Wabtec Opens Its Largest Engineering Lab in India
October 13 2021 - 6:30AM
Business Wire
Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB), a leading technology supplier
for the freight and transit rail industries, inaugurated today a
world-class global engineering lab at Bengaluru to enable rail
component design and performance. The new facility is Wabtec’s
largest lab in India and adds to the company’s growing engineering
presence in the country.
The facility was inaugurated by Eric Gebhardt, Wabtec’s
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer and Dr.
Sujatha Narayan, Regional Senior Vice President, Wabtec India,
along with key members from the Engineering team.
“India site is an important engineering hub for our company,”
said Gebhardt. “The Wabtec India Technology Center and this global
engineering lab are vital to our strategy to develop sustainable
solutions for our customers worldwide.”
This engineering lab has a 30,000-square-foot test lab area and
12,000 square feet for an operations center and office space. The
facility houses more than 30 complex mechanical, electrical and
propulsion related custom built test rigs. The objective of the
facility is to characterize the performance, understand the
failures, predict the service life of components, and validate
design improvements.
“This new lab provides our team in Bengaluru the resources to
design and validate products for our global and regional markets,”
said Narayan.
Wabtec is planning to relocate and add test rigs to the new
facility over the next three months. Some of the test equipment,
such as the Resonance Type 1500 KN Fatigue rig, are unique and one
of its kind in India. Engineers across the globe will leverage
these labs for establishing dynamic characterization, comparing
physical and virtual test results, component validations and
development work.
“The Global Engineering Lab allows us to conduct ‘Smart
Validation’ of products in the most efficient way, this approach
enables us to do component-level testing versus system level
testing,” said Gopal Madabhushi, Corporate Vice President, Wabtec
Corporation “The lab’s innovative rigs allow us to design for
various operating conditions, gain insights on performance in
shortest possible time, which supports successful product
launches.”
Wabtec is one of the largest rail equipment manufacturers in
India. With two large business entities in freight and transit
rail, the company has supplied more than 300 locomotives to Indian
Railways and have an installed base of subsystems in over 2,000
cars in Metro projects. The company employs 2,700 people in India
with large engineering bases in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
About Wabtec
Wabtec Corporation (NYSE: WAB) is focused on creating
transportation solutions that move and improve the world. The
company is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital
solutions and value-added services for the freight and transit rail
industries, as well as the mining, marine and industrial markets.
Wabtec has been a leader in the rail industry for over 150 years
and has a vision to achieve a zero-emission rail system in the U.S.
and worldwide. Visit Wabtec’s website at
www.wabteccorp.com.
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