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RDSO-assessed platforms — and 200+ inspection certificates

Our platforms are RDSO assessed, and we hold more than 200 inspection certificates issued since. Consignments opened and checked at dispatch, order after order — and machines built so the documents, serials and test evidence are ready before they are asked for.

• RDSO assessed — Hardware approved
• 200+ certificates — Consignments inspected and passed
• Indian Railways — Among our customers
• Made in India — Integrated and manufactured
• Burn-in tested — 24 to 72 hours

The credential

RDSO assessed, and 200+ certificates since

Railway supply runs in two stages. The hardware is assessed by RDSO first, and only then are consignments offered for inspection and certified against it — crate by crate, checked against what was ordered. Our platforms are RDSO assessed, and we hold more than 200 inspection certificates issued since.

The two are worth separating, because they answer different questions. The assessment says the design was examined and accepted. The certificates say it kept being built to that standard, order after order, over years. A vendor can have the first without much of the second; the second is what a buyer is really asking about when they ask whether you have done this before.

What it buys you as a customer is boring and valuable: we already know how the paperwork works. The inspection call, the documents that must travel with the consignment, the serial and firmware records an inspector will ask for, and the difference between a machine that is ready for inspection and one that is merely finished.

• inspection certificates
• burn-in before offer
• warranty as per terms

What is different

Railway procurement asks questions a commercial buyer does not

A commercial buyer asks what the machine does and what it costs. A railway buyer asks those and then keeps going: what it is made of, where it was made, who inspected it, what happens to it in year seven, and whether the identical unit can still be supplied when the first one fails.

Those questions change the build before they change the price. A platform built from whatever was available that quarter cannot answer the traceability question. A configuration that drifts between orders cannot answer the identical-unit question. And a supplier who has never been through an inspection does not know how long the answer takes to assemble.

So the engineering that matters for railway supply is mostly documentation engineering — recorded baselines, stable configurations, named components — and it has to be designed in from the first order rather than reconstructed at the fourth.

Evidence

What a railway tender asks, and what answers it

The questions below recur across railway and PSU tenders. The right-hand column is what we hold, not what we promise to obtain.

• Is the hardware assessed? — What answers it: RDSO assessed — the design examined and accepted before any consignment is offered.
• Has this supplier been inspected before? — What answers it: More than 200 inspection certificates from consignments offered and passed since.
• Where was it manufactured? — What answers it: Integrated and manufactured in India, at our own facility.
• What is it made of? — What answers it: Named, catalogue components rather than an opaque bill of materials — the traceability question is answerable because the parts are nameable.
• Was it tested before dispatch? — What answers it: 24 to 72 hours of burn-in with CPU, memory and storage stress, thermal checks and a SMART review, per unit.
• Can you supply the same unit again? — What answers it: Configurations are recorded with their firmware baseline, so the fourth unit matches the first three.
• Who supports it, and for how long? — What answers it: Warranty 1 to 5 years as per the terms finalised, with next-business-day on-site response in the major cities and remote support elsewhere.
• Is the quality system documented? — What answers it: ISO 9001 quality management, with BIS and EMI/EMC among the certifications on the compliance page.

The estate

From the zonal office to the trackside cabinet

Railway deployments are rarely one machine in one room. They are several classes of machine in several kinds of place, and the difference between them is environmental as much as technical.

• Data centre and zonal offices — Rack servers for the applications a zone runs — ticketing back-ends, asset and maintenance systems, file and directory services.
• Stations and yards — Surveillance recording and video analytics platforms, sized for camera count and retention rather than for peak compute.
• Wayside and trackside — Industrial and edge platforms for cabinets without air conditioning, where the ambient range and the dust are the specification.
• Control rooms — Workstations and display walls, specified for continuous operation rather than for a working day.

Built for the inspection

What railway supply changes about a build

• Built ready for inspection — The documents, serial records and firmware baseline that travel with a consignment are produced as part of the build rather than gathered afterwards.
• Burn-in before it is offered — A unit that fails on an inspector's bench has failed twice — so it is stressed, thermally checked and SMART-reviewed here first.
• Configurations that hold — A recorded baseline means a repeat order is the same machine, which is what makes a spares plan and an inspection history worth anything.
• Spares planned with the order — For an estate that will run for years across many sites, the spares question is asked at specification rather than at the first failure.
• Made in India — Integrated and manufactured here, which is the answer to the origin question and increasingly the one that carries weight in evaluation.
• Nationwide, honestly stated — On-site assistance in the major cities, remote support elsewhere, and on-site cover further afield arranged with the contract.

Straight answers

Certificates, GeM and multi-site rollouts

• What does RDSO assessed mean here? — Answer: The hardware was examined and accepted by RDSO before consignments were offered against it. The certificates follow the assessment rather than replacing it.
• What exactly do the 200+ certificates cover? — Answer: Consignments offered for inspection and passed. Each covers the units in that consignment — a supply record built over years on top of the assessment.
• Do you supply through GeM? — Answer: Yes. GeM registration is on the certifications page along with the rest of the compliance record.
• Can you meet a Make-in-India local-content requirement? — Answer: The machines are integrated and manufactured in India and the components are nameable, which is what a local-content declaration has to be built from. The specific percentage is assessed per configuration, because it depends on what is in it.
• Can you handle a multi-site rollout? — Answer: Yes, and the part that decides whether it goes well is the configuration baseline rather than the logistics — identical units, recorded, so site forty matches site one.
• Who does the inspection? — Answer: The inspecting authority named in the tender. Our part is to have the machine, the paperwork and the test evidence ready when they arrive.

Across the network

Three classes of machine, three kinds of place

Three classes of machine, three kinds of place.

• 2U rack servers — The data-centre workhorse — dual socket, NVMe and SAS tiers, redundant power.
• Surveillance servers — Recording, analytics and face recognition platforms for stations and yards.
• Industrial and edge — Fanless platforms for cabinets where the ambient range is the specification.