Schaltbau News June 2007

In 2006, Schaltbau GmbH was awarded the “Grammy” by ABB AG at Ratingen near Düsseldorf for being the best of the company’s top suppliers. Schaltbau was able to meet the high performance requirements last year.

Supplier qualification is gained by the approval of the quality and availability of the components supplied and the price policy being adopted. Further criteria are flexibility and on-time delivery. Here the whole Schaltbau team proved to have performed extremely well in 2006. Thus the supplier award from ABB can be regarded as the customer’s acknowledgement of what a great job the Schaltbau crew are doing in sales and manufacture.

The CVB Series vacuum circuit breaker is used as main switch and protection device of AC driven railway vehicles. It is mostly roof-mounted between the pantograph and the main transformer.

The new CVB Series is designed for breaking high current circuits, and as a cutout to protect against short circuit and overload conditions. It is predominantly used with new locomotives but also as a replacement of existing air circuit and vacuum circuit breakers. In this case the replacement can be accomplished without any modification of the roof top design.

• Flyer with technical details

This year is the first time that Schaltbau took part with its own trade show booth in the 7th International Railway Equipment Exhibition (IREE), held in New Delhi, India, from February 13 - 16, as a side show of the International Engineering & Technology Fair (IETF) at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

Presented at the booth were innovative transportation system components such as master controllers, toggle switch assemblies, contactors and connectors. Schaltbau took its chance to make many interesting new contacts.