Wednesday, 16 November 2011 The Foresight Division, in cooperation with rail related stakeholders and industry players are exploring possible focus areas for rolling stocks and electrification sub-sector for the local railway industry. This meeting is part of a series of focus groups planned to identify size and strength of Malaysian capability and requirement technology and human capital development as well as the potentials market. The participants were selected from various expertise and company’s core business activities within the railway industry.

For today’s meeting, various major components and sub-systems in rolling stocks and electrification were evaluated and discussed. A multitude of capability gaps identified and strategic issues was outlined during the session. In concert with the Future Rail 2030 initiative, Foresight Division wishes to assess current capabilities, development timeline, and identification of supporting activities especially with regard to the market potential, human capital and technological development. This assessment was accomplished in this focus group meeting through dialogue with the focus group participants/experts. Future rolling stocks and electrification were targeted in areas of electrical systems (e.g. propulsion, APU, current collector and cables), electronics systems (e.g. health monitoring system), bogie and exteriors (e.g. superstructure, end cap), mechatronics (e.g. door system, brake disc/pad), mechanical e.g. (gangway, rubber bellow) and installation of traction power substation as well as power monitoring (e.g. SCADA). A comprehensive list had been produced and distributed to the participants at the end of the focus group meeting.

The organising committee thanks to the participants for their attendance. The details of the focus group outcome will be emailed once consolidation works completed.