Visit to Traktionssysteme Austria (TSA)
Our first activity after summer vacation was the visit to Traktionssysteme Austria (TSA) - the leading manufacturer of electromechanical drives powering railway rolling stock and commercial road vehicles on 23 September 2025, where we were welcomed by CEO Harold Schmidt.
CEO Harold Schmidt offered an in depth presentation of the company. Traktionssysteme Austria - the Austrian enterprise has a company history reaching back to the 1960s. Reliable and highly efficient traction drives have been produced in the former Brown Boveri plant in Wiener Neudorf for more than 60 years. The production was later taken over by ABB Antriebssysteme GmbH and following a management-buy-out TSA Traktionssysteme Austria emerged. The company turned out to be extremely successful and by now technology of TSA is being used on every continent and moves trains and buses all over the world.
With its products, the company provides solutions for the future ecological and technological challenges of electromobility for rail and road. A clear growth strategy is pursued through the development of new, energy-efficient products.
As a full-range supplier, TSA offers the design, manufacturing, testing and delivery of customer-tailored applications, ranging from individual components supply to fully-fledged drive solutions and aftermarket services and support. Core products of TSA include traction motors and generators, as well as wheelset gearboxes based on asynchronous and permanent magnet technologies.
The company employs over 400 people in Austria and 1.200 overall in the Group. Other companies within the Traktionssysteme Austria Group include Traction Systems Inc. (USA Sales Representative in Somerville, NJ), Traktionssysteme Bosnia d.o.o. (Manufacturing of components in Bosnia and Herzegovina), Traction Systems China (Procurement Representative in Shanghai), and Medha Traction Equipment Pvt. Ltd. (Joint Venture with Medha Servo Drives based in Hyderabad, India). The cooperation with Medha Traction Equipment is growing fast as both companies complement each other.
