CAD Support for Locomotive Modernization

Our new client provides top-notch electrical equipment for modernizing aging locomotives in terms of performance, cost-efficiency, longevity, and sustainability. Planning to launch a new product to market, they required a highly qualified CAD expert to provide compatibility for every type of operating locomotive in North America, thus ensuring its trouble-free certification.

Launch cutting-edge electrical equipment to market with a guarantee of its seamless installation to every type of acting locomotives.

Develop a complete pack of illustrative instructions for retrofitting all the required types of locomotives with the client’s product.

We accommodated our client challenge with requirements definition by giving them flexibility in our resource engagement and a clear communication process to start the project without a predefined scope of work. 

Before proceeding with the main activities, PSA’s dedicated resource investigated the brand-new system and mastered the CAD tool from scratch. With a lack of initial instructions and CAD standards, our CAD engineer took on decision-making for the optimal representation of documentation and supplied the client with: 

• Removal instructions for all the provided locomotive types

• Installation instructions for all the provided locomotive types with detailed component characteristics

• Full Book of Plans for the required locomotives

• Design updates for the outdated circuits

As a result, the client got the full pack of vital modernization instructions to certify and launch a new product to market.

• Requirements clarification
• CAD design
• Instructions preparation