Patent ID: 7574289

Claim:
A system for providing rail wheel truing recommendations based on rail wheel measurements comprising: an input device for receiving measured rail wheel dimensions for respective wheels of a rail vehicle; a processor receiving the measured rail wheel dimensions from the input device; a memory in communication with the processor for storing a rule base comprising rules for performing rail wheel truing; logic executable by the processor for accessing the rule base stored in memory, for identifying wheels requiring truing according to the rules in the rule base and the measured rail wheel dimensions, and for making wheel truing recommendations according to the rules in the rule base; and a graphical user interface coupled to the processor, the graphical user interface comprising a wheel condition window for interactively displaying measured wheel dimensions and observed wheel defects for wheels of a rail vehicle and for automatically identifying ones of the wheels exceeding predetermined dimension limits for the wheels, the graphical user interface further comprising a wheel truing window for automatically determining wheel truing recommendations for servicing the wheels of the rail vehicle to bring the identified ones of the wheels within predetermined dimension limits and to maintain the wheels of the rail vehicle within predetermined dimension difference limits among the wheels and for interactively displaying the wheel truing recommendations, wherein the wheel truing window comprises an interactive shim selection section for allowing a user to select and deselect use of a shim and for displaying an effect on a wheel truing recommendation responsive to a shim selection to allow a user to interactively determine a truing scheme among wheels of the rail vehicle.