INDIA: Wabtec has opened a ‘world-class’ rail component design and performance lab at Bengaluru.
The facility includes a test area, operations centre and office space with more than 30 custom-built mechanical, electrical and propulsion test rigs which will be used characterise performance, understand failures, predict the service life of components, and validate design improvements.
‘The India site is an important engineering hub for our company’, said Eric Gebhardt, Wabtec’s Executive Vice-President & Chief Technology Officer at the inauguration ceremony on October 13. ‘The Wabtec India Technology Center and this global engineering lab are vital to our strategy to develop sustainable solutions for our customers worldwide.’
