Development in Manufacturing of Belted Air Spring

Nowadays, due to increasing environmental regulations, public transport is developing rapidly. Therefore, the companies who manufacture railway fittings have to keep up. As a result, factories need to develop and expand their capacity by modernizing existing machines and installing new machines. The author is involved in this capacity expansion, at ContiTech Hungary Ltd, where production of the rail belted air spring had to be increased. In order to do this, improvements were made to the structure drum to build the carcass, for which two suggestions were made regarding the fold back unit. Other goals are the improvement of the air spring and the development of ergonomics.