Predge
Predge is a Swedish supplier of predictive maintenance software for railway rolling stock and infrastructure, headquartered in Luleå and delivering decision support through modular software-as-a-service products.
Founded in 2013 with roots in academia, the company employs approximately 16 people according to its most recent annual accounts. Its registered parent is Predge Holding AB.
Core products
Predge’s railway offering centres on two product lines: Predge Rolling Stock and Predge Rail Infrastructure. Both are subscription-based decision support services for operation and maintenance planning.
The Rolling Stock service includes wheel damage prediction, bearing failure prediction and detection of on-route load shifting. A Bogie Performance feature identifies vehicles with deviating running behaviour.
The company positions its services as planning tools rather than monitoring dashboards. Predictions of remaining useful life and damage risk are intended to let operators align maintenance need with available workshop capacity.
Technology approach
Predge applies a hybrid modelling approach that combines machine learning with physics-of-failure and railway domain knowledge. The company takes a vendor-independent view of data, integrating inputs from existing wayside and onboard sources rather than requiring proprietary sensors.
That approach places the company among the predictive maintenance platforms that work from data an operator already collects, rather than from a dedicated sensor installation, and lets customers run predictions on infrastructure they already own.
Market position
Predge sits in the analytics segment of the rail market for digital systems and software, with a customer base anchored in Nordic heavy haul and freight. Its own customer references include the Swedish freight operator Real Rail Sweden, part of the Sandahls Group, and the mining company LKAB, whose iron ore traffic in northern Sweden runs at axle loads among the highest in Europe.
In September 2023, the company entered a strategic cooperation with Vossloh to develop a failure prediction model for point machines, the drives that operate switches. The agreement extended Predge’s infrastructure analytics to point machines and, through Vossloh’s installed base, to a wider market than the company’s own Nordic accounts.
The same analytics are applied outside rail through a separate conveyor monitoring product line for the mining sector.
Recent activity
In September 2025, the UK entity in charge of maintenance Davis Wagon Services adopted Predge’s wheel damage prediction for the biomass wagon fleet operated for the power generator Drax. The deployment followed a pilot and validation phase and uses existing data infrastructure rather than new trackside equipment.
The contract built on a British presence established earlier: Predge joined the Rail Freight Group in 2023 and has worked with wagon hire company VTG Rail UK on predictive maintenance over several years, a cooperation the two later extended into a long-term agreement.
