Research and Development occupies priority position in the corporate philosophy of HEI. In fact, in all the 3 plants dedicated for Railways, Research and Development has been made as integral part of the plant functioning. There is a constant endeavor towards process optimization and product development.
HEI’s wagon plant and foundry have major testing and quality control equipments such as:
- Emission spectrometer
- Fluorescence spectrometer
- Magnaflux
- Magnatest
- Ultrasound
- Penetrating liquids
- Tensile and resilience tests
- Sand laboratory
- Microscopes
- Hardness testers
- Radiography
- CNC three-dimensional measurement
- Impact tests
Mechanical/Metallurgical Testings
- Universal Testing Machine
- Hardness Testing Machine
- Equitip Hardness Testing Machine
- Impact Testing Machine
- Cold Chamber
- X-ray radiographic Portable equipment
- Ultrasonic Testing Machine
- Magnetic Particle Tester
- Largefield Metallurgical Microscope
- Broaching Machine
- Broaching Machine
- Profile Projector
- 3D Co-Ordinate Measuring Machine
- Dye Penetration
- Ultrasonic Equipment
