmits this information to a globally accessible portal for stakeholders to access and use for asset management. The system can deploy an alarm in cases when immediate action is required, such as for example rapidly increasing gearbox temperature, sudden onset of oil debris, significantly increased vibration level, etc. Following completion of a previous successful Innovate UK grant it transpired that delivery of the above parameters is now complemented by a significant amount of additional information including integrity of the entire drive system, wheel flat detection and rail track quality monitoring, on in-service trains.