Welcome to Inter Swiss Ltd.!
We are an Internationally-recognized railway brake-technology company based in Chicago, IL USA. You can find information about our company and our products and services at the links above. We have been introducing braking products since 1969.
Originally Founded as Pneutronics Corporation in 1963, the company entered some new fields and changed its name to Inter Swiss in 1975. Our senior management has been with us throughout our history and Jim Rees, the founder, is still the CEO. Inter Swiss Ltd. has been an international leader in Railway and Braking technology for the last 45 years and the premier company for computer controlled automatic brake-test consoles. We are the world's foremost manufacturer and innovator of Automatic Single Car Test Devices as required by various Governmental and Railway authorities.
Inter Swiss is engaged in the science of railway braking. Though we manufacture some braking devices for special purposes, we are mostly interested in testing and measurement as it relates to ensuring braking integrity. For instance, from 1993 on, we were a pioneer in Electronically Controlled Pneumatic Brakes (ECP) and helped develop and introduce the present standard control protocol. Our President was President of Duluth and Iron Range Co. (DIRCO) who owned original patents for the electronic protocol that was adopted by AAR and became the standard for the industry. We sold our intellectual porperty to New York Air Brake, Unit of Knorr Brake, who are now pursuing it actively, worldwide. Please contact us if you would like any additional information about any of these products beyond what is provided here.
We are Certified by The Association of American Railroads in their Quality Assurance Program M-1003 under Certificate Number QA-ISCI.We, or our Officers hold various trade memberships and certifications and a partial listing follows:
- LIFE Member, Association of Mechanical Engineers
- LIFE Member, Air Brake Association
- Founder (1964) Past President, Railway Supply Association (Now RSI)
- Founder (1963) Past President, Railtec Mexico
- Other Railway Related associations and organizations
- We have presented technical papers to a number of these and other organizations during the past Forty years, and have held AAR approval certificates since 1969
Developer of the Brake-O-Lator™,
our new computerized, automatic
portable single car testing system
for railway air braking systems.
It is unequaled anywhere else
and is considered to be the best
single-car testing device available.
Over 500 are now in service and
have tested more than 1,300,000
railcars accurately and economically
in various countries. AAR
APPROVED S-486 and S-4027.