New global opportunities are more diversified, require advanced systems engineering, and demand real-time, multi-site governance. Rolling Stock innovators are challenged to advance their product performance, ensure enterprise collaboration, all while enhancing safety, reliability and optimising profitability. INNOVATION ON TRACK 3DEXPERIENCE solutions provide your teams with railway industry-proven tools and integrated processes to pursue new complex opportunities, optimise design, engineering, and manufacturing performance, enable asset re-use and modularisation, and ensure profitable, on-target delivery.

Implement an integrated governance solution

Innovation on Track solutions provide a global platform to assess and secure new opportunities. Integrated governance and change management support ensures your global teams are fulfilling requirements and meeting milestones. The single source of truth connects all stakeholders in an integrated 3D environment to enhance global/local (glocal) collaboration, meet train maker requirements and ensure on –time delivery.

Transform engineering processes with systems engineering

Innovation on Track also includes an advanced systems engineering solution to support complex product design. Capture requirements from rail operators, define and validate the systems architecture, then simulate and virtually validate systems performance, all within one unified platform

Minimise your risk and validate manufacturability to deliver on target

Leveraging general office applications to appraise and develop new business proposals is risky when managing sophisticated global opportunities. Innovation on Track solutions support systematic processes with railway industry-proven checks and methodologies. ControlBuild capabilities enable an innovative environment for designing and validating critical control software applications, minimising costly production delays. From model and tooling design and simulation to manufacturing and assembly processes, suppliers can ensure they deliver precisely in time and on target.

Enhance other domains with multi-disciplinary engineering

Gain your competitive edge by unifying multi-disciplinary efforts in document management, BOM management, project management and multi-CAD management. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform will help to create ‘the virtual train’ environment, bringing together both your precise mockup and systems command.

Enhance your wins with more profitable results

Key challenges for rolling stock innovators are winning tenders and limiting cost overruns. New industry business is pursued within a short time frame with limited resources to precisely assess all options of the project. Innovation on Track solutions enable suppliers both to answer RFQs more efficiently and to accurate meet train OEM requirements, thus improving suppliers’ win/loss ratio, minimising errors and accelerating delivery on target.

Key Benefits

• Use governance to enable global multi-site project success
• Optimise global manufacturing resources and processes
• Ensure producibility with fabrication and assembly planning
• Leverage integrated systems engineering for mechatronics
• Accelerate, improve profitable opportunity bid/win ratio

1. Project & Change Management

• Ensures product requirements are tracked with the project to deliver the optimal results.
• Enables project planning and execution based on company standards.
• Provides strategic capabilities to track tasks and deliverables in real-time.
• Optimises the deployment of resources and improves status visibility with dashboards and reports.

2. BOM & Design Data Management

• Creates ‘the virtual train’ environment, bringing together precise mockup and systems command.
• Provide multi-site design teams to productively collaborate on the same design.
• Grant access to design data information for non-CAD enterprise stakeholders in real time throughout the entire product lifecycle.
• Leverage productive, multi-version CATIA capabilities, with multiple approaches, without disruption to current developments.

3. Product Systems Engineering

• Capture requirements from rail operators, define and validate the systems architecture, then simulate and virtually validate systems performance.
• Leverage a more formal, enhanced framework between requirements and geometry.
• Establish a foundation for capturing ‘what’ and ‘how’ products deliver value to customers.
• Reuse knowledge beyond requirements, geometry to speed time to market and improve robustness.
• Transform innovation, leveraging new requirements-driven, model-based design methodologies.
• Utilise strategic information in all domains that interact in the PLM environment.

4. Advanced Product Engineering

• Enable global collaborators to connect online to one single source of the truth.
• Optimise 3D design for product variants.
• Design easily and productively within the context of large, complex products.
• Provide real-time concurrent design, and immediate 3D insight for all across the enterprise.
• Support multi-disciplinary collaboration on products & systems.

5. Product Performance Validation

• Reduces iterations between customer and toolmaker by managing product modifications and minimising manufacturing issues.
• Supports standardisation from one tooling project to another.
• Provides unified, integrated development platform for design, simulation, and manufacturing.
• Comprehensively enables Forging, Casting, Stamping Die, Plastic Injection mould design.
• Increases globalised processes’ productivity via one integrated solution from part design to tooling manufacturing.
• Automates design tasks and assist user decision-making within an online engineering environment.
• Implement agile and reactive tooling processes, which can adjust reliably to evolving requirements.

6. Mold & Tooling Engineering

• Reduces iterations between customer and toolmaker by managing product modifications and minimising manufacturing issues.
• Supports standardisation from one tooling project to another.
• Provides unified, integrated development platform for design, simulation, and manufacturing.
• Comprehensively enables Forging, Casting, Stamping Die, Plastic Injection mould design.
• Increases globalised processes’ productivity via one integrated solution from part design to tooling manufacturing.
• Automates design tasks and assist user decision-making within an online engineering environment.
• Implement agile and reactive tooling processes, which can adjust reliably to evolving requirements.

7. Manufacturing Engineering

• Provide single data repository to store and manage design and manufacturing lifecycle of product.
• End-to-end process traceability to manage engineering changes impacts, cost and potential delays.
• Strengthens linkage between design and manufacturing across the extended enterprise, while clarifying impact of design changes on machining processes.
• Capture, standardise and re-use of proven manufacturing practices and enterprise knowledge.
• Reduces product development cycle time and minimises manufacturing costs.
• Supports implementation of supplier best practices without geographical or language barriers.