Chinese Railway Improves Accuracy and Efficiency with PTC’s PDS

By DE Editors

PTC (Needham, MA) announced that China’s Tangshan Railway Vehicles Co. Ltd. (TRV) has deployed the PTC Product Development System (PDS) consisting of Windchill for collaborative design and management platform,  and Pro/ENGINEER, PTC’s 3D CAD/CAM/CAE solution, to improve its design accuracies and efficiencies.

TRV develops and manufactures passenger vehicles for railway and metropolitan transportation and has introduced a number of the world’s leading technologies for the manufacturing of high-speed trains to China. Today, CRH3 350km/h high-speed train produced by TRV is already running on Beijing-Tianjin inter-city railway, and has set a new train speed record in China. TRV required a digital design and manufacturing platform to meet the increasing complexities of its product designs.

The PTC PDS allows TRV to achieve distributed, cross-enterprise collaboration on data acquisition and product information, centralized management of design and manufacturing data. Additionally, Windchill seamlessly connects to multiple mechanical or electrical CAD applications, desktop applications, and the SAP ERP system, leading to significant improvements in data accuracy and design efficiency. The integration with the 3D digital design of the previously isolated design and manufacturing data management platforms has helped TRV to improve product development process. PTC PDS has also allowed TRV to enable concurrent development with Changchun Railway Vehicles Equipment Co. on a train project.

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Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.