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