Around 50 employees will work in three shifts at the site, where testing of three different vehicle types up to 120m-long can take place simultaneously. The facility enables testing of individual cars before assembly and in-depth testing. Bombardier says this enables faster, more flexible testing, increasing capacity to 600 cars per year.
All data is digitally linked to optimise production and testing, along with processes including logistics and quality management.
The 6590m2 high-tech centre also includes a waterproof testing system, which automatically adapts to the shape of the carbody, and a corner load measurement with a combined four-axle wheel load scale, a test track and a separate customer acceptance hall.
The site was launched in the presence of Saxony’s minister president, Mr Michael Kretschmer, the Canadian ambassador to Germany, Mr Stéphane Dion, state secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Dr Michael Güntner, mayor of Bautzen, Mr Alexander Ahrens, and Saxony state parliament representative, Mr Marko Schiemann.
