Harting UK Ltd has been supplying backplanes to rail signalling customers for more than 18 years.
This week, you can find Harting at Railtex in Earls Court, London, exhibiting their products and services.
These products lie at the heart of typical signalling systems supplied to rail infrastructure customers across the world.
In addition, the safety critical fibre optic link between the operating and redundant systems of a typical signalling product is, in conjunction with customer design engineers, also realised with Harting components and technology.
The reliability of systems means that its standalone mode is perfectly adequate for most railway availability requirements.
However, systems can also be operated in hot or cold standby modes, with the company’s high speed optical links connecting adjacent sets of interlocking equipment and providing a seamless transfer of control when needed.
State-of-the-art
Over many years, Harting has introduced new press-in termination technology as well as lead-free RoHS components and processes to the product production in order to meet both legislative and commercial market requirements.
In their original design form, backplanes used all solder termination connectors and components.
One side of the board could be flow-soldered; however, the components on the other side were terminated using a hand-solder process which was labour-intensive and the required termination soldering quality levels were extremely demanding.
As a result, solderless press-in connector termination technology was successfully introduced. RoHS compliance has also been achieved by the introduction of lead-free components, wave soldering and surface-mount processes.
The processing power and robust, reliable performance of systems has been proven in demanding conditions from Australia to Norway and from high-intensity metro systems to long distance heavy-haul lines.
Harting has been awarded the IRIS (International Railway Industry Standard) quality certificate for both its ranges of electrical and electronic connectors, together with the design and manufacture of cables, backplanes and associated systems.
Harting will be on stand E115 at Railtex this week.
