Automation in tunneling is crucial especially in times of lack of qualified staff and operators.

Our experience in turning innovations into operational success in Tunneling goes back to 1992 with the world’s first Tunnel Boring Machine fully controlled from above ground. This way today it would be possible at much less effort to teleoperate a number of TBM's from a central control room on a big construction site or even from central remote offices.

Today, our expertise is applied to any kind of mobile automation and digitalization solutions in mining and tunneling:

• • Fully electronic machine operation incl. Steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire
• • Design and dimensioning of high voltage electric traction systems
• • Assistance systems for driving and work functions
• • Teleoperation of multiple machines from a single remote work station
• • Autonomy systems for driverless machine operation
• • Wireless communications

We are the inventors and patented technology providers for tunnel supply trains using fully electronic and highly accurate "track-in-track" operation of multiple vehicles mechanically coupled to each other. These vehicles run like on a "virtual rail". During six years of operation the vehicles of the first project fully electronically controlled ("all-by-wire") transport trains were safely completing over 250.000 km! Thanks to their functional safe design operating at speed up to 30km/h and on a 2,5 km long 12% downhill slope without a single safety relevant incident!