EMEF - Railway Vehicle Repair, Maintenance, Reconditioning, and Construction

EMEF-Empresa de Manutenção de Equipamento Ferroviário, S.A., is the main Portuguese Company in the Railway Maintenance Sector and develops it`s activity in five main fields:

• Maintenance, repair and refurbishment processes - on railway rolling stock material and equipment
• Preventive and corrective maintenance
• Build-up, rehearsal and commissioning
• Freight wagon design and manufacturing
• Innovation

EMEF has been Quality Management System certified since 2000, currently in accordance with EN ISO 9001:2008 standard, covering our global activity, carried out in all of our workshops and central services.

Maintenance, repair and refurbishment

A wide experience in the sector of maintenance of the rolling stock fleet of CP-Comboios de Portugal - diesel as well as electrical - allows EMEF to develop the best solution for the maintenance of any type of rolling stock:

• Preventive maintenance
• Corrective maintenance
• Emergency interventions

We also undertake implementation of the RCM reliability centered maintenance (RCM) methodology in the CPA400 trains (Pendolinos) and in other rolling stock material.

Freight wagon`s design and manufacturing

A wide experience in the sector of the freight wagon`s design and manufacturing, as well as, a set of technical and operational solutions make EMEF able to supply “turn-key” solutions, by having the following abilities:

• Engineering design in accordance with customer needs
• Production with high-level quality standards
• Static and dynamic tests - TSI procedures and requirements
• Supply

Railway innovation

We also offer the following services:

• Innovation in the Railways business with real, customer tailored and successfully tested field applications
• University / industry interface experience applied to real problem solving
• Active participation with railways experience in Framework European Projects (FP7)
• New railways maintenance technologies for optimized rolling stock life-cycle cost
• Condition-based maintenance – telemaintenance – reliability centered maintenance with TRAINix © solution. Technology applied to existing and new rolling stock material
• Remote energy metering system for energy efficiency ecodriving solutions
• Wireless on-board CCTV and wireless video transmission to distributed ground datacenters
• Power electronics project and repair expertise
• Railways re-engineering projects for alternative solutions in automation and electronics systems according to operation specific needs
• Railways Telemaintenance TRAINix© and electronic loogbook eDTB© patents by EMEF Innovation Unit – UITF