Briefing 2025/26

Our Fundamental Question

How can vibration data help us find faults faster, more precisely, and before real damage occurs?

In this challenge, we invite makers, engineers, and data-driven innovators to develop a vibration-based diagnostic system for train motor–gearbox units. The goal is to significantly reduce troubleshooting time by automatically identifying defective components based on vibration behavior.

The Challenge

You will work on a solution that:

  • Measures vibrations on motor–gearbox assemblies

  • Detects abnormal behavior when vibrations or noise occur

  • Identifies the faulty component by analyzing vibration frequencies relative to wheel rotation

Your system should support maintenance teams by clearly pointing to the root cause instead of long manual search processes.

What Makes This Interesting

  • Strong signal-processing focus: frequency analysis, patterns, and correlations

  • Real industrial data with direct impact on maintenance efficiency

  • Hardware + software challenge: sensing, algorithms, and system integration

Technical Focus Areas

  • Definition of relative vibration frequencies

  • Automated fault detection and classification

  • Adaptation to different wheel diameters

  • Hardware concept: sensors, processing unit, data transfer to a server

Who Should Join?

  • Makers with a passion for signal processing and sensors

  • Embedded and edge-computing enthusiasts

  • Data analysts who enjoy turning raw signals into insights

  • Teams excited by predictive maintenance and diagnostics

If you like finding hidden patterns in noisy data and building systems that turn vibrations into knowledge, this challenge is for you.

Help make train maintenance smarter, faster, and more precise!

Your contact persons

Marija Wiesinger
ALSTOM
Lean Manager
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Florian Gombotz
ALSTOM
Project Manager
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György Jeney
ALSTOM
Project Manager
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We integrate every dimension of rail into end-to-end solutions that improve availability, reduce total cost of ownership, and adapt to evolving needs and pressures. Our mission is to turn tomorrow's mobility challenges into opportunities that create value through smarter, more sustainable and more resilient rail solutions.

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