Rail Wheel Factory
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Rail Wheel Factory at Yelahanka
, Bangalore
is a premier manufacturing unit of Indian Railways, which is engaged in the production of wheels, axles and wheel sets of railroad wagons, coaches and locomotives for the use of the Indian Railways
and select overseas customers. It was commissioned in 1984 to manufacture wheels and axles for the Indian Railways. The plant has many unique and modern features incorporating state of art development in technology and designs. For example, the civil engineering structures are planned on with modern architectural concepts; the cast steel technology used in the manufacture of wheels uses the scrap steel collected from Railways own workshops as raw material, the end products (the wheels, axels and wheel sets) are precisely engineered with little scrap for human errors; rigid quality control and latest MIS for production planning and control. It has a planned capacity to manufacture 70,000 wheels of different sizes, 23,000 axles and to assemble 23,000 wheel sets. It employs over 2000 personnel and has an annual turnover of about 82 crores.It is an ISO 9001: 2000 and ISO 14001 certified unit for its business processes. It has claims to the best productivity figures among comparable industries. It has a very high level of automation in its manufacturing facilities and has an enviable information technology set up.
Yelahanka
Yelahanka is a suburb of Bangalore in the Indian state of Karnataka originally envisaged as a satellite town of Bangalore city, but now part of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike.-Location:...
, Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
is a premier manufacturing unit of Indian Railways, which is engaged in the production of wheels, axles and wheel sets of railroad wagons, coaches and locomotives for the use of the Indian Railways
Indian Railways
Indian Railways , abbreviated as IR , is a departmental undertaking of Government of India, which owns and operates most of India's rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India....
and select overseas customers. It was commissioned in 1984 to manufacture wheels and axles for the Indian Railways. The plant has many unique and modern features incorporating state of art development in technology and designs. For example, the civil engineering structures are planned on with modern architectural concepts; the cast steel technology used in the manufacture of wheels uses the scrap steel collected from Railways own workshops as raw material, the end products (the wheels, axels and wheel sets) are precisely engineered with little scrap for human errors; rigid quality control and latest MIS for production planning and control. It has a planned capacity to manufacture 70,000 wheels of different sizes, 23,000 axles and to assemble 23,000 wheel sets. It employs over 2000 personnel and has an annual turnover of about 82 crores.It is an ISO 9001: 2000 and ISO 14001 certified unit for its business processes. It has claims to the best productivity figures among comparable industries. It has a very high level of automation in its manufacturing facilities and has an enviable information technology set up.