BT Ingenium has in-depth professional experience gained over the years with activities carried out with leading companies in the sector in the field of railway vehicle design and more specifically in the electronic / electrical design in the railway sector.
The railway engineering consultancy services offered in this area differ according to the needs of the Customer, whether it be a transport company or a large or small sector manufacturing industry, making available the multi-year skills for carrying out various activities normally provided in direct support of customer engineering:
- Railway Design Support (in particular electric / electronic rolling stock) and creation of design, industrialization and production documentation.
- Documentation for admission, commissioning and placing on the market procedures for vehicles (AMIS procedures).
- CSM safety Risk Analysis (Common Safety Mode) in compliance with regulation UE 402/2013.
- Specialized consultancy to the bodies responsible for assessment activities (OIF, No.Bo, De.Bo) in the field of ANSFISA homologation area and system / product certification.
- Technical documentation for Tenders (in particular in relation to the definition of the purpose of supplying the electronic / electrical subsystems of rolling stock and the RAMS)
- Technical project documentation of electronic on-board subsystems (TCMS, PAPIS, others) with production of electrical diagrams of principle and train functionalities, definition of architecture, definition of COTS components and HW / FW electronic design of specific components
- Document creation support for HW and SW systems design Life Cycle in compliance with railway standards (EN 50155, EN 50126, EN 50128, EN 50129).
- Support for V&V (Verification and Validation) and Product Qualification activities at external EN 17025 accredited laboratories (EMC, Thermal, Vibration tests)
- Support for Reliability Growth activities for on-board electronic systems (execution of Failure Analysis, identification of project weaknesses and corrective and continuous improvement actions)
- Maintenance Engineering, support for ECM bodies for engineering, RAMS, maintenance documentation and application of CMS methodology
Here are some references of recent projects and consultancy:
[2022-2024] Consultancy to TRENITALIA rolling stock technical Direction for engineering and documentation activities of the project “Interventions on the locomotives of the DBIC fleet”. The design and documentation of improvement changes and electrical adaptation of various locomotives of the customer’s rolling stock are in progress (E402B, E403, etc.]
[2023] Consultancy on the AMIS homologation process on RFI network (regulation ANSF 1/2016) of the revamping modifications of the Auxiliary Converter of TRENITALIA Z1 coaches “Barrellate” with the creation of the risk analysis documentation in compliance with regulation UE 402/2013.
[2022-2024] Consultancy on the AMIS homologation process on isolated network (regulation ANSF 1/2019) of the revamping modifications of the COTRAL MA200 electrical units with the creation of the risk analysis documentation in compliance with regulation UE 402/2013.
[2022-2024] Consultancy on the AMIS homologation process on isolated network (regulation ANSF 1/2019) of the revamping modifications of the AMT E46 electrical units with the creation of the risk analysis documentation in compliance with regulation UE 402/2013.
[2022] Consultancy on the AMIS homologation process on the RFI network (regulation ANSF 1/2016) of the revamping modifications of the TRENITALIA E414 locomotives with the creation of the risk analysis documentation in compliance with regulation UE 402/2013.
[2022-2023] Support to the R&D function for the design of the TCMS system of the new trains for Regione Lazio (Roma-Lido, Roma-Viterbo).
A train simulation Testbench (HW part) was designed and built for the execution of integration tests and validation of the on-board TCMS system software.
[2020-2021] Support to the R&D function for the design of the TCMS system of the new trains for FCE (CircumEtnea Railway).
A train simulation Testbench (HW part) was designed and built for the execution of integration tests and validation of the on-board TCMS system software.
The train functional wiring diagrams have been created for the TCMS system.
Technical specification documents of the on-board TCN (WTB / MVB) and Ethernet (TRDP) serial communication protocols have been defined and produced for the architecture of the TCMS system.
[2020-2021] Support to the R&D function for the design of the PIS-CCTV systems for the new DMU regional trains. 360 ° specialist advice is given on the various aspects of product definition in order to comply with the contractual compliance requirements required by the technical specifications, in particular for RAMS analysis and Fire & Smoke conformity analysis (EN 45545-2) and certification to the EU regulation 1302/2014 of railway interoperability (TSI) of on-board displays.
A methodological consultancy and operational execution of a Requirement Management System relating to the design life cycle of the SW project is underway with the main purpose of tracing the contractual functional requirements and the detailed realization of the system application SW and of the basic SW of the various components.
[2017-2020] Support to the R&D and Commercial function for the production of technical documentation of various rolling supply Tenders (FNM, Tunisia, Lazio Region, Circumetnea Railway) for the purpose of RAMS and for the technical descriptions and estimates of electronic subsystems on-board (TCMS, PIS-CCTV, others)
[2017-2019] Support to the Requirement Management System R&D function of the TAF Revamping convoys project.
Methodological and operational support was given to the customer for the setting and management of an automatic system for tracking the functional contractual requirements using computerized support tools (Polarion).
[2019-2021] Support to R&D and Quality functions of specialist technical consultancy for the execution of failure analysis and troubleshooting on vehicle signaling system for subway applications. A fundamental contribution was made to the reliability growth of the client’s project. A continuous service is also provided for electronic maintenance and repair of the equipment.
[2016-2018] The application of the EN 45545-2 fire protection standard was introduced to the R&D function by providing targeted training courses to Project Engineers on design guidelines for compliance with the legislation, subsequently taking charge of and with continuity of compliance reporting of all their display products for railway applications. In addition, support was given for the creation of the technical product documentation necessary for obtaining product certification under EU regulation 1302/2014 of railway interoperability (TSI) by participating in the assessment activities carried out by the certification bodies in charge.
