Projects

Ferrovia’s Involvement:

• Mechanical engineering and design, project management and delivery expertise from SDR through to Client Acceptance.
• Engineering and Delivery Managers for:
  • Car-body, Structures, Interiors WP
  • Cabs, Bogies WP
  • Electrical Systems WP
• Contract manager for Critical Sub-systems:
  • HVAC, Vigilance, Fire detection and Pantographs.
• SMEs for Human Factors, Reliability, Mechanical, Structural analysis, Data analyst, Crashworthiness
• Our management of cross-functional teams ensured design, engineering, procurement, delivery management and quality assurance were completed on time and within budget (>$500m).
• Delivered RAMS and Safety Plans, reliability modelling, FMECA, FTA and TLS maintenance analysis through design phases.

Passenger Seat (reversible):

Ferrovia resources included the design manager and sign-off mechanical engineer for the Waratah passenger seat, developing several seat prototypes and test rigs to prove structural performance, endurance, comfort and optimise the design, thus reducing project risk. This approach ensured the physical seat passed all contract verification tests first time.

The reversible passenger seat incorporates compact energy absorption systems, significantly reducing passenger impact loads in a train collision scenario. This was the first passenger train seat in service in NSW designed to meet crashworthiness loads, passenger containment needs, compliance for fire & toxicity, structural load cases and comfort:

• Led the design, engineering and manufacturing strategies.
• Developed energy absorption system to achieve crash loading.
• Analysed structural design with crashworthiness modelling, verifying passenger containment and FEA prior to physical testing.