The manufacturing execution system (MES) for bogie manufacturing center developed by the Automation Systems Department of Shenyang Institute of Automation (SIA) stood out among competitors and secured the institute a contract with CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd (CNR CRC), laying a solid foundation for the system to be applied in China’s high-speed railway manufacturing in the future. 

As the management system for locomotive manufacturing, the MES covers the whole process of bogie production, including workshops for processing, welding, wheel axle, assembly, anti-corrosion, maintenance and new product, as well as departments of general affairs, production, manufacturing method and equipment. The first phase of project under the contract revolves around process tracking, focuses on the transparency of production process, and is expected to start at the end of this year.

CNR CRC is currently China’s largest and strongest R&D, manufacturing and exportation base of mainline passenger vehicles and urban mass transit vehicles. From the establishment of company, CNR CRC has accumulatively manufactured more than 30 thousand various railway vehicles (including EMUs), approximately taking up 44% of entire operating vehicles; accumulatively manufactured more than 4100 various urban mass transit vehicles (including CNR Bombardier), taking up about 55% of domestically operating vehicles. The products of CNR CRC have been exported to North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bengal, etc. In recent years, the products even step into high level markets such as Hong Kong, Thailand, New Zealand, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, etc. From 1995 until now, CNR CRC has accumulatively obtained more than 3 billion dollars’ export orders.　　 (Dai Tianjiao)