Customers

Who we build for, and who we are looking for first.

Railira is pre-launch. We have no customers to name and will not borrow logos. This page says who the product is for, what a design partner commits to, and who we deliberately do not target.

Pre-launch2 to 4 design partnersPaid pilot on one process

Ideal customer

Rolling-stock manufacturers, $500M to $50B+ operating scope

OEM plants building locomotives, high-speed and intercity trainsets, metro, light-rail and commuter cars, passenger coaches and freight wagons; contract manufacturers and subsystem integrators running carbody fabrication, bogie assembly, coating and livery, traction and underframe integration, fit-out and systems integration, and inspection.

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Qualification

What makes a good first plant

The criteria we check, in order.

We look for

  • Sufficient volume, takt and line-stoppage cost to drive clear ROI; rework, downtime and warranty or recall risk are major costs
  • Existing welding and coating robots, PLM and MES, in-line metrology, vision and torque systems with API or OT access for integration
  • An executive mandate to raise first-time-through quality and launch reliability, or cut rework and line stoppage, across a network
  • Willingness to run a paid pilot with a defined rework, line-uptime or first-time-through success metric

We do not target

  • Small low-volume coachbuilder or kit-assembly shops with no robotic or instrumented production scope
  • Plants unwilling to integrate PLM, MES, robot, metrology and torque systems under IP and security controls
  • Buyers seeking a generic horizontal dashboard rather than a system of action
Design partner programme

What the first cohort gets and gives

Two to four plants with one high-value process each, that agree to baseline rework, line uptime and first-time-through from their own records before anything is written.

  1. Shadow mode. We connect read-only to the wedge workflow, observe and measure the baseline from your own records. Nothing is written.
  2. Assist mode. The agent recommends weld-sequence, geometry, coating, torque or sequencing moves and predicts defects and takt risk. Your engineer approves each one. Accuracy and ROI are measured against the signed baseline.
  3. Graduated autonomy. Pre-approved low-risk actions run inside limits with exceptions escalated, if the plant is satisfied with the recommendations. Weld parameters, schedule release and car release stay with named humans.
  4. Conversion. The pilot converts to the Process tier and expands process by process. Design partners get written access terms for telemetry and quality outcomes, and a say in the roadmap.
Who it is for

Built for the people who run the plant

We have no customer quotes to show yet and will not invent any. These are the three roles in a rolling-stock plant we build for, and the problems they bring to the first meeting.

Plant or Manufacturing Director

Owns launch dates, takt, line uptime, rework and cost.

What this person is dealing with today

  • Periodic audits, offline metrology and sampled inspection that let geometry, weld, coating and torque quality drift
  • Line stoppages and takt loss cascading across the build schedule
  • A severe skilled-operator and quality-engineer shortage that cannot staff the launch cadence

Body, Livery or Manufacturing-Engineering Lead

Owns joining and coating processes, carbody geometry strategy, robot programming and process capability.

What this person is dealing with today

  • Carbody shell distortion and fixture drift driving weld-defect scrap and downstream geometry problems
  • Geometry build-up and alignment error costing rework, door and glazing leaks and ride quality
  • Coating contamination, runs and film-thickness faults driving repaint and class-A livery rejects

Quality, STA or Compliance Lead

Owns weld, coating, geometry and torque quality, non-conformance, PPAP, and IRIS / ISO/TS 22163 and TSI, AAR, APTA traceability.

What this person is dealing with today

  • Marriage and coupling misalignment and torque escapes creating safety-critical rework and recall risk
  • Traceability for IRIS and PPAP audits assembled by hand after the fact
  • Carbody fabrication, bogie assembly, coating, fit-out and systems integration siloed and reactive
Segments

Where plants start

Locomotives, high-speed and intercity trainsets, metro and commuter cars, passenger coaches, freight wagons. Most plants pick one process and one wedge, prove the number, then expand.

LocomotivesHeavy structures, high value

Locomotives

Locomotive carbody and underframe shops with large welded structures and propulsion integration. Carbra on the shell line first, where weld rework and geometry escapes are already counted.

High-speed and intercity trainsetsGeometry and ride quality

High-speed and intercity trainsets

Aluminium extrusion shells, tight door-aperture tolerances and ride-quality acceptance. Carbra and Bogira together, with Fitura on the marriage station.

Metro, light rail and commuter carsVariants and cadence

Metro, light rail and commuter cars

Variant-rich, long-cycle lines where a missed bogie or cure window breaks delivery cadence. Taktos on the shift plan, Coatyx on the booth.

Passenger coachesFit-out and livery

Passenger coaches

Interior fit-out, accessibility requirements and class-A livery. Fitura on fit-out and Coatyx on livery, with the conformance record from day one.

Freight wagonsVolume and torque

Freight wagons

High-volume welded structures and running-gear assembly at rate. Carbra and Bogira where the torque and weld records already exist.

