All our clients are unique and special. But if one company has marked the almost four decades of Triple E’s history in safety electronics, it is CAF, with whom we first entered the exciting railway sector 28 years ago.
Our first projects for CAF
Back in 1994, CAF chose us to protect the vehicles destined for its Hungarian project. It thus offered us the challenge of progressing further towards the concept of safety, which includes all types of disasters (not only intentional disasters, as in security). And it was with great enthusiasm and responsibility that we set out to design an electronic system to protect a fleet of trains. We could not fail: CAF is a world leader in the railway industry and has a well-earned reputation as a reliable and robust company.
Thus, when we started working with CAF, we did so as suppliers of electronic control panels. Moreover, it was with CAF that we took a further step in our conversion to a global integrator, introducing railway extinguishing systems into our portfolio. Once again, our experience in extinguishing critical building enclosures was our basis for meeting the challenge.
More collaborations
Likewise, both CAF and its investee companies have relied on Triple E for after-sales and maintenance work. In this line, the Madrid Metro project is a clear example of collaboration with CAF to implement hydraulic extinguishing equipment and its subsequent maintenance.
Since 1994, we have developed more than forty projects for CAF. Among them, not only trains manufactured for RENFE, but also for operators all over the world. Thanks to the growth we have experienced, both with this large company and with other clients, we have become leading integrators of complete subsystems, offering comprehensive solutions (detection, extinguishing…).
A process of continued growth
Over these almost thirty years, Triple E has grown and matured along with CAF. Like the entire sector, both companies have evolved from mechanical technologies to electronic-based solutions. We are immersed in a continuous digitalisation process.
In this process of joint maturation, we are happy to upgrade older fleets (retrofit) produced by CAF in the past and equip them with the most modern and reliable fire protection systems to ensure the safety of people and equipment.
Upcoming projects for CAF
We have recently signed a contract with CAF to protect the units being manufactured for operation in Essen, Germany. The equipment will be digital and will have the strict SIL2 safety certificate. Those first analogue control panels that were installed in Hungary have evolved without losing the ideal characteristics of mechanical activation by means of relays. However, the cyber-secure digitisation being designed in the CAF Essen project has not lost the independence and redundancy offered by analogue equipment, as it does not eliminate the equipment’s relays, but rather complements them with the intelligence provided by digital technology, thanks to the intelligence and capacity for real-time information exchange provided by the software.