Case Study: Alstom achieves faster, more reliable train validation with Capgemini’s Virtual Train solution

Building the Virtual Train with Alstom

Alstom partnered with Capgemini to create Virtual Train, an award-winning Smart Engineering solution that uses augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality to validate train systems. Alstom’s challenge was to move its system verification and validation processes away from paper-based methods and improve productivity, reliability, and the testing of real trains and bench facilities at its production sites.

Capgemini implemented an immersive digital solution that links mixed reality with Alstom’s test resources, enabling operators to model, animate, and verify embedded systems in virtual and real environments. The result was about a 30% reduction in the time needed to analyze glitches during initial testing, faster scenario validation, and improved visibility and reliability for final train delivery. Capgemini’s Virtual Train also won the 2019 ERCI Innovation Award in the Best Large Enterprise category.

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