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Innovations on the move

New opportunities in the industry are becoming more complex: it is necessary to manage multiple sites in real time and enhance the efficiency of rolling stock while maintaining safety, reliability, and profitability. 3DEXPERIENCE solutions provide railway teams with proven tools and unified processes to optimize design and manufacturing, reuse assets, modularity, and efficient project delivery.

New global opportunities are more diversified, require advanced systems engineering, and necessitate real-time management across multiple platforms. Innovators in rolling stock face the challenge of enhancing product performance, ensuring enterprise collaboration, while simultaneously increasing safety, reliability, and optimizing profitability. INNOVATIONS ON TRACK 3DEXPERIENCE solutions provide your teams with proven tools and integrated processes tailored for leveraging new complex capabilities, optimizing design, engineering, and manufacturing, ensuring asset reusability and modularity, as well as enabling profitable and targeted delivery.

Implementation of an Integrated Management Solution

Innovation on Track solutions provide a global platform for assessing and ensuring new capabilities. Integrated support for management and change management ensures that your global teams meet requirements and achieve milestones. A single source of reliable information unites all stakeholders in an integrated 3D environment to enhance global/local collaboration, meet train manufacturers’ requirements, and ensure timely delivery.

Transform Engineering Processes with Systems Engineering

Innovation on Track also includes an advanced systems engineering solution to support complex product design. Gather requirements from railway operators, define and validate system architecture, then model and virtually verify system performance—all within a unified platform.

Minimize Your Risk and Validate Technological Feasibility to Achieve Goals

Using common office applications to assess and develop new business proposals is risky when managing complex global opportunities. Innovation on Track solutions support systematic processes with industry-validated checks and methodologies. ControlBuild capabilities provide an innovative environment for developing and validating mission-critical management software applications, minimizing costly production delays. From designing and modeling tools and models to manufacturing and assembly processes—suppliers can ensure timely and accurate delivery.

Expand the capabilities of other areas through interdisciplinary engineering

Gain a competitive advantage by combining interdisciplinary efforts in document management, specifications, project management, and multi-CAD management. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform will help create a “virtual train” environment that integrates both your precise layout and the systems team.

Increase your wins with more profitable outcomes

Key challenges for rolling stock innovators are winning tenders and limiting budget overruns. New industry business is conducted in short timeframes with limited resources for accurate project option assessments. Innovation on Track solutions enable suppliers to respond more effectively to requests for proposals and accurately meet the requirements of train equipment manufacturers, thereby improving suppliers’ win-loss ratios, minimizing errors, and accelerating delivery on schedule.

Key benefits

  • Use management to ensure the success of a global project with multiple sites
  • Optimize global manufacturing resources and processes
  • Ensure productivity through production and assembly planning
  • Utilize comprehensive system design for mechatronics
  • Accelerate and improve the bid/win ratio of profitable opportunities
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PROJECT AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT

  • Ensures tracking of product requirements within the project to achieve optimal results.
  • Allows planning and executing projects based on company standards.
  • Provides strategic opportunities for tracking tasks and outcomes in real-time.
  • Optimizes resource deployment and enhances visibility of status through dashboards and reports.
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MANAGEMENT OF SPECIFICATIONS AND PROJECT DATA

  • Creates a “virtual train” environment by combining an accurate layout and control system.
  • Provides design teams working across multiple sites with productive collaboration on the same project.
  • Offers access to project data information for enterprise stakeholders not using CAD in real-time throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Utilizes the productive capabilities of multi-version CATIA with multiple approaches without interrupting ongoing developments.
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PRODUCT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

  • Gather requirements from railway operators, define and verify the system architecture, then model and virtually test the system’s performance.
  • Use a more formal extended structure between requirements and geometry.
  • Create a foundation for defining what and how products benefit customers.
  • Reuse knowledge beyond requirements and geometry to accelerate time to market and enhance reliability.
  • Transform innovations using new design methodologies based on requirements and models.
  • Utilize strategic information across all areas interacting within the PLM environment.
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IMPROVED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

  • Enable global employees to connect to a single source of reliable information online.
  • Optimize 3D design for product variants.
  • Design easily and productively in the context of large and complex products.
  • Ensure real-time parallel design and immediate 3D analytics for the entire enterprise.
  • Support interdisciplinary collaboration on products and systems.
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PRODUCT PERFORMANCE TESTING

  • Reduces the number of iterations between the customer and the tool manufacturer by managing product modifications and minimizing production issues.
  • Supports standardization from one tool project to another.
  • Provides a unified integrated development platform for design, modeling, and manufacturing.
  • Comprehensively enables the creation of forging, casting, stamping, and plastic injection molds.
  • Enhances the productivity of global processes with a single integrated solution from part design to tool manufacturing.
  • Automates design tasks and helps users make decisions in an interactive engineering environment.
  • Implement flexible and reactive tool processes that can be reliably adapted to changing requirements.
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ENGINEERING OF PRESS FORMS AND EQUIPMENT

  • Reduces the number of iterations between the customer and the tool manufacturer by managing product modifications and minimizing production issues.
  • Supports standardization from one tool project to another.
  • Provides a unified integrated development platform for design, modeling, and manufacturing.
  • Comprehensively enables the creation of forging, casting, stamping, and plastic injection molds.
  • Enhances the productivity of global processes with a single integrated solution from part design to tool manufacturing.
  • Automates design tasks and assists users in making decisions in an interactive engineering environment.
  • Implement flexible and reactive tool processes that can be reliably adapted to changing requirements.
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PRODUCTION

  • Provide a single data repository for storing and managing the product design and manufacturing lifecycle.
  • End-to-end traceability of processes to manage the impact of engineering changes, costs, and potential delays.
  • Strengthens the connection between design and manufacturing across the extended enterprise, while clarifying the impact of design changes on processing operations.
  • Collect, standardize, and reuse proven manufacturing methods and corporate knowledge.
  • Reduces product development cycle time and minimizes manufacturing costs.
  • Supports the implementation of best practices from suppliers without geographical or language barriers.