Solution for Train Manufacturers

Passenger train builders continue to face many production challenges. Trains are increasingly complex. Operating at low or high capacity, your workforce must remain proficient to avoid costly penalties for late delivery or quality issues. All of this is more difficult in a low-volume, high-mix industry. To stay competitive in this mature industry, you need to innovate.

Quester Tangent offers the solution. Our leading Trainwise™ TCMS and PIS deliver the capabilities your clients demand, while our Fleetwise™ train factory management system digitalizes workflows to help your teams work smarter. Cut costs while accelerating the transformation of approved designs into revenue service trains.

The Challenges

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You need to offer advanced train electronics that deliver the capabilities clients are now demanding.

Modular, integrated TCMS and PIS

Trainwise is the world’s most advanced TCMS and PIS solution. A unique, modular, integrated design makes it fully customized to comply with all project specifications, industry regulations, and customer requirements. It features the newest network standards, cybersecurity, interface design, and fleet-wide video, with advanced tools that help simplify integration. Designed to maximize efficiency, reliability, and passenger satisfaction, Trainwise is also enabled for wayside management with our Fleetwise EFMS, helping your clients maximize fleet readiness and state-of-good-repair while cutting operating and maintenance costs. And everything is covered by our Total TrainLife Care™ long-term support.

It’s increasingly time-consuming to configure and test complex electronic subsystems for every car and every phase, from pilot car integration to manufacturing.

Automated Testing

Use advanced system integration tools for testing connections and communications. Replace manual tasks with automated scheduling for subsystem software configuration, serialization, and network tests. Schedule tasks for any time of day or night. Save time with preconfigured, automated off-car factory self-tests.

Manually configuring system software can slow down production and introduce errors.

Automated Software Tasks

Take advantage of automated TCMS subsystem software and PIS content uploads and version validation.

Production managers need a deeper view into the build status of every car in production.

Factory-Wide Connectivity

Get real-time visibility of the build and test status for every car, at every stage of production. Automated reporting delivers a complete train build history with proof of correct operation and configuration, which also helps shorten the customer acceptance process.

You need to improve the ability to quickly identify problems down to the sub-supplier equipment level during pilot, production and warranty phases.

Powerful Diagnostics & Data Sharing

Simple-to-use diagnostics tools validate performance and help troubleshoot defects quickly. Share fault information to enable collaboration. Data and diagnostic tools are shared across engineering, production and sub-supplier teams to enable collaboration on problem-solving. Server-stored data enables off-line troubleshooting, even when cars are unpowered.

Once trains are in service, your warranty team needs to ensure customer satisfaction while lowering support costs.

Fleet-Wide Connectivity

Data sharing enables simpler customer collaboration, with access to daily maintenance status and the complete histories of each train. When an issue arises, use the same tools as the factory for rapid troubleshooting.

It’s critical to work with a full-service supplier that you can trust and depend on.

Partner With A Leader

Quester Tangent is ranked in the top 5% of passenger rail suppliers in quality system scores. Our state-of-the-art facilities and coordinated processes allow our teams to deliver efficient, turnkey solutions that integrate in-depth engineering expertise, extensive manufacturing capacity, project management, customization, system and network integration, and long-term support. And if a difficult problem comes up, you get fast access to our factory or field experts.

Modular, integrated TCMS and PIS

Trainwise is the world’s most advanced TCMS and PIS solution. A unique, modular, integrated design makes it fully customized to comply with all project specifications, industry regulations, and customer requirements. It features the newest network standards, cybersecurity, interface design, and fleet-wide video, with advanced tools that help simplify integration. Designed to maximize efficiency, reliability, and passenger satisfaction, Trainwise is also enabled for wayside management with our Fleetwise EFMS, helping your clients maximize fleet readiness and state-of-good-repair while cutting operating and maintenance costs. And everything is covered by our Total TrainLife Care™ long-term support.

Automated Testing

Use advanced system integration tools for testing connections and communications. Replace manual tasks with automated scheduling for subsystem software configuration, serialization, and network tests. Schedule tasks for any time of day or night. Save time with preconfigured, automated off-car factory self-tests.

Automated Software Tasks

Take advantage of automated TCMS subsystem software and PIS content uploads and version validation.

Factory-Wide Connectivity

Get real-time visibility of the build and test status for every car, at every stage of production. Automated reporting delivers a complete train build history with proof of correct operation and configuration, which also helps shorten the customer acceptance process.

Powerful Diagnostics & Data Sharing

Simple-to-use diagnostics tools validate performance and help troubleshoot defects quickly. Share fault information to enable collaboration. Data and diagnostic tools are shared across engineering, production and sub-supplier teams to enable collaboration on problem-solving. Server-stored data enables off-line troubleshooting, even when cars are unpowered.

Fleet-Wide Connectivity

Data sharing enables simpler customer collaboration, with access to daily maintenance status and the complete histories of each train. When an issue arises, use the same tools as the factory for rapid troubleshooting.

Partner With A Leader

Quester Tangent is ranked in the top 5% of passenger rail suppliers in quality system scores. Our state-of-the-art facilities and coordinated processes allow our teams to deliver efficient, turnkey solutions that integrate in-depth engineering expertise, extensive manufacturing capacity, project management, customization, system and network integration, and long-term support. And if a difficult problem comes up, you get fast access to our factory or field experts.

Whether connecting across the factory floor or to an in-service fleet, Trainwise and Fleetwise will help you:

Save time through every stage of production
Simplify the customer acceptance process
Reduce warranty support costs

Traditional train production methods require time-consuming manual on-car testing with minimal cross-team collaboration. The Fleetwise train factory management system (TFMS) offers connectivity with onboard TCMS and PIS across all cars on the factory floor. You’ll get data sharing across teams, automated testing and configuration tools, and fast access to technical support. This helps your teams optimize workflows by saving time during prototype and production stages, solving problems together, and improving consistency and accuracy across all car build phases, even for complex systems. Warranty teams will also save time and cost by remotely connecting to in-service trains, using powerful diagnostic tools to isolate issues, and simplifying customer collaboration.

  • Collect and unify data for all trains in production, sharing with engineering, technicians and production managers, with tailored views and tools for each user group.
  • Save time with preconfigured, automated factory self-tests and automated software configuration management.
  • Accelerate fault isolation and resolution through advanced diagnostics tools, cross-team collaboration, and off-train troubleshooting.
  • Connect to technical support for immediate assistance when needed.
  • Give production managers better visibility of production efficiency, with automated reports on train build status that also help simplify the customer acceptance stage.
  • Help your warranty team improve customer satisfaction thanks to access to daily maintenance status, faster response to ensure service readiness, simpler collaboration with transit authority teams, and reduced troubleshooting time using the same tools as the factory.
  • Modular, flexible, cyber-secure, and specification-compliant design.
  • For retrofit or new build projects, integrates tightly with other train equipment.
  • Monitors, controls, and diagnoses vehicle systems during operations, maintenance, and warranty periods.
  • Increases fleet interoperability, expedites maintenance, and enhances revenue service.
  • Simplifies regulatory compliance across all cars, e.g., cybersecurity, configuration management control, exterior side door safety.
  • Tailors the passenger environment and evolves with needs.
  • Offers security video monitoring across all trains and cars.
  • Efficiently and securely connects drivers, riders, operational teams and other 3rd parties (e.g. safety services, suppliers or contractors).