Run timeline · scenario

One scenario run, step by step

Every Railira run is an ordered, inspectable sequence. This is run_9b4e27: Car 07 of a 4-car metro consist · shell line B · bogie shop · booth 2 · marriage station. Scenario completes in 10 steps with one approval gate. Shell geometry held inside tolerance after a twin-ranked weld sequence, one heat-input change approved by the shift weld engineer, two torque traces routed to rework before brake test, the livery cure window protected in the sequence, marriage interface inside tolerance, car released with full genealogy.

run_9b4e27 car 07 · 4-car metro consist illustrative scenario SUCCEEDED
  1. 01 ingest.order SUCCEEDED 0.8 s

    Plant Orchestrator · Pulled the work packages for car 07 from MES and PLM: aluminium extrusion shell, EN 15085 weld class per joint, control-plan geometry tolerances, bogie torque specifications, livery recipe and cure window, fit-out and marriage sequence. Locked the approved control-plan envelope for the shift.

  2. 02 takt.sequence SUCCEEDED 41 s

    Line-and-Logistics · Sequenced the shift against live readiness: booth 2 cure window, bogie B-14 readiness, brake-test slot at 13:40, AMR fleet state and kit inventory. The plan moves car 07 marriage behind car 06 to keep the cure window and the test slot.

  3. 03 twin.simulate SUCCEEDED 58 s

    Train Twin · Simulated 18 candidate weld sequences for the roof-to-sidewall joints on the as-built twin and ranked them on predicted distortion, door-aperture geometry and heat input. Sequence #6 keeps the aperture inside tolerance with 2% less heat input than the standing sequence.

  4. 04 weld.sequence SUCCEEDED 3 m 12 s

    Weld-and-Structure · Recommended sequence #6 and the matching clamping plan to the shell line. Seam vision and laser-tracker geometry confirmed the roof-to-sidewall joints inside the control-plan tolerance on the first four seams.

  5. 05 approve.human APPROVAL 52 s

    Plant Orchestrator · Sequence #6 lowers heat input on the roof joints 2% below the standing weld procedure. Heat-input changes stay with a named engineer, so the step was held for the shift weld engineer and approved at 06:12:44 with the twin evidence attached.

  6. 06 bogie.torque SUCCEEDED continuous

    Bogie-and-Running-Gear · Press-fit curves and torque traces on bogie B-14 read at the station. Two traction-motor mounting traces fell outside the expected profile and were routed to rework before brake test; the remaining safety-critical joints verified to spec.

  7. 07 coat.cure SUCCEEDED continuous

    Coat-and-Livery · Booth 2 humidity and temperature, film thickness and flash time watched through the livery pass. One masking misalignment on the door band flagged by booth vision before the second coat; the cure window held and handed to the sequence as a hard constraint.

  8. 08 marry.align SUCCEEDED 2 m 05 s

    Marry-and-Couple · Carbody and bogie scans compared against target interface geometry before the lift. Fit-out readiness confirmed by Fitout-and-Interior for doors and glazing. Marriage guided inside tolerance; coupler and gangway checks verified and written to the twin.

  9. 09 inspect.fuse SUCCEEDED continuous

    Quality-and-Anomaly · Weld and coating vision, in-line metrology, torque, wiring continuity and brake-test results fused at the edge across the car. Every finding localised to station, work package and shift, with the two torque reworks and the masking flag already closed.

  10. 10 car.release SUCCEEDED 1 m 30 s

    Conformance · Car 07 released: genealogy written (weld records per joint, geometry scans, torque traces, coating recipe and cure record, fit-out checks, marriage interface, approvals, test results) and dispositioned against the control plan and IRIS / ISO/TS 22163 criteria with cited evidence for the quality engineer's sign-off.

Autonomy

Four levels, set per agent and per tool

A rolling-stock plant does not go from manual to unattended in one step. Railira makes the level explicit, auditable and reversible at any time. The first release runs shadow mode, then assist mode, then bounded autonomy on low-risk actions. Weld parameters, schedule release and car release stay with named humans until acceptance is earned.

Autonomy levels and the human role at each
LevelWhat the agent doesWhat the human doesWhere it sits in a pilot
L1 · ShadowReads weld, metrology, torque, coating, wiring, test, robot and MES signals; predicts and recommends; writes nothingRuns the line as today; compares predictions to inspection and engineer outcomesShadow mode; baseline measured from the plant's own records
L2 · AssistProposes weld-sequence, geometry, coating, torque and sequencing moves with evidence, confidence, envelope and rollback pathApproves each move in the review consoleAssist mode; accuracy and ROI proven against the baseline
L3 · BoundedExecutes pre-approved low-risk actions: inspection routing, rework priority, kit feeding, robot path variants and parameter adjustments inside approved boundsApproves heat-input and weld-sequence changes, schedule release and car releaseGraduated autonomy, after audited accuracy and ROI and safety gates
L4 · ScaledSupervised weld-parameter adaptation inside pre-approved control-plan envelopes, across lines and plantsSets the envelope; reviews the shift record and the evaluation resultsPlanned; after IRIS, plant and OEM acceptance is earned
FAQ

Straight answers

The questions plant directors, body and coating engineers and quality leads ask in the first meeting.

Only within an explicit tool allow-list with per-tool rate and magnitude limits, inside the approved control-plan envelope, and only at the autonomy level your plant has set. Design partners start in shadow mode, where Railira writes nothing. Heat-input and weld-sequence changes, schedule release and car release stay with a named approver.

Get started

Apply as a design partner

Tell us the process, the metric and the baseline you would sign. We will tell you honestly whether the wedge fits.