Case Study: Wabtec Corporation achieves faster product development and 10% engineer productivity gains with HPE Aruba Networking

Wabtec connects millions with products that deliver more efficient and reliable transportation

Wabtec, a global transportation-technology company that builds locomotives, braking systems and other mobility solutions, needed to accelerate safe, sustainable product design while supporting 300 engineers in India. A nonstandardized infrastructure, long simulation cycle times, heavy workloads and the COVID-19–driven shift to remote work—compounded by a major merger and site consolidation—were slowing design, testing and time to market.

Wabtec standardized on HPE and VMware virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and an HPE high-performance computing (HPC) environment to provide on‑demand, scalable compute and storage. The solution enabled remote work and rapid provisioning, increased engineer productivity by 10%, sped meshing 5x, reduced structural analysis time by 40% and trimmed post‑processing by up to 20%, while lowering costs, improving support efficiency and preserving service‑level performance.

Wabtec Corporation

Yogesh Kumar

Vice President for Technology and India Engineering