Ride Comfort

Donfabs & Consillia provide vehicle ride comfort monitoring solutions, that are proven and in use worldwide.

Our equipment is designed and built to the highest standards, with bespoke filtering and bandwidth, to provide accurate data acquisition.

Data captured during a journey is stored in a dedicated database structure and accessed through our easy to use and interpret software.



Donfabs & Consillia provide vehicle ride comfort monitoring solutions that are used throughout the world. The Company's range of stand alone, portable systems provide an easy solution to on board, in service monitoring requirements including type testing, fault testing and condition based monitoring. Both attended and unattended systems can be supplied for measuring ride comfort, vehicle vibration and dynamics.

We supply a range of stand alone, portable, vehicle performance systems which provide an easy solution to on board, in service monitoring requirements including type testing, fault testing and condition based monitoring. Both attended and unattended systems can be supplied for measuring ride comfort, vehicle vibration and dynamics. Data can be stored for up to 24 hours and if a speed signal is available this can be recorded to provide a full journey profile of measurement data against a distance base.

To support these systems, we have developed our own Vehicle Track Analysis Software – VisiRail. This package, designed to handle all types of data collected from the company’s range of vehicle ride and track geometry equipment, provides detailed analysis and reporting functions and with the addition of plug-in modules allows VisiRail to be personalised to a specific vehicle, or track. It is a fully flexible analysis solution. Developed and adaptable to meet with rail industry analytical needs.

Macminder - Ride Comfort Monitoring

The Macminder system is an unattended method of monitoring vehicle ride performance and track conditions on-board in-service trains eliminating the need for track possession.Designed to operate…

VisiRail v2.0 - Ride Comfort Software

When used with the Macminder, VisiRAIL provides consistent data detailing current status, parameter screening and predictive maintenance.