Wabtec Corporation inaugurated global engineering lab at Bengaluru to enable rail component design and performance. The new facility is Wabtec’s largest lab in India and adds to the company’s growing engineering presence in the country. This engineering lab has a 30,000-square-foot test lab area and 12,000 square feet for an operations center and office space. The facility houses more than 30 complex mechanical, electrical and propulsion related custom built test rigs. The objective of the facility is to characterize the performance, understand the failures, predict the service life of components, and validate design improvements. Wabtec is planning to relocate and add test rigs to the new facility over the next three months. Some of the test equipment, such as the Resonance Type 1500 KN Fatigue rig, are unique and one of its kind in India. Engineers across the globe will leverage these labs for establishing dynamic characterization, comparing physical and virtual test results, component validations and development work.