Russian Railways (RZD) and Siemens signed a strategic memorandum on creating a joint engineering center for big data processing. The signing took place during the 9th International conference, Railway Engineering: Partnership of 1520 and 1435 Rail Gauge Manufacturers.
The memorandum was signed by Senior Vice President and Chief Engineer of Russian Railways, Valentin Gapanovich, and by the President of Siemens Russia and Central Asia and Vice President of Siemens, Dietrich Möller.
“We are talking specifically about creating a data analysis center for digital technology, the service, the infrastructure and the rolling stock,” Mr. Möller said. “The strategic memorandum contains, of course, additional measures to promote high-speed and extra high-speed communication, production and operation of locomotives, but our focus is, most certainly, on automation, remote control and digital technology.”
The conference covered a wide range of issues pertaining collaboration between vehicle manufacturers from countries with “wide” and “narrow” railway gauges. In particular, the issues will include problems of heavy-weight railway traffic, resource saving, manufacturing localisation and introduction of the latest technologies.
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