{"id":90085,"date":"2024-07-19T19:35:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/?p=54618"},"modified":"2024-07-19T21:26:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T11:26:30","slug":"voiths-e-coupler-selected-as-the-basis-for-digital-automatic-couplers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=90085","title":{"rendered":"Voith\u2019s e-coupler selected as the basis for Digital Automatic Couplers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The FP5-TRANS4M-R steering committee, part of the European DAC Delivery Programme, selected the e-coupler developed by German company Voith to be \u201cthe basis for interface standardization of all digital automatic couplers (DAC)\u201d. The e-coupler is the DAC component that will enable the power supply and data transmission throughout the freight train.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span id=\"more-54618\"><\/span>According to Voith, their coupler can be retrofitted \u201cwith just two screws\u201d, making it low-wear and easy to maintain. Throughout a four-month phase, the e-coupler was tested in FP5-TRANS4M-R, the DAC4EU train and the Voith\u2019s test benches. One of the features of this coupler is that the mechanical and electrical coupling components remain separate. This allows the e-coupler to always be protected at impact speeds of up to 12 km\\h.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"readmore\">\n<div class=\"readmore-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/railfreight\/2024\/04\/12\/dac-digital-automatic-coupling-or-digital-age-conundrum\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/DAC-electrical-contacts-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"readmore-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/railfreight\/2024\/04\/12\/dac-digital-automatic-coupling-or-digital-age-conundrum\/\" class=\"readmore-title\">DAC: Digital Automatic Coupling or Digital Age Conundrum?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<h2>One of many necessary steps<\/h2>\n<p>Selecting an e-coupler is just one of the many steps necessary to ensure a continent-wide deployment of DAC. For example, the various industry players are urging the project leaders to create a comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/technology\/2024\/07\/18\/a-cost-benefit-analysis-for-locomotive-dac-implementation-is-vital\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Cost-Benefit Analysis<\/a> for the DAC migration of locomotives, which is still missing. This leads to uncertainties concerning the real costs of the whole project which, according to some, have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/specials\/2024\/07\/09\/dac-implementation-might-cost-9-times-more-than-expected\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">largely underestimated<\/a>. Another key issue remains funding, with various industry players saying that it should come from the European Union and not be a burden for companies to bear.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"readmore\">\n<div class=\"readmore-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/technology\/2024\/07\/05\/rail-associations-in-central-and-eastern-europe-sound-the-alarm-for-dac\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Digital-Automatic-Coupler-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"readmore-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/technology\/2024\/07\/05\/rail-associations-in-central-and-eastern-europe-sound-the-alarm-for-dac\/\" class=\"readmore-title\">Rail associations in Central and Eastern Europe sound the alarm for DAC<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FP5-TRANS4M-R steering committee, part of the European DAC Delivery Programme, selected the e-coupler developed by German company Voith to be \u201cthe basis for interface\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[377,378,11674,11675,7748,48,10011],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dac","category-digital-automatic-coupling","category-e-coupler","category-european-dac-delivery-programme","category-fp5-trans4m-r","category-technology","category-voith"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90176,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90085\/revisions\/90176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}