The error implies a redesign that can imply a delay in manufacturingWork is being achieved with CAF in order that the design part can finish this summer time “No practice had but been manufactured”, he indicated in a press release
The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (Mitma) needed to make clear this Sunday that the error within the new trains for Asturias and Cantabria has not concerned any public spending and that what the error implies is a redesign that supposes a delay within the manufacturing.
In addition, an inside audit of the method has been commissioned and an try can be made to attenuate the delay within the supply of the trains, they’ve acknowledged. At the second, work is being achieved with CAF in order that the design part will be accomplished this summer time and thus the manufacturing time is subsequently accelerated.
Through a press release from the Ministry they’ve defined that the error within the definition of the sizing of the practice was nonetheless detected within the design part, “with which no practice had but been manufactured and no public expense has been produced or incurred By this example”.
The issues have been detected when the method was nonetheless in essentially the most preliminary levels of the design part, it had not even been developed sufficient to have a definition on paper’, they defined, including that it has not been produced no expense for the manufacture of trains.
The Ministry has needed to element that because the manufacture of a practice is awarded till the primary one is able to flow into on the tracks, the method goes by means of a sequence of phases. The first is the design part, wherein the producer defines what the practice can be like ‘on paper’, considering the situations that it should meet in accordance with the road for which it’s manufactured and the options that it’s anticipated to have.
Once the practice has been outlined on paper, a single ‘prototype’ practice is manufactured and the testing part of this prototype begins. These exams are used to confirm that the designed practice complies with all of the technical and security necessities that it should have.
“In these first two phases, it’s regular that changes need to be made to the design, and much more so in line comparable to these with metric gauge, the place there are quite a few singularities. Finally, if the prototype passes the exams satisfactorily, the part begins manufacturing of all of the trains included within the contract”, they defined.
The Ministry has indicated that they’ve carried out the required mechanisms to appropriate the error, “which aren’t speedy since it’s a distinctive state of affairs that requires a ‘customized design’ to ensure that trains can run on metric gauge traces , although the tunnels have smaller dimensions, however with out dropping efficiency”.
To this finish, work is being achieved on the appliance of the ‘comparative technique’ within the design of the practice, which isn’t the norm inside the rules however is justified on this distinctive state of affairs. In addition, a working group led by the Ministry can be created to observe these works, wherein the Government of Cantabria and Asturias has been invited to take part.