However, the DMRC desires to integrate all of them through a digital platform. At present, several stand-alone solutions are already available at the equipment and system levels, the officials said. The work on the Super-SCADA system is an important step in this regard. The DMRC also has an ambitious plan to go digital for all its maintenance needs. Since the majority of metro organisations wish to outsource train driving activity, easy availability of driving simulators will help create a large pool of skilled manpower that may even feed the global requirement, it added. This product will have utility in other metros and railways. It will be scalable to meet future requirements. The training system will have "far superior features" than those available today. This will enhance the flexibility of the training system and result in major cost saving for the DMRC, the statement said.
#Metro train simulator software
The RSDTS being developed indigenously allows the same core software to be utilised for creating different combinations of rolling stock, signalling and line profiles, by merely changing the input data files, along with minor hardware changes in the driving desk, if so required. It is difficult and cost prohibitive to make any changes at a later date, the officials said. Also, the designs available with the DMRC so far are suitable for use with a single type of rolling stock and signalling and line profiles envisaged at the design stage. So far, this product was being imported by the DMRC from foreign original equipment manufacturers (OEM) at a high cost. This will be the first indigenously developed universal train driving simulator that can be suitably modified for any metro system or railways, the Delhi Metro said. This system will also be used for evaluating the driving skills of a working train operator, which is done periodically for safety considerations, it said.
#Metro train simulator drivers
In pursuance of the Government of India's ‘Make in India’ initiative, the DMRC and the BEL had signed an MoU in September last year with the objective to develop the RSDTS that will be useful for training drivers of metro and railway trains.