ZEDAS
ZEDAS is a German software developer whose asset management platform incorporates predictive maintenance capabilities for railway vehicles and infrastructure, headquartered in Senftenberg, Brandenburg.
The company was founded in 1990 and has built its business around two in-house software suites, Zedas Asset and Zedas Cargo.
Zedas Asset began as a maintenance planning and documentation system and has since incorporated predictive functions built on operational data collected from vehicles and infrastructure.
In May 2024, Arcadea Group, a Canadian software investor that holds companies long term, acquired ZEDAS.
Predictive maintenance approach
Zedas Asset draws on continuously collected condition and load data, such as mileage and recorded fault reports, to generate forecasts of component wear.
These forecasts feed load-dependent maintenance planning, allowing maintenance to be scheduled according to an asset’s actual condition rather than fixed time intervals alone.
The company has indicated wheelset wear prediction as one of the applications of its machine learning components.
Market position
ZEDAS describes its customer base as railway undertakings, infrastructure managers, industrial rail operators and workshops, concentrated in Germany and neighbouring European markets; among the customers it names for its asset management software are RWE Power and Regionalverkehre Start Deutschland.
The company’s predictive maintenance functions sit within its wider Zedas Asset suite rather than being sold as a standalone predictive maintenance platform.
Ownership and current activity
Following the 2024 transaction, ZEDAS continues to operate under its own brand with Arcadea Group as parent company. Jake Micsak is chief executive of ZEDAS GmbH and holds the same responsibility for the other railway software companies in Arcadea’s portfolio; co-founder Wolfgang Jahn, who led the company at the time of the transaction, is no longer listed in its management team.
In March 2026, ZEDAS was grouped with Railroad Software, Raspberry Software and Automated Rail under Waynova Group, a shared rail technology platform owned by Arcadea Group, with existing customer relationships, contracts and support teams left unchanged.
ZEDAS presented its maintenance software, including the Zedas Asset Infra and Rolling Stock modules, at the International Exhibition on Track Technology (iaf) in 2025.
The company also hosted its own ZEDAS Summit in Dresden in April 2025, which it says drew around 90 participants from railway operators, public transport companies and maintenance and infrastructure providers